Mom Charged with 2 Misdemeanors: telling daughter to hit opponent

[MikePal]

This story tickled my funny bone...as a Hockey Dad back in the day a can assure you, me and most other Dads would have been in jail a long time. HaHa.

A mother has been charged with two misdemeanors after allegedly being caught on video yelling at her daughter to hit an opposing player, which she did, during a youth basketball game in Garden Grove, California.

The Orange County District Attorney's Office announced Thursday that Latira Shonty Hunt, 44, is facing one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and one misdemeanor count of battery. If convicted, she faces up to one year in an Orange County jail.

read more: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/mother-cha...221438584.html

[Sharon]

Oh those women, they are always a problem.

[smitty55]

It's California, no surprise from that state.

[MikePal]

Oh those women, they are always a problem.

I was going to add..."and Hockey Mom's" ...but unless you've seen the savagery of a Mom hollering at the kid who has hit her baby...you'd never have believed me.

[js4fn]

I remember playing hockey with a kid when we were 14 he was size of a man always ended up on same team thank god
But his mom had deep raspy voice and went to every hockey game kid name was Dibbly. I can still her screams kill that kid Dibbly get him Dibbly

[gbk]

Actually-while i disagree with many of the Shenanigans coming out from California,just watch the video once more.
Then watch the kid "already"playing dirty earlier by dropping and knocking off the other girl-then smacking her in full swing.

I do not belive ,it is allright either.It was not happening in "action",but as a walk by revenge(never mind -for what the girl who was hit was to be "punished" in the first place?)Plus-this is not a "jab"this is a FULL ,mean swing at a walking girl.

Please do not mix hickey with basketball either.

[MikePal]

Please do not mix hickey with basketball either.

Interesting comment...why ??

Are some 'fan' sports more civilized than others? Hockey Mom's worse than Soccer moms, Basketball fans not so much ?

Not challenging, just wondering ...

[gbk]

Interesting comment...why ??

Are some 'fan' sports more civilized than others? Hockey Mom's worse than Soccer moms, Basketball fans not so much ?

Not challenging, just wondering ...

No,not that......... hockey has inherent "culture" and "tradtion" of "implied" and widely accepted violence.
Perhaps the game itself "by design" is conductive to violence.

I am not a big sports fan,but i have yet to come across the "same general opinion "about basketball.

[410001661]

Oh those women, they are always a problem.

Very few thing in life really scare me............ but crazy hockey moms. That right there is one of them.

[410001661]

There are crazies in every sport - even tennis! Both my daughters played competitive hockey and years ago transitioned into rugby (15's and 7's). In rugby, the Ontario 7's team is picked by having regional teams (eastern, western, central) and playing games against each other Ontario and National coach scout the prospects and then picks 12 girls to form the Ontario team to go to the nationals. So needless to say it is pretty competitive and stressful.

I once saw a crazy rugby mom become unhinged and start to scream at my oldest daughter because she straight armed a girl and went in to score a tri (I assumed it was her daughter that was straight armed) but this lady walked right on to the pitch screaming and arms waving!! I thought it was funny while the ref and her husband was trying to get her off the pitch but I the person I felt bad for was her daughter. The girls was fine and that is part of the game. What happens on the pitch stays on the pitch and afterwards all the girls (in all the teams) eat together, sleep together, and train together (classroom, gym and scrimmage).

I think that parents that are too involved take their child's success (winning) this as an extension of their self worth or as a measure of how successful their child will be in life (as silly as that sounds). Oh, and as a side bar the first thing the following day the mom tracked down and apologized to the referee, the coach's (both of them) and to my daughter. Very solid!