Brawl over spilled punch at kindergarten graduation ceremony in Cleveland results in 8 arrests

[NaturalHigh]

Brawl over spilled punch at kindergarten graduation ceremony in Cleveland results in 8 arrests


CLEVELAND — A brawl that started over spilled punch at a kindergarten graduation ceremony Friday resulted in the arrest of eight people, authorities said. Police were called when one participant pulled out a pipe and another a hammer.

Two teenage girls apparently started hitting each other at Michael R. White Elementary School, and their families joined in, Cleveland police Cmdr. Wayne Drummond said. The fight involved adults and minors, he said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/spectators-brawl-at-kindergarten-graduation-in-cleveland-police-say-8-arrested/2013/05/31/bdb34f34-ca11-11e2-9cd9-3b9a22a4000a_story.html

I honestly believe that our society is devolving. Who on earth wants to get in a fight at a kindergarten ceremony?

[longship]

1. Who? Do you mean other than the dude who poured the vodka in the punch?

I mean, it is just like all the graduation parties humans have ever known. Spilling the punch is a horrible thing. It's alcohol abuse.

[FarCenter]

2. We're pretty much in a steady state

I was just reading microfilms of a local newspaper from the late 1800s. Lots of fights, brawls, and drunken mayhem.

[WCGreen]

3. Hey, you think that's sumthin'

you should've seen the epic battle when them Lithuanians took umbrage from unkind remarks made by the pollacks over which way the cabbage went around the ghumpki...

Now that was sumthin'..

[NaturalHigh]

4. Good stuff, WCGreen.

The Eastern Cabbage incident.

[TheMadMonk]

9. Excuse me? Pollack? /nt

[WCGreen]

11. I think that is what people call us....

[lunasun]

5. kindergarten graduation ceremony?

[Bay Boy]

6. It seems to have developed since my kids went to school...

...the only graduation ceremony they had was for high school and then college.

Now they are having ceremonies for just about every grade. Seem silly to me.

[tblue]

7. Maybe somebody yelled, "PUNCH!"

And somebody else took it literally.

A fight about punch is dumb and almost funny. I'm just glad no one pulled out a gun.

[NaturalHigh]

8. I never thought about that!

That would have made an even better story.

[0rganism]

10. "kindergarten graduation ceremony" - is that a thing?

really?

[MineralMan]

12. It is. My niece's and nephew's kids

all had them. Very strange thing, in my opinion. Photos on Facebook, some expensive clothing for the kiddies. The works. It didn't make any sense to me at all.

[NoPasaran]

13. When keepin' it real goes bad