{"id":712105,"date":"2010-04-08T11:03:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T15:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004285"},"modified":"2010-04-08T11:03:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T15:03:23","slug":"slap-happy-pappy-pleads-guilty-to-punching-kids-at-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/712105","title":{"rendered":"Slap-Happy Pappy Pleads Guilty To Punching Kids At Walmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/slaphappy-thumb-350x236-39072.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>It seems like, oh about three weeks ago that we wrote about the grandfather <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/grandpa-punched-kids-in-head-at-walmart-for-thrill.html\" >who was arrested for punching kids in the head while their parents weren&#8217;t looking<\/a> at an Ohio Walmart. In an update to that story, the slap-happy grandpappy has decided that, because it&#8217;s not a little kid, he won&#8217;t fight the legal system and has pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n<p>According to the plea agreement on the three counts of assault, the 68-year-old kid-puncher was sentenced to five years&#8217; probabtion and fined $150.<\/p>\n<p>For those coming to this story late, the assailant would roam the brightly lit aisles of his local Walmart and &#8212; with a key sticking out from his fist &#8212; punch children in the back of the head all for the &#8220;thrill&#8221; of getting away with it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hQfceRM_lR7xOq4Z7IueqWY2zQOAD9EU05CG4\" >Ohioan sentenced for striking kids in Walmart<\/a> [AP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like, oh about three weeks ago that we wrote about the grandfather who was arrested for punching kids in the head while their parents weren&#8217;t looking at an Ohio Walmart. In an update to that story, the slap-happy grandpappy has decided that, because it&#8217;s not a little kid, he won&#8217;t fight the legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Zfz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}