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i would have freaked out, but i wouldn't have hit the kid. irregardless to whether or not the kid understood what he was doing, i just don't hit little kids. if the person was closer to my age i very well might have beat the crap out of them, but a nine year old? hell no
 
Bottomfeeder;4727667; said:
You have a 7 year old kid a black eye? :screwy:

I woulda screamed at him and thrown his family out of the store... or maybe pay more attention to the customers... how long does it take for a fish to suffocate...?



But yeah if the kid was over 12 I woulda decked him, but 7??
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the LFS i work for is quite big, And I had a tummyache that time. Before I went into the toilet, I saw him holding that pacu in the net. Thinking he was gonna put in it a pail and went to pay for it, plus my tummyache was really bad, I just ignore him.

When i came out from the restroom, he was still there, in his hand a net with the dead pacu in it with a grin on his face. When he saw I was looking at his direction, he quickly tried to put the dead pacu back into the tank and walk away but i hammered him nonetheless.

What causes me to snap was that grin of his while holding onto a dead fish. If he was expressing a worried look that he might have accidently caused the death, I could have been more forgiving and give him a scolding
 
Just don't get arrested :grinno:
That seems like something a 2 year old would do. I have fished since I was 5 and I never had the urge to do something like that... sick kid...
 
Spiritofthesoul;4727696; said:
What causes me to snap was that grin of his while holding onto a dead fish. If he was expressing a worried look that he might have accidently caused the death, I could have been more forgiving and give him a scolding
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kid is probably a future serial killer ...

still wouldn't punch a child ... if you were in the States, you'd probably be at risk of some jail-time ...
 
^not seriel killer acts. dunno why everyone thinks death=seriel killer
 
I was still considered a juvenile at that time, so the most I'll get is a fine. =)
But if the same thing happen now, I won't punch the kid, Im legal age for jail term already. LOL
 
Interesting day.... I had a kid basically tell me I was a prick because we wouldn't sell him a 4" tiger oscar for a 2.5, yes 2.5 gallon tank that he had in his hand and had no intention of buying a heater or filter...... Then he was looking at common plecos and was like yeah BS these things get 2 feet, IVE never seen one that big (like that matters, ignorant moron) - I told him that he should get over himself and that his experiences aren't the end all of everything that exists. He and his friend went and grabbed a 10 gallon and came back 'I want 2 black goldfish' at this point my co-worker and I were tired of dealing with it and were like okay whatever. We told him his fish were going to die and he responded by saying 'Have some faith bro'. At this point I lost it and walked away before I destroyed them both. They left with a 10 gallon tank with a small filter, 2 small black moors, and no water conditioner. You just can't get through to some people. At least we saved the oscar ;\
 
Okay, I've got two.

First, when I first got my tank and was still very new and stupid to how to raise fish, and more importantly, keep them alive, I was in my local Petsmart. The young girl working in the fish section told me that cycling a tank was a myth, and just a way for the mfrs to make money selling products and chemicals. She didn't believe in it and told me to just fill my tank with water, turn on the filter, add conditioner and chemicals to set the ph and block the ammonia, and to start adding fish right away! Just make sure to only add two at a time every two days and I'd be fine. And if any of them died, to bring them back and they'd exchange them for the 14 day period they offer on each fish.:confused: Needless to say I didn't know hardly anything about fish back then, but I still knew enough to know she was an idiot.
I also feel I must add that I never saw that girl in there again, and since then I've found that a couple in there that really DO know what they are doing. So there are some out there at the Petsmarts that know what they are doing, just very few!

Second one was from last night. I was back in Petsmart again checking out their stock and overheard a lady come in and ask the girl working there what their most 'hardy' fish was. When asked what she was looking for, what size tank, etc.. The lady explained that she wanted to buy her son-in-law a Xmas gift. She had no idea how to keep fish, but he did and she wanted to suprise him. She started to explain how she saw a tv show at some time about how fish were frozen in ice, then came back once thawed??:WTF: So she was wanting to get some to give for a present and was planning on freezing them so her son could have them on Xmas morning???? I REALLY wish I could've taken a picture of the look on the employees face, it was classic. I couldn't help it and started laughing. Thankfully the employee, very diplomatically I might add, explained that th fish wouldn't survive and she would be better off buying him a gift certificate. I had to walk off at that point cause the customer was scowling at me cause I was still laughing.
 
LMAO!!!! If a customer came up to me and said that while I was working I might have died
 
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