School-age kids sometimes do and say stupid things, and while it is usually innocent, they do need to get called out on it, so they can grow up and stop acting like that.

What would you do if a high-school-aged kid made comments to your young daughter that implied he was a kidnapper, but he was obviously joking?

That is what happened to the family in this story, so the dad confronted him, and when the kid started swearing at him, he called the cops, but some people are saying that this was an overreaction.

AITAH for calling the police on a senior in high school?

I (32M) and my Fiance(31F) are in agreement of being in the right here, but some people are saying I was in the wrong for my actions.

Wow, what happened at the store?

My fiancé and our daughter (8 y/o)(not biological, but I still see her as my daughter) went to the store while I was cooking dinner for the family.

After they came back from the store, they were distraught saying “that guy is lucky you weren’t at the store with us”.

I hope this person was just joking, but that really isn’t funny.

After asking what happened, they told me that they were walking back to the car after shopping, and as they were loading groceries, someone around 17-19 years old leaned out of his car, and yelled at our kid “hey, kid! Come to my car, I have some candy and a puppy for you! You just gotta hop in!”.

After hearing that, I grabbed my keys to talk to management about calling the cops about this. When I arrived, the person who said this was still in the store (my fiancé told me which car it was).

They need to learn their lesson.

I walked up to the car and as calm as I could, asked one of the kids in there “was that you that told my daughter you have candy and a puppy for her?” He said “no, that was my brother. He does stuff like that all the time”.

After going in the store and talking to management about this, the person in question walks up to me.

He is really making a scene about this.

His(assuming) mom, grandma, and sister were there too. Cue the cursing me out, telling me he didn’t do anything, and he wants to “take this outside so he can deal with me like a man”.

I said “listen man. Your own people are saying you said this. You can be honest about this or we can get the police involved. My daughter is 8 years old. Do you see nothing wrong with this??”

He should learn to de-escalate situations.

He said “call the cops, I didn’t do anything and you can’t prove nothing”. So I called them.

As I was on the phone, his sister walks up to me, introducing herself as so. She said her brother does stuff like this all the time, it’s the reason she moved out of that house, and she wanted me to not press any charges.

The brother has a history of these things.

I told her “look.. at this point, I really just want an apology for saying that to my kid”.  She agrees to go talk to her brother.

As the automatic doors open, all I can hear is “this MFer is a jerk and he’s being a giant idiot about this!”

He is clearly not taking this seriously.

Before walking into the store, and sarcastically saying “excuse me sir, I’m sooooo sorry for upsetting you”.

So I say “dude.. I just heard you outside. What was that?” Cue the screaming again, telling me to take this outside, I ignored it.

This might be seen as a waste of the police’s time.

The cops eventually arrive, I give my statement, tell them I don’t want to see him in jail, but I want him to know stuff like this isn’t okay.

Everyone eventually left with no charges being filed. I’ve told this story to a couple people, and some are saying I’m in the wrong for involving the cops and I should have just ignored the whole situation.

AITA?

The kid was an idiot, but I don’t think the police could even do anything about it. This very well may be covered under freedom of speech since there were no obvious threats.

Let’s see what the people in the comments have to say about it.

I agree with this commenter.

Wow, this person thinks it should have gone even further.

Some kids need a little violence to teach them a lesson.

The kid does need some consequences.

This commenter thinks the kid should go to jail.

The kid is an idiot, but there is no need to get the police involved.

If you liked this post, you might want to read this story about a teacher who taught the school’s administration a lesson after they made a sick kid take a final exam.