However, they did set up a proper barrier to avoid any further disappointment.

Well DUH!

A few of you I hope never reproduce. Welt on a little kid over this…good gawd..grow up.

This is America, maybe the kid will get really fat. Fat people are hard to kidnap. Problem solved.

What if the kidnapper lured him with a Twinkie and a couple of Big Macs?

Dave Shay on May 25, 2007 at 2:39 PM

God help us. LMAO…:)

Slipping under a protective rope, he danced all over the sand, ruining the carefully crafted picture.

This has everything: lax controls on entry, asymmetric conflict, even a depopulated interior.

isn’t that proof that the kid is budda?

jummy on May 25, 2007 at 10:33 AM

A deep bow to jummy.

However, the mother should be very embarrassed. I would never let my child loose in such a large crowded place.

This is America, maybe the kid will get really fat. Fat people are hard to kidnap. Problem solved.

What if the kidnapper lured him with a Twinkie and a couple of Big Macs?

Her child is going to be lost someday or kidnapped.

angryamerican on May 25, 2007 at 1:50 PM

This is America, maybe the kid will get really fat. Fat people are hard to kidnap. Problem solved.

Since the sand painting has absolutely no dollar value the only thing that can be done to her is to put her photo in the paper as an example of how to be a bad Mother and embarrass her.

angryamerican on May 25, 2007 at 1:50 PM

Unless they can assign a dollar amount to their labor that they donated. But of course it would be the monks that would have to sue, and I don’t see that happening.

I forgot to say this in regaurds to those saying it was willful distruction. When you were a two year old kid and you saw a bunch of sand on the floor would the first thought in your mind be, Oh look at that masterful blah blah blah. No, it would be, “Sand! Play!”

- The Cat

Her child is going to be lost someday or kidnapped.

angryamerican on May 25, 2007 at 1:50 PM

The video I watched from kansascity.com shows the entire sequence from when the boy and mother first walk by to when the mother reappears and leads him away. He could’ve easily been snatched away in the time that elapsed in between his mother’s two appearances.

Quoting from http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/120315.html

The mother did not report the incident, but a security camera at Union Station captured the moment.

“She summarily picked the child up and boogied,” said Bob Smock, security manager for the station.

Niiiice. Great way to accept responsibility there, lady.

Also, why are the news outlets referring to this as a “dance”? It appears on the video the kid is dragging his feet and deliberately kicking around the sand. A “dance” implies the sand was just getting in the way of his creative energies…. or perhaps there was dance music playing that I just couldn’t hear in the audio capture?

Dave Shay on May 25, 2007 at 1:33 PM

Nice find Dave.

I want that Mother’s photo. She needs to be embarrassed for being such an idiot.

The fact that she is so irresponsible to leave her child like this and then not do the right thing when she realized a sand painting had been ruined is ridiculous.

Since the sand painting has absolutely no dollar value the only thing that can be done to her is to put her photo in the paper as an example of how to be a bad Mother and embarrass her.

Her child is going to be lost someday or kidnapped.

A hand-shaped welt on his ass.

I can’t watch the video because I am at work and don’t know how old the kid is, but I can’t help but ask “where the heck are his parents?!”

I don’t care if it is meant to be impermanent and eventually destroyed, such behavior is rude and disrespectful, doncha think?

The mother did not report the incident, but a security camera at Union Station captured the moment.

“She summarily picked the child up and boogied,” said Bob Smock, security manager for the station.

Niiiice. Great way to accept responsibility there, lady.

Also, why are the news outlets referring to this as a “dance”? It appears on the video the kid is dragging his feet and deliberately kicking around the sand. A “dance” implies the sand was just getting in the way of his creative energies…. or perhaps there was dance music playing that I just couldn’t hear in the audio capture?

I find it hard to believe that at his age the kid hasn’t been told by his parents, teachers, and others to be respectful of other people’s things and treat others the way he would like to be treated.

tyler999 on May 25, 2007 at 11:03 AM

What world are you living in? And you think a teacher would have quoted the Bible? News flash for those saying this kid is old enough, this kid is like 2 maaaybe 3. If you have a mama that doesn’t watch you in public, how much teaching do you think she does in private?

- The Cat

P.S. I wonder if there is a baby daddy in the play here; is HE ever around?

DING-DING-DING!

The transitional, accepting nature of Buddhism (the true religion of peace) makes this less of a big deal to the Monks than us however the parents deserve the humiliation they’re getting for being so rude according to our traditions too.

o you know you’ve reaaaaaally stepped over the line when a monk wants to punch you out–like they do in SE Asia where the Islamists are getting out of control.

Faith1 on May 25, 2007 at 11:06 AM

Nice observation thanks for sharing.

The parent is responsible and this isn’t the first time she’s left her child un-attended. If she is aware of the damge he did, and she starts watching him now, this might prevent a mulit-million dollar search for that kid one day. That’s a pretty good return on a sand painting.

We need to put that child in charge of the federal endowment for the arts.

JayHaw Phrenzie on May 25, 2007 at 10:25 AM

BWAHAHAHAHAA!!!!