Disrespect at a car show.

I was at a car show a couple years ago where I witnessed a 6 year old boy climb up on a 1932 Packard running board and lean against the spare tire and start kicking his shoe up and down on the running board, denting and scratching it all up, he was wearing dress shoes with hard rubber heals. The owner came running up to the kid, grab him off his car and gently placed him off of the fender. The father came up and started yelling at the guy wanting to know what he was doing with his kid. The guy very nicely explained to this douche bag what his kid did and that he wanted to know why he thought it would be alright for his kid to do what he did. The father grabbed his kid, told the car owner to phuq off and started to walk away. The owner of the vehicle grab the fathers arm and told him he wasn't going anywhere without paying for the damage his kid did. The father told him again to phuq off and yanked his arm away and started to walk off. Since I was a judge at the show the owner of the car saw my judges badge and asked me if I could get one of the host clubs to come over. I said I would do one better and have a cop come too, I knew that there were several police officers walking around the show checking out the cars. I brought back a club member and a police officer, the owner of the vehicle told the cop what had happened, showed him the damage and also was able to tell the cop where the father and kid were. The cop went and got the father and kid, brought them back over to the vehicle and then asked the car owner if he wanted to press charges. The cars owner said that if the father would pay for the damage he wouldn't press charges. The father again told the car owner, in front of the cop, to phuck off. At that point the cop said I guess you'll be pressing charges! He placed the father in handcuffs and got on his radio and called for back up and for CPS. They took the father to jail and the kid was taken by CPS. I found out later that the cars owner had to sue the father in court to get reimbursed for the damages. By the way, the car had just came out of the restoration shop and had had a $35,000 lacquer paint job, it cost $6500 to repair the damage because they had to repaint the front fender, running board and rear fender. Some people just have to learn the hard and expensive way, keep your fricken kids off cars that don't belong to you. My father taught me at a young age to never touch a car at a car show, always lean over to look in engine compartments and to make sure my hands were in my pockets and my belt buckle was covered.

Dan in Silicon Valley