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Child on leash dragged through a Verizon store

Posted: 02 Aug 2009, 16:07, by John V.

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Child on leash dragged through a Verizon store

So it's not your typical Sunday when you see a child, almost motionless, being dragged on a leash through a Verizon store. That's exactly what store employees and other shoppers witnessed in a Verizon Wireless store located in Rome, Alabama. The video clearly shows how the woman, Melissa Catherine Smith-Means, aimlessly drags the child across the store. The child had visible marks on his neck from the backpack leash attached to him. Police authorities arrived around 12:30 PM and charged the 37 year old woman for first degree cruelty to children. She currently remains in jail without bail for the incident. It's just shocking to see a grown adult treat a young child like that – especially in a public place.

via TechEBlog

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1. smimi15 posted on 20 Oct 2010, 01:43 0 0

What does this have to do with cell phone news again? Is this now called childabusearena.com? I thought I typed in PhoneArena.com, but I could be wrong.

2. hmcougar09 posted on 02 Aug 2009, 17:21 0 0

Oh get real, you really have no sympathy for that kid?! That's a shame. They were only reporting this on here because it was in a Verizon store. Just chill out man.

3. Rhetoric posted on 02 Aug 2009, 17:29 0 0

Yeah, for real what is up with this news. Don't you guys know smimi15 and myself are too damn cool and above the horrors of our world to show anything but indifference or at best, antipathy towards news posts such as this. Get with it guys, only post completely on topic news posts so as we wont have to filter through things like this. I mean, it is OUR website right smimi15?? /sarcasm off //also, obvious troll is obvious

4. Kiltlifter posted on 02 Aug 2009, 17:35 0 0

What great parenting!

5. vzw fanman posted on 02 Aug 2009, 18:01 0 0

glad i'm not that kid.

6. BigRed83 posted on 02 Aug 2009, 19:10 0 0

I'd like to see her dragged on a leash over an anthill, or near a hornet's nest

10. behold--me posted on 02 Aug 2009, 23:51 0 0

ur real nice

7. ddripp posted on 02 Aug 2009, 19:35 0 0

i feel sorry for that child. but it has to be a VERIZON STUPID customer to do that. verblowzon SUCK!

25. vzw fanman posted on 03 Aug 2009, 19:18 0 0

dude the name verblowzon sucks...someone please make up a better word :-)

8. rawwmc1099 posted on 02 Aug 2009, 22:42 0 0

man...I remember stepping into a verizon wireless store for the first time and that was only a couple days ago , man it didn't feel welcoming...then again no place is welcoming when people don't talk or just stare at you.... AT&T? i guess?? haha

9. YouLostTheGame posted on 02 Aug 2009, 23:16 0 0

Lol! Man that's HORRIBLE! Sometimes with kids you just gotta suck it up and deal with their childish shit. I'll admit sometimes my son makes me wanna grab his neck and shake him like Homer does to Bart, but you just gotta chill and realize what's going on and laugh it off. That's what I've found to be the best thing for me to get around getting too steamed up about my 2 year olds sometimes outlandish behavior.

11. behold--me posted on 02 Aug 2009, 23:52 0 0

good. try and challenge that with a recorded video. what a dumbass......deserves jail...

12. phone333 posted on 02 Aug 2009, 23:55 0 0

Wow ! that Kid really wants Verizon's service. Doesn't wanna leave the store.

13. pureland posted on 03 Aug 2009, 01:39 0 0

Disgusting!!! Such people do not deserve to have children!!!

14. xcalibur posted on 03 Aug 2009, 03:17 0 0

ya'll say poor kid i say poor mom. that kid i can tell is a brat i've seen numerous kid's just lay on the ground because they didn't get their way.

16. Vacuus Dilectio posted on 03 Aug 2009, 08:48 0 0

Kids are kids tho. They don't always make the best choices, but as adults there is no excuse for acting just as childish.

19. Hotzb22 posted on 03 Aug 2009, 10:35 0 0

yup your right poor mom

15. Mo daddy posted on 03 Aug 2009, 07:00 0 0

What a shame for someone to do something like that but now I know what Kind of customers VERIZON has a bunch of idiots

17. Vacuus Dilectio posted on 03 Aug 2009, 08:50 0 0

Man, People are really desperate to start a carrier war in any post lol. This has nothing to do with phones or verizon in general other than it happened in a verizon store. It could have easily happened at Toy's R Us. It in no way reflects on the carrier or it's customers in general.