{"id":430998,"date":"2010-03-15T14:38:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T18:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003268"},"modified":"2010-03-15T16:17:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T20:17:22","slug":"grandpa-punched-kids-in-head-at-walmart-for-thrill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/430998","title":{"rendered":"Grandpa Punched Kids In Head At Walmart For &#8220;Thrill&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/oldmanwalmart-thumb-165x110-38158.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/api\/diggthis.php?u=http:\/\/digg.com\/business_finance\/Grandpa_Punched_Kids_In_Head_At_Walmart_For_Thrill\" align=\"right\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"82\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"55\"><\/iframe>A $150,000 bond has been set for the 68-year old man accused of punching kids in the back of the head at Walmart while their parents weren&#8217;t looking. <\/p>\n<p>Ralph would put his keys between his knuckles and wack children while their parents were entranced by Walmarts fabulous bargains. He said he did it for &#8220;the thrill&#8221; of getting away with it, and that he&#8217;d been doing it since January. His lawyer say he has mental health issues.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police suspect there have been other incidents that were not reported, likely because parents weren&#8217;t sure what had caused their children to cry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The judge has ordered Ralph to stay out of Walmarts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/live\/content\/local_news\/stories\/2010\/03\/12\/police-retiree-hit-kids-with-his-keys.html?sid=101\">Bond set at $150,000 for accused child-puncher<\/a> [Columbus Dispatch] <em>(Thanks to Michael!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $150,000 bond has been set for the 68-year old man accused of punching kids in the back of the head at Walmart while their parents weren&#8217;t looking. Ralph would put his keys between his knuckles and wack children while their parents were entranced by Walmarts fabulous bargains. He said he did it for &#8220;the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}