cats

Seriously my first thought if I saw this all occurring and my kid came complaining to me about it is I'd just say "well this is how the cat feels"

Truly cannot conceive of any other appropriate response. My kid's an asshole sometimes, better he get gentle lessons now.

This is my favorite answer. I'd argue that he got less than the natural consequences of his actions. In nature, when one assaults another, even with something as harmless as water, it's usually reasonable to interpret it as a threat, the response to which is usually violence. That kid is lucky he didn't get a face full of claws. I've gotten a lot worse from gently touching cats that, as it turned out, didn't want to be touched. Boundaries are important.

I like to imagine she had the basin of water handy in that moment.

Dollars two hundred.

Yes, no 10 year-old ever threw water at a cat.

Can confirm.

I have a robot that clears snow on my driveway (it’s a diy build,). One winter, we were having problems with a couple teenage boys chucking snowballs at cars.

Their dads conspired to teach them a lesson.

They recruited me and S5-SY (the robot, pronounced “Sassy”,).

So they played some mind games to get the kids to think it was their idea to record themselves-live- chucking snowballs at the “defenseless” robot.

In the video, the robot turned to face them, drove itself into the snow bank and turned on its sweeper to give them the worst white wash of their lives.