Man attacks son with sword for not doing chores, police say

[Liberal_in_LA]

comments after article, folks are attacking the son for being lazy

Man attacks son with sword for not doing chores, police say

A Ventura man was arrested Sunday after police said he attacked his 18-year-old son with a sword, accusing him of being lazy and not doing chores around the house.

Antonio Gutierrez, 43, was in a heated argument with his son, John, when he picked up a 4-foot-long sword, police said. The son tried to use his hands to defend himself, police said, but his hand was lacerated by the blade and he bled profusely.

When officers arrived at the family's residence, the father had left, police said, but he returned several hours later and was arrested and booked on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/10/police-say-ventura-man-attack-son-with-sword-for-not-doing-chores.html

[ret5hd]

1. lucky he wasn't turned into dad-kabob.

[Ezlivin]

2. Didn't he have a gun?

Have our standards dropped so low that we're using swords?

This is the U.S. fuckin' A.

Man up and get a proper weapon. Your kids will respect you and the chores will get done.

[KamaAina]

3. Seen in the window of an antique sword dealer in the French Quarter:

"Buy swords. There's no waiting period!" :rofl:

[gratuitous]

9. Precisely

If there had been a gun available, those chores would have gotten the hell done then, boy. Or at the very least, both father and son could have been put in new situations where chores would no longer have been a concern for either of them. A gun would have solved this whole problem very efficiently, if not neatly.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. "I toldeth him verily: Forsooth! Worketh thou not, Huzzah! Thouest plowshare shalt become a sword!"

Mr. Guitierrez was heard to utter a string of "Forsooth!"s and "Huzzah"s as he was led away.

[Kennah]

5. I would unrec this for being in the wrong forum, but we don't have a sword forum

[JVS]

6. Smite the foul wastrel!

[Warpy]

7. Very quaint of him

However, if there had been a gun handy, the kid or his father would be dead. Maybe both, considering the number of dads who have killed their kids and then killed themselves lately.

Yes, violent people will always turn to other means to express murderous rage. However, other means are more intimate and more difficult to inflict fatality.

So I'll join in the huzzahs for the honest man smiting that foul wastrel of a son. It was counterproductive since the son's hand will keep him from chores for some time, but a smack on the bottom with the flat blade of a broadsword has cured many a ne'er do well of idleness.

[Codeine]

8. +5 Choreblade nt

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. did you even read the article?

Definitely no more than a +2.

[lumberjack_jeff]

12. Heh. The +0 "you can't make me armor" was inadequate. n/t

[XemaSab]

11. Whatever happened to pistols at dawn?

:(

[Javaman]

13. Not everyone is an early riser.

it's now swords at 3.

[XemaSab]

17. Maybe if the kid wasn't an idler

then they could have met with pistols at dawn like civilized gentlemen.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

14. That young man is lucky that it

wasn't a Hatori Hanzo sword.






.

[edbermac]

15. Geez, Sheriff Andy never pulled a gun on Opie when he got out of line.

What is going on in this world?

[thelordofhell]

16. Spare the hand, stab the child

[Enrique]

18. My name is Antonio Gutierrez

you didn't take out the trash. Prepare to die!

[Obamanaut]

19. California. yup. nt

[AverageJoe90]

20. Damn fucking prick.........

Just goes to show you there's bad apples in every community..........ethnic or otherwise.
Hope John recovers okay, though.

[angstlessk]

21. Good thing the son didn't do chore #7 - Sharpen the sword, or it could have been a lot worse.

Comment by David Styler · Art Director at The Richards Group

too funny!