UK: Man arrested for punching five-day-old baby in Tesco after mistaking her for a toy doll - Polidicks

[IMG]https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2016/09/07/10/amy-duckers-baby.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]A man is under arrest after allegedly punching a baby in a supermarket, police said. Elsie Rose, just five days old, was on her first outing with her parents, Amy Duckers and Lewis Temple, and her sister, Libby, seven, when she was hit at the Tesco store in Baguley, Greater Manchester, on Monday. The baby, weighing 6lb 12oz, was taken to hospital and monitored overnight but is not believed to have been seriously injured. Police have arrested a 63-year-old man on suspicion of assault. Duckers was showing her new daughter off to friends and neighbours in the shop at the time. It is then alleged that a man came over and punched the baby, leaving a “very big fist mark” on her forehead, according to Duckers. The “mortified” parents called security. A witness said the man apologised and said he thought the baby was a doll.[/QUOTE] Sources: [URL="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/man-arrested-punching-baby-tesco-a-toy-doll-five-days-old-manchester-a7229566.html"]The Independent[/URL] [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/07/man-arrested-after-five-day-old-baby-punched-supermarket-tesco"]The Guardian[/URL]

Facepunching a baby doll in someone else's hands makes more sense, yeah.

[QUOTE=Coment;51015106]Facepunching a baby doll in someone else's hands makes more sense, yeah.[/QUOTE] Right? Like, okay, you thought it was a doll. Your first reaction was to punch it, though? I have special need clients that come to my work sometimes and sometimes they have baby dolls with them. I would never, ever punch one. I smell mental illness.

He's lucky the parents didn't tear him limb from limb. There's no way I would've just stood by and called the cops if someone assaulted my kid, let alone if said kid was a newborn infant.

[QUOTE=archangel125;51015159]He's lucky the parents didn't tear him limb from limb. There's no way I would've just stood by and called the cops if someone assaulted my kid, let alone if said kid was a newborn infant.[/QUOTE] 63 year old man so they were likely worried about his mental state as well

He probably just wanted to fuck about and be funny. Didn't exactly work out, at least the baby is ok thiugh.

Rather fitting that OP's avatar is the exact same face I had when reading this.

[QUOTE=SirJon;51015321]He probably just wanted to fuck about and be funny. Didn't exactly work out, at least the baby is ok thiugh.[/QUOTE] Don't know of anyone let alone a 63 year old that thinks randomly knuckle-fucking someone's "toy baby" constitutes as being funny.

[QUOTE=spekter;51015504]Don't know of anyone let alone a 63 year old that thinks randomly knuckle-fucking someone's "toy baby" constitutes as being funny.[/QUOTE] Idk that's pretty fucking hilarious to me

[QUOTE=Coment;51015106]Facepunching[/QUOTE] Heh.

Stupid old cunt is lucky he didn't get knocked flat on his ass.

Happened a block over from my house, it's not a great place, cheap council housing, quite a few druggies and before that tesco was there it was a derelict pub used by crack addicts. Guy obviously has issues though, why would you punch something randomly anyway? Is that anybodies first reaction?? Huh what's tha- PUNCH

Maybe he thought the couple was committing fraud by trying to pass a doll off as a baby, so he was going to expose them by punching it in the face. He meant well.

[QUOTE=usaokay;51016822]Why would you punch anything in a grocery?[/QUOTE] Clearly you have not worked in a grocery store. The one I worked at had to put up signs telling the employees to stop punching holes into boxes. I don't know why it happens, but sometimes people are possessed to hit the products.

What a dumbass. At least the kid is ok. What makes someone think about doing shit like this? Even if the baby somehow was a doll it still isn't right to damage someone's property.