By anonymous - 04/06/2014 05:07 - New Zealand - Auckland

Today, in the fitting rooms at work, a 10-year-old kid threw a coat-hanger directly at my face. The kid's father didn't apologise on his behalf, but instead congratulated him on what he called "a wicked shot". FML
I agree, your life sucks 48 013
You deserved it 4 366

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No. No offense, I completely agree that that guy should be a better father and have handled that situation a lot differently, but you do not kick a man in his genitals unless it is self defense when he is attempting to harm you. The sheer pain alone is indescribable, as if someone is pulling out your soul, but the risk of permanent damage is what disgusts me about people who just leisurely decide to kick men in their genitals, it's almost as brutal as saying, "hey just punch her in the crotch really hard," no big deal right??? Like I said I agree the situation could have been handled better but the ONLY situation in which a man deserves ANY attempted harm to his genitals is when it is out of self defense when he is Really trying to harm you. This has to stop, I almost had irreversible damage to my testicles because two assholes decided it would be funny to kick me in my genitals, one a man and one a woman, and I might not have been able to have children ever, which is one of my dreams because I want to be an amazing father and create a life that I can support and help change the world if they want to, and I almost lost that just because two assholes wanted to kick me in the genitals, and no I was not doing anything threatening. This has to stop, people need to realize this is a serious problem, along with many others that there is not a long enough comment to talk about but I felt I needed to address this. I posted this just above but I wanted to make sure you two idiots get it too.

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And when the kid gets older and starts doing the same shit to his dad, the dad will wonder what went wrong.

Pandaboy876 14

I would have thrown the coat hanger back and said "wicked shot" just to see if the dad's reaction was still the same as before.

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The father deserves a wicked shot to his balls for not controlling his brat.

If only he received one a little over ten years and nine months ago...

No. No offense, I completely agree that that guy should be a better father and have handled that situation a lot differently, but you do not kick a man in his genitals unless it is self defense when he is attempting to harm you. The sheer pain alone is indescribable, as if someone is pulling out your soul, but the risk of permanent damage is what disgusts me about people who just leisurely decide to kick men in their genitals, it's almost as brutal as saying, "hey just punch her in the crotch really hard," no big deal right??? Like I said I agree the situation could have been handled better but the ONLY situation in which a man deserves ANY attempted harm to his genitals is when it is out of self defense when he is Really trying to harm you. This has to stop, I almost had irreversible damage to my testicles because two assholes decided it would be funny to kick me in my genitals, one a man and one a woman, and I might not have been able to have children ever, which is one of my dreams because I want to be an amazing father and create a life that I can support and help change the world if they want to, and I almost lost that just because two assholes wanted to kick me in the genitals, and no I was not doing anything threatening. This has to stop, people need to realize this is a serious problem, along with many others that there is not a long enough comment to talk about but I felt I needed to address this. I posted this just above but I wanted to make sure you two idiots get it too.

See comment #10's replies, I disagree and believe people should stop seeing men's genitals as just something to kick, you can cause serious irreversible damage to a man, and the father himself was not directly harming OP, a man only deserves such a thing if he is really trying to harm you directly, not just to make a statement, as bad of a father as he was being the sheer pain alone it causes men and the risk of damaging us is not worth the come back or to make a point. OP's situation sucked and I agree the father could have done a lot better and needs to be taught right from wrong but not through pointless violence, you can't even compare the pain it causes, just like you can't compare the pain of child birth. See the replies to #10's comment above for my full opinion.

#109 screw that! let's bring the pitchforks

??? Are you in favor of my argument or against it, I can't tell. Not being rude, I really can't tell, please tell me if you agree or disagree.

He'll feel differently about that in some years to come when he tries to get a good shot in him with something more deadlier than a hanger...

mattbaker 17

Wish my parents were like that

Was it a head shot? If so I agree with the father.

No, 17, despite OP saying it hit his/her face, we have to assume their face is elsewhere on their body.

I deserve that, next time I won't comment on an FML at 5 am when I'm half asleep. Fail..

schhichick 14
rocker_chick23 27

No, the OP is in New Zealand.

schhichick 14

I was being oblivious and did not look at the location. As soon as I read the word wicked being used as a describing word I just figured it was another New Englander like me who says wicked every other word

you should have kicked the dad in the nuts and said, No, that's a wicked shot.

No. No offense, I completely agree that that guy should be a better father and have handled that situation a lot differently, but you do not kick a man in his genitals unless it is self defense when he is attempting to harm you. The sheer pain alone is indescribable, as if someone is pulling out your soul, but the risk of permanent damage is what disgusts me about people who just leisurely decide to kick men in their genitals, it's almost as brutal as saying, "hey just punch her in the crotch really hard," no big deal right??? Like I said I agree the situation could have been handled better but the ONLY situation in which a man deserves ANY attempted harm to his genitals is when it is out of self defense when he is Really trying to harm you. This has to stop, I almost had irreversible damage to my testicles because two assholes decided it would be funny to kick me in my genitals, one a man and one a woman, and I might not have been able to have children ever, which is one of my dreams because I want to be an amazing father and create a life that I can support and help change the world if they want to, and I almost lost that just because two assholes wanted to kick me in the genitals, and no I was not doing anything threatening. This has to stop, people need to realize this is a serious problem, along with many others that there is not a long enough comment to talk about but I felt I needed to address this. I posted this just above but I wanted to make sure you two idiots get it too.

No, I disagree fully, unless the father was directly trying to harm OP... I posted this above, please read and also see the rest under #10's comment replies: See comment #10's replies, I disagree and believe people should stop seeing men's genitals as just something to kick, you can cause serious irreversible damage to a man, and the father himself was not directly harming OP, a man only deserves such a thing if he is really trying to harm you directly, not just to make a statement, as bad of a father as he was being the sheer pain alone it causes men and the risk of damaging us is not worth the come back or to make a point. OP's situation sucked and I agree the father could have done a lot better and needs to be taught right from wrong but not through pointless violence, you can't even compare the pain it causes, just like you can't compare the pain of child birth. See the replies to #10's comment above for my full opinion.

awildwhisper 30

You're not very good at reading sarcasm and taking jokes are you? FML might not be the right place for you then. This community prides itself on it's horribly awesome and twisted sense of humor.

1) there is no need to get all politically correcting 2) advertising your comments is the saddest thing

It is not about being politically correct, I am just sick of men being unjustly attacked just because we have an extremely sensitive and vulnerable area on our bodies that people like to exploit for stupid laughs when this can be extremely harmful for men and especially as I and I know others as well have been harmed through this when we had literally done nothing wrong. On separate occasions we had been struck in the genitals by women who just did not like us because apparently we were too nice and of course that meant we were creepy although we have girlfriends and are not creeps and only wanted to meet more people and make friends, and they decided to just kick us in the genitals and walk away so as to not deal with us. No one even cared to help us out because they were busy laughing at our extreme pain and possible permanent damage. This is an issue that I believe people should be more aware of and I would like to stop being afraid of having my dream of being a great father taken away from me because some idiot decides it is funny or that I deserve a good kick to balls when I have done nothing wrong, I volunteer to help people and believe in respecting everyone I meet and helping them lead better lives and I promote safety for everyone, both men and women. There are a multidude of safety issues I could address for both men and women but I do not think everyone would care to read a giant essay on my concerns for people's safety when they have done nothing wrong. I could not remember every detail of my previous argument above and was hoping that anyone interested in my opinion would look into reading it and forming their own opinions, I am sorry if this has upset you but I wanted to include the reference for anyone interested, if it does not concern you than leave it be, it is not advertising just referencing a further explanation of my opinion, in my opinion, and I believe everyone is entitled to their own opinions and to disagree with others' opinions. Thank you for your time.

It's not about any of that. See, he deserves it. He totally does. It's not "unjustly attacking men", just this one. If you condone that kind of behavior in your child, you a) deserve some form of pain and b) really shouldn't be allowed to spawn more little devils. Though I understand and hear what you're saying, don't get me wrong. But, well, I think one exception can be made, no? :)

Man, I hate those types of people. So ignorant.

Well you can't blame the dad for supporting his son on improving these special skills. That might come in handy when he ends up is criminal youth facility.

If the father didn't condone that disrespectful behavior in the first place their child may not have ended up in a youth criminal faculty. Yeah, so basically you can blame the father for his lack of parenting skills.

Why did this get so many dislikes? You guys realize that #24 is being sarcastic right?

Scynistr 20

If you weren't in New Zealand I'd have assumed the father was from Boston. "Wicked" FYL though... Some parents are worse than their kids...