Grown-up Reporter Dunks on Little Lad and Makes Him Cry

I have kids and I'm sure I'd be pissed if someone did this to my kid but....hahahaha this is funny!

oh wow what a man he got one over on a 6 year old...grow up dude

Reminds me of the Chapelles Show skit when he played playstation against that kid with cancer. "In yo Face!!!!"

You're right. That would have been awesome!

It's just part of growing up for the reporter too. Kids will surprise you when you least expect it. You only find out how vulnerable they are after it's too late, sometimes. The kid will probably get over it before the reporter does. The mom wasn't too mad about it either, so that tells you she didn't think it was that big a deal. I would not let a toddler loose around flying basketballs anyway. It doesn't take much to knock a tot on his head.

Pat should feel proud of what a "man" he is, trying to make a little kid feel less of himself, in front of an audience. Not all MEN can do that, obviously little Pat is trying to over compensate. Pat, little man, quit taking out your personal problems on little kids.

The article said the reporter was a bad guy. Everybody goes off on the reporter based on the headline!

If the headline had said: "reporter plays 30 minutes of basketball with kid and thrills him with a dunk and an NBA style reaction" everyone would be saying, "what a cool reporter."

Of course, he is now the victim of poor reporting, so maybe he learned a lesson in the end, anyway, as a reporter, even if what he did WASN'T a poor choice of action.

this was clearly an innocent attempt at having fun. he said at the end that he felt bad, why is everyone giving him such a hard time? I don't think he has anything to feel bad about, it was funny to EVERYONE until the little brat didn't get his way and started crying.....and yes I have kids!

I agree 100%

Hey, Alex. Self-respect and dignity should have been the first thing this reporter learned before he verbally abused this child. It may be funny to you, but I'm not laughing.

SERIOUSLY! I hate that. Learn to take a lose with good sportsmanship. Kids need to learn early to lose with grace, even if their competitor is being rude. I hate it when children are coddled when they lose. A simple "We'll get 'em next time" will suffice. No need to snuggle up and breast feed him. Jeebus.

I teach my kids humility, love,. caring , respect, fun, hard work, and much more, just like my parents and grandparents did. Parents today who allow little kids to run the household, they wear their pants around their ass, hats sideways and make stupid gestures trying to look cool, it embarrasses me, they cant back up anything like we did, screw those kids, and their lame parents, I am tired of trying to explain to them why,,, tired of it, let them become the ditch diggers and wonder why, let em go. I was never told 10 times how to do it....I made it, let them struggle a bit, it is good for them....

To Alex.............I agree. First, we can't even punish our own kids by giving them a good old fashioned swat, and now we're soppose to be careful not to hurt their feelings too?? What kind of generation are we raising anyway?? "WUSSES", who can't take a little tease now and then, and "PRISON INMATES", whose parents were'nt ALLOWED to swat their own kid, when they had it coming!!! THAT'S THE TWO TYPES OF KIDS, THAT ARE GONNA COME OUT OF THIS!!!!

What a punk! Pretty tough talking to LITTLE kids. Bet you can really give it to women too. Bring your trash talk over to a fat old man sometime and then go make a tooth inventory.... after you wake your sorry butt up! Kids gonna grow up and be a soldier defending your sorry hide one day.