Brawl breaks out at Ohio kindergarten graduation

[defacto7]

Source: AP

CLEVELAND (AP) -- A brawl that started over spilled punch at a kindergarten graduation ceremony Friday resulted in the arrest of eight people, authorities said. Police were called when one participant pulled out a pipe and another a hammer.

Two teenage girls apparently started hitting each other at Michael R. White Elementary School, and their families joined in, Cleveland police Cmdr. Wayne Drummond said. The fight involved adults and minors, he said.

"You had adults fighting adults, juvies fighting juvies, and so forth," he said as parents streamed into the building to pick up their children. "You just had a melee here."

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Civility? Kindergarten graduation? It's a crazy world.

[alfredo]

1. Good training for little league.

[Renew Deal]

4. lol

[davsand]

17. Also good training for Church League Softball!

Lyrics:

Chorus 1:
Church League, Softball, Fist Fight
Gettin washed in the blood on a Tuesday night
What would Jesus do, lord he wouldn’t do that
Knock hell outta the preacher with a softball bat


Well the swinging Sheppard’s from the Sheep of the Savoir
were tied with the sourwood church of Christ
An example of some highly unholy behavior
in a game that had already been protested twice
Something unbiblical must have been said
for them to be aimin’ heat at the minister's head
Clockin the clergy ain’t the thing to do
But neither’s the high hard one on the 0-2

Chorus 2:
Church League, Softball, Fist Fight
A body layin’ on the hands ‘neath the left field lights
Knockin out four teeth, gettin a busted lip
Aint exactly my idea of Christian Fellership

Church League, Softball, Fist Fight
Rollin round the pitchers mound it just don’t look right
where the nice people from the church and the Sunday school class
To trade a cup of brotherhood for a can of whoop-ass


Laura

[alfredo]

19. Ha!

[secondvariety]

2. Classy.

[KansDem]

3. We use to see these kinds of scenes in those old Hollywood B-movie Westerns...

You know, when someone in a bar throws a punch and then everyone goes at it.

Two teenage girls apparently started hitting each other at Michael R. White Elementary School, and their families joined in, Cleveland police Cmdr. Wayne Drummond said. The fight involved adults and minors, he said.

Never thought it would happen at a kindergarten graduation ceremony.

[itsrobert]

30. Usually the punch hits the pacifist by accident and he goes on a punching spree

n/t

[Fuddnik]

5. Who brings a pipe and a hammer to a kindergarten graduation?

[Nimajneb Nilknarf]

8. I speculate that a person who was looking for trouble would do that.

I could be mistaken.

[Kolesar]

25. Slingblade...eom

[Gore1FL]

26. I could see using a pipe to get hammered before a kindergarten graduation. n/t

[Buzz Clik]

6. I've had some of my best fist fights at kindergarten graduations.

It's the only reason I go.

[cloudbase]

16. Before or after the open bar? n/t

[GeoWilliam750]

18. Anyone sell tickets?

[zonkers]

7. I think this was actually part of the press junket for "The Purge" an upcoming film.

[muntrv]

9. Looks like some parents failed Kindergarten.

[ReRe]

10. Sometimes...

... assholes all show up at the same place at the same time. This was one of them. Not a good example for the little ones.

[defacto7]

23. It really is sad.

[onehandle]

11. Surely a situation where guns would have sorted the conflict out.

'The only thing that stops a bad guy with a pipe is a good guy with a hammer.'

No. That doesn't have the panoche required. Needs more gun.

[southerncrone]

20. !!!

[longship]

12. Graduation? From Kindergarten?

The concept alone is rubbish. No wonder it results in a brawl.

I want to see a kindergarten defenestration reality TV series. You know, like John Wayne throwing the bad guy through the Saloon window. It ought to be a regular on TLC, formerly called "The Learning Channel", now only in the most Orwellian sense.

[LeftyMom]

24. We had construction paper graduation hats we had made the day before.

I think we also had pixie cups of juice and pretzels or something. That would have been 1985.

Nobody passes up an excuse to take cute pictures of small children.

[roamer65]

13. Up here, we just sit and shake our heads in Michigan.

Ohio.

Must be a bunch of OSU fans. Thug nation.

[B Stieg]

14. Thankfully,

none of these idiots had a gun handy or...

[JBoy]

15. Some people didn't get nap time that day.

[KinMd]

21. Those poor kids dont have a prayer

[defacto7]

22. A bleak future for sure....

Unless those parents get some special ed., fast. Family counseling for then next 17 years may help.

[Javaman]

27. That must have been some kind of crazy punch! nt

[Nimajneb Nilknarf]

28. I see only one real possibility

[Crowman1979]

29. Another reason why abortion should remain legal.

The parents of these kids shouldn't have been having kids in the first place.

[PasadenaTrudy]

31. +1,000! n/t