Man threatens to knock out and drown 14-year-old for fishing at a neighborhood pond

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For Victoria Retana’s 14-year-old son, fishing is not just a hobby. “He lives and breathes it. It’s everything to him. So, every day he has to get his little fix of fishing. It’s like non-negotiable,” Retana said.

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Sounds like a hobby


ETA: after listening, I don't think I would have posted it online or called the cops. Just beat the dude's arse

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If I catch you out here again, I’m going to punch your lights out so hard you knock yourself out,” the man is heard saying in the video. “I’m going to drown you.

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frick this dude.

He better be glad I'm not that kid's dad.

The mom could get it

Yeah that didn't make sense.. He was going to knock himself out because the old dude hit him so hard? Dude, that's just you knocking him out.

And I thought it was a typo but the idiot says it in the video

Who harasses a kid fishing? Stupid.

If that’s my son, I’m calling you into the street and someone’s getting beat down. Probably not me but frick it.

I guessing the kid doesn’t have a dad around. Do that to my son and one of us is getting beat up.

The threat was stupid, but the report doesn’t touch on if the neighborhood pond was public or if place the kid was fishing in the pond was public land or sidewalk. The state parks just answered the question about what age needs a fishing license.

That’s the thing I remember living in a neighborhood with ponds is that sometimes instead of staying right off the public sidewalk kids went onto private property including getting in the way of golfers right near the greens on gold course or onto HOA private property and not living in the the neighborhood that owned the HOA land (or not an area anyone should be regardless of living there or not). While behaving at times some kids would also act like little shits to some of the people living right there and the golfers (parents usually fixed that crap quickly).

Better ways to deal with these situations than to threaten to drown a kid, but in this case it seems like if public and kid was always exactly where he was allowed and should be an arrest or citation would have been made especially in Austin even if just a misdemeanor. It seems like they just looked at video and didn’t investigate or talk to the guy which is strange if kid was always in the right.

-Old man needs his chin turned inside out
-kid is calm and cool as can be, good kid
- mom is an 8, seems chill too, ya I'm digging the mom