Eat TASER, grandma.

Bad calls on both parties.

I can understand him getting a little irate with her, but a tazer? A bit over the top, IMO.

However, she would never be welcome in my house if she threatened to have my child removed from my home by the authorities. That's cause for severing all ties with her. I have a good friend whose wife is of the "no spanking" ilk. She spoke up once when my wife swatted our sons hands for repeatedly reaching for the oven door. She was told in no uncertain terms that she was entitled to an opinion, but she had a chance to raise her own kids and to keep silent about ours.

I've got to wonder what kind of wife he wound up with, having a mother like that.

Cant blame him a bit, I would love to taser my MIL .

Old ladies and tasers. All they need is a midget dressed in leather; then they'll have thier own Spinger show. The old lady does sound like a flaming (no pun intended) lib. He could have done alot worse, he could have hosed her down with OC, then tased her.

He gave the baby a swat on his diapered rear-end to stop him from grabbing electrical wires.

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Grandma sounds like one of those modern "progressive" mother-in-law's. Maybe he swatted the wrong family member.

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Ahem....so who has the problem here? The 7 month old for crawling towards
the exposed electrical wires or Grandma for confronting dad? What would a
7 month old learn from a spanking? "I was crawling in the wrong direction?",
"I was drooling too much?", "I shouldn't wet my diaper?".

If dad is leaving exposed electrical wires around his house with a crawler, it
sounds like dad is an idiot. This is further reinforced by his idiotic reaction to
grandma. Obviously, dad can't plan more than a minute ahead (hence the
sixty second countdown) and the word prevention is not in his vocabulary.

Is it possible that what was meant by 'electrical wires' was a cord of some sort, like the power cord for a lamp? Just wondering because news stories often use exaggerated language to drive home a point.

Also, one cannot completely babyproof a house.

going to buy my mil and her mom flowers today.



They are much better than this lady, my mil don't like guns, when i got one she said "guns are not my way, but this isn't my house" showed it to grandma once, unloaded it in the bedroom before presenting it per etiquette grandma said "what good is a gun without bullets?"



Guess i got lucky

i hear ya

"In this day and age, threatening to take his kids away is a legitimate threat."
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sometimes its not so bad that folks think i'm a lil crazy. most folks would never say that to me. and i can't imagine anyone doing it twice.

Thin Black Line:

I think that they are referring to electrical cords (like for a TV, radio, lamp, etc.) and the associated socket(s).

If I believed someone was really going to take my kids away, I would use any and all available means to stop them.

What this guy did, though, was ridiculous. Now, he made it look like he's someone who is prone to using excessive force. and, he gave someone who was already against him, a huge motive. Plus, he probably upset his wife, who would have been his best witness in his defense.

Not saying his motive wasn't there, but his methods were absolutely foolish. He just gave all the power to his enemy.

Aaron is my partner at work, and want to make a few comments for the sake of clarification. I won't be saying much which isn't in the local media, out of respect for the families privacy, and since he is facing an ongoing court case.

He swatted his son on the bottom while correcting him for trying to reach electrical cords behind the entertainment center.

His wife supports Aaron's choice to swat, his actions, and has come out on television, totally supporting his decision, which he does now regret making, as per a local newspaper article.

I won't say that it was the right thing to do, and I've told him that since the incident. He will suffer consequences for his actions, and he is aware of this. On the same note, no one else was there, and I would prefer to give the presumption of innocence until he is found guilty, or pleas as such.

I give the same corrective swats to my infant son, for the same type of potentially dangerous behavior, and I assume that many of the posters and lurkers here do the same. My family is in agreement with my child-rearing, which is fortunate. I know that Aarons is not, which may have caused a hypesensitivity to the threat of "having his child taken away". Not an excuse, but possibly part of an explanation.

I will say that I disagree with him being charged with Domestic Violence. I belive those legal protections are essential, and the mandatory arrest to seperate the parties, but this has other consequences. If convicted, my understanding is that he loses RKBA. My primary disagreement is based on the fact that Grandmother resides nearly 20 miles from their home, and after this, probably won't have much reason to be around him.

Aaron knows that I don't support what he did, but I think that anyone here would go along with someone sitting in their house, threatening to take their baby away.

Thanks for your consideration,
Nichols747

Thank you for your post, Nichols.

I know it's not politically correct, but there's just something about the thought of a cantankerous, interfering old bat of a mother-in-law on the floor doing the method acting school routine of "bacon in a frying pan" that brings a smile to my face.

Theres only one additional thing that I wanted to add:

He didn't fire the Taser barbs at her, he removed the firing cartridge and used the device in the "Drive Stun" mode, in which it is a contact device, used as an "old school" stun gun.

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I would still have to wonder about someone who felt the need to make a
point to their mother-in-law during a verbal disagreement by resorting
to a stun gun --be it "old school" or whatever.

I'm not saying that grandma didn't jump the gun in her comment, but
"correcting" a baby through physical discipline as opposed to simple
re-direction shows he could use some pointers when it comes to kids.
He could probably do without the pointers from grandma.

But, given the guy's reactions, he needs to think through cause, effect, and
consequences a bit more. But, maybe the use of "old school" tasers in this
family's interactions is not out of the ordinary. There use to be people who
used cattle prods on the mentally il/developmentally delayed years back
until we figured out there was a better way to move people from point A
to point B. Plus having people screaming and soiling themselves only
created more work and stress for everyone.....

Bad situation, he positively made it MUCH,MUCH worse. I feel for the guy and understand his frustration, but spending the day or so in jail SHOULD be enough.
Duct tape would have been my preferred method , but I adore my mother (in law) and will hurt somebody- anybody- that even attempts to harm her.
Poor dude has his hands full, along with some decent legal payments in the near future- most folks don't read between the lines about domestic violence; it means (to me anyways) that if someone annoys you to the point of aggression or even threatening violence of any nature, keep away from them and get a restraining order barring them from being allowed near you.
Most men never understand this basic point of the domestic violence laws, you control your surroundings, refuse to have a PITA around you. I got rid of an ex because she was a real drama queen. Life is too short to put up with crap and losing your temper is self-defeating in many ways.
I am sure things will only get worse in this situation for a short while, but distance is the fella's only hope.

The wife's grandmother, who was visiting, called that child abuse...

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She crossed the line here.

...and said she'd have the child taken away.

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And committed the mother or all F***ups here.

While I wouldn't have used a tazer I would have called the cops and had her thrown out or arrested for tresspassing. Threatening to make a false abuse report to "have the child taken away" is a threat unlike any other. Family or not it is going to be handled in the most final of ways. The cops will be taking you out of my home, a report will be filed that you threatened to make a false report with the goal of having my child/children taken away. And you will be forbidden to see them or myself ever again.

Other than killing or kidnapping the child I can think of nothing worse that someone could possibly do to a parent.

he told her to leave...

Why didn't she get arrested for criminal trespass?

I hate it when they use the words Taser and stun gun interchangably. They are two different devices and about $550 apart in price.
I think the story is pretty funny. Maybe he wanted to show grandma what would happen if the child had grabbed some wires.

I'm confused

My mother in law cooks pretty darn good, Actually better than my wife.... Can I taser my wife kick her out and keep the grandma instead?