The Time Patti LaBelle Allegedly Attacked A Toddler With Water

Sounds like a mound of bullshit to me. We're in a bad economy and people will do anything for cash at this point. If Patti wasn't famous would they really be trying to file suit even if the story was true??

Sincerely,
Alana Smithee

Submitted by Echo27 on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 12:10pm.
I'm completely with you, sweetas. I understand people saying that this lady needed to keep her kid in line, but at 18 months, that's a really hard thing to do. Sometimes all you can do is remove the child from the situation. I wonder if people who hold toddlers to impossible standards have ever had one.

Perfect example: I take my 20 month son to story time at the library. Usually he's an angel, but this particular day he was not the one. He squirmed to get out his stroller, so I let him out. When I did that he tried to run all over like a maniac. Mama does not play that, so I put him back in the stroller, which led to major (loud) tears. What did I do? We left. I removed him from the situation because he isn't a rational being at this stage.

I understand that kids act up, but I can't stand when parents don't do their job when they do. Nothing worse than eating in a restaurant with a screaming kid and the parents sit there doing nothing.

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Beautifully said, and well handled by you. It escapes me why this simple solution can't be adhered to by a lot of parents. Especially the restaurant thing. Your kid is screaming and ruining dinner for everyone in the restaurant. And yet you just HAVE to finish your mozzarella sticks, don't you? You can't take the kid outside and get everything to go?

Submitted by IrishFury on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 7:40pm.
There are lunch attendants but they're only interested in getting kids in and out fast.

Anyway, I am taking all pieces of advice to heart and will watch my ass tomorrow.

I won't say anything directly.

LIE TELLER!

No, I really won't.

TRUF HATER!

Ugh, this is so damn hard!!!!
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Let us know how it goes, I'm honestly interested.

Submitted by IrishFury on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 7:22pm.
The teacher does know and she has been told to stop spitting food all over my kid yet did it again yesterday with food. Her teacher has talked to her parents and notes sent home. She doesn't give a rats ass who says what to her. Adults mean nothing to her - she's special. But someone has to try again.

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What a little brat. Have you spoken with this child's parents directly? I know the school has but have you? You may need to threaten them that you're going to take it to a higher power beyond the teacher if it doesn't stop, pronto. I'm talking principal, superintendant, etc.

....team George Clooney.

"I understand people saying that this lady needed to keep her kid in line, but at 18 months, that's a really hard thing to do. Sometimes all you can do is remove the child from the situation."

Agreed - I often remove my kids, if only to spare myself from the agita. We never go out to eat with our kids. Why take the damn risk that we'll shell out money only to have to walk out of the restaurant?

However, if the kid's in the carriage shouting and we've been in line forever to get groceries, I'm staying. Sorry, people. Hurts me as much as it hurts you.

Sarah Smile

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Submitted by mightymoose on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 10:02am.
As a mom of 3 small kids, I've got to call this a simple case of crazy bitch + crazy bitch.

If an 18 month old isn't being watched and someone says "do you know what your kid is doing?" the question is DO YOU? What if the kid is picking his nose and sticking his boogie fingers in an electrical socket (it happens)? I have no idea what the kid was doing, but if Patti was pointing out danger, she just helped your kid. If Patti is overreacting, chalk her up to crazy and move on. Who argues with crazy in front of their kid (answer: only a fellow crazy). Ignore it and add it to the kid's scrapbook because Patti f*cking LaBelle just blessed your kid with the coolest "this one time" stories ever. The kid wasn't traumatized by Patti, the kid was traumatized by a drama queen mom who doesn't know how to ignore the crazy bait. Of course Patti's reaction was ubercrazy, but the mom made it worse every step of the way. Parent 101: Ignore, diffuse, then hire a sitter and go take care of business.

P.S. Patti's Sesame Street version of the ABC song still the best version, don't care how much water she throws.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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I'm completely with you, sweetas. I understand people saying that this lady needed to keep her kid in line, but at 18 months, that's a really hard thing to do. Sometimes all you can do is remove the child from the situation. I wonder if people who hold toddlers to impossible standards have ever had one.

Perfect example: I take my 20 month son to story time at the library. Usually he's an angel, but this particular day he was not the one. He squirmed to get out his stroller, so I let him out. When I did that he tried to run all over like a maniac. Mama does not play that, so I put him back in the stroller, which led to major (loud) tears. What did I do? We left. I removed him from the situation because he isn't a rational being at this stage.

I understand that kids act up, but I can't stand when parents don't do their job when they do. Nothing worse than eating in a restaurant with a screaming kid and the parents sit there doing nothing.

I am not impressed by ANYBODY......including patti labelle and her ilk... but make no mistake - rich people in lobbies in ny with their dopey children are always trouble.

As a mom of 3 small kids, I've got to call this a simple case of crazy bitch + crazy bitch.

If an 18 month old isn't being watched and someone says "do you know what your kid is doing?" the question is DO YOU? What if the kid is picking his nose and sticking his boogie fingers in an electrical socket (it happens)? I have no idea what the kid was doing, but if Patti was pointing out danger, she just helped your kid. If Patti is overreacting, chalk her up to crazy and move on. Who argues with crazy in front of their kid (answer: only a fellow crazy). Ignore it and add it to the kid's scrapbook because Patti f*cking LaBelle just blessed your kid with the coolest "this one time" stories ever. The kid wasn't traumatized by Patti, the kid was traumatized by a drama queen mom who doesn't know how to ignore the crazy bait. Of course Patti's reaction was ubercrazy, but the mom made it worse every step of the way. Parent 101: Ignore, diffuse, then hire a sitter and go take care of business.

P.S. Patti's Sesame Street version of the ABC song still the best version, don't care how much water she throws.

This kid was 18 months old. There is never a need to scream and curse at a child that small. WTF, was he/she is setting fire to her LB luggage? I would put have put a foot straight up Patti's ass, for real.

And for the record, my kids are with me and behaving at all times in public. Why anyone would leave their child unattended in this day and age is beyond me. Just go ahead and hand them over to the child molester/kidnapper and save yourself some time.

At the risk of seeming obsessed....

Apparently, the mom was pregnant at the time. If the pregnancy was visible, that makes PB doubly classy.

Sarah Smile

I dunno. I raised two boys (now 25 and 21).
They were raised to be respectful of other people...and they are. I saw that as part of "good parenting skills". So..fast forward to today...I have ZERO tolerance for kids that are out of control in public. Having said that...yeah...I woulda' knocked out anyone who touched my kids. Meh...guess I'm on the fence with this one. Depends on the situation.

"He said LaBelle chastised Roseanna Monk for letting the toddler take some steps away from the mother as she grappled with some luggage and a car seat in the building's lobby on the afternoon of Nov. 11, 2010."

What a mensch. My response is typically to offer to help the harried parent (cue the "Having a child is a chooooooooooooice" crowd), but I suppose yelling at the mother and then throwing a fit in the child's presence is also a viable solution to the problem.

Sarah Smile

"I'm not surprised that this kid was probably doing something that most kids in earlier generations would have been slapped silly for, nor am I surprised that Patti lost her ish, and good for her. "

You'd slap an eighteen-month-old kid silly? Seriously? Jesus - what is wrong with you people? And, apparently, those slapped silly in generations past handle shit pretty well. See, e.g. crazy bitch Patti LaBelle.

As to what the year-and-a-half-year-old kid was doing to inspire such wrath, if I had to listen to "New Attitude" on the radio constantly, surely Ms. LaBelle can handle being subjected to a not-yet-a-toddler's shenanigans for five seconds.

Sarah Smile

anything to make a dime these days...

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Patti is an old school mama from an era when parents disciplined their kids and didn't get all shit faced when someone pointed out that their kid is doing something wrong. I am on TEAM PATTI. I worked as a teacher and a babysitter while in grad school and I can tell you first hand that these wealthy/rich parents do do SHYT to their kids at all. They let their kids act like complete assholes and no one is ever supposed to say anything. In Patti's time when your kid was acting the fool, you spanked their legs and moved the fuck on. I hate these uber senstive parents nowadays. Little kids today are such twats and it's not even their fault it's these dopey parents....It only makes me think of Alex (from Real Housewives of NY) and her children from hell. MAKE YOUR KIDS BEHAVE!

I hate your baby

xoxox

The war isn't working.

OMG i bet the water stained the mother's shirt and the baby's clothes!!!

SUE patti for the dry cleaning bill also. LOL

i bet the baby is going to be soooooo traumatised by this entire event, in 20 years time it will trigger a mental breakdown or something.

all jokes aside, i dont know the full story here and i get celebs can be cunts.

but ive met sooooo many mothers with their precious guugugugagagas and they let them run around like wild animals at my cafe and i just want to slap the mothers.

and the kids are screaming, throwing shit around, and the mothers are all like "ohh yeah soo scott made me suck his dick and i swallowed..but i spat it out after...hahahaaha..."

i hate those mothers with their precious.

she went itchy gitchi yaya on their 18-month-old

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That's some funny stuff MK, thanks for the laugh

All this from getting some water on the face? Jeebus.

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Can't stand her. Her voice is horrible, the single most deafening screamer ever, subtlety clearly isn't in her vocabulary.

I can imagine her waving her arms around and some of the water splashing out. Then this parasite who was too lazy to control her spawn realizes who she is and decides to turn it into a get rich quick scheme. It's a shame. Patti should have bitch slapped her while wearing that ring in the picture.

Kids are like farts you dont mind your own and most parents think they were the first to give birth. You and your fucking brat do not matter keep that little shit under control or stay at home.

Dotty, are you insane?

Team nobody.

On one hand I hate parents that think we should all bow before their holy little angels that can do no wrong, but on the other hand, PLB sounds like a bitch who needs some water thrown in her face herself.

"Oh Nooo don't go out THERE. What? I tried to warn her." What horrible thing did an 18 month old possibly do to warrant this uptight bitch to act the way she did? Grow up, bitch; its a baby. I don't care who you think you are but try that diva bullshit on my kid and I'll knock you the fuck out.

Is anyone else blown away by the fact that this scene made the child sick?*allegedly*

Gawd, that's like an average day in this house! The parents won't be able to protect their daughter from the Pattis of this world, and if their kid is running free in the lobby of the Trump bldg., it doesn't sound like they're trying to hard to anyway.

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Children should behave in public, but so should adults. LaLaide strikes me as a cunt of epic proportions. Some judge should teach her a lesson or two.

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"Like sands through the hourglass... so are the days of our lives."

Eh, fuck, it wasn't not all that serious--Patti didn't take her earrings off, so you know it was petty shit.

And as a member of the child-free population, I'm on board with the "Control your damn kid when you're out in public, OK?" movement. I really want to carry a water pistol filled with liquid food coloring when I'm out shopping, and when I'm tripping over these unsupervised spawn creating havoc in the aisles, I'll mark 'em with a few squirts of food coloring. Then, when Mama or Papa bitches about it, I can point out that they should be glad that's all I did--a child toucher or child hoarder would have whisked their kids away, never to be seen again.

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"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
--"The Little Prince", Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It looks like the Mom didn't want to discipline her kid so Patti had to take matters into her own hands. How typical. I see a lot of parents who don't want to correct their children and let the kids act like little monsters in public. Patti wasn't going to stand for this kid's bullshit and the Mom answers with "Lady, mind your business" when she complains to her about it? PATHETIC! I hope Patti wins because these people are looking for a pay day. Roseanna is the the one who should be sued for being a horrible parent.

Toddlers NEED to be doused. Every last one of them.

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Everybody involved in this ridiculous lawsuit should be doused with a power hose. That includes the child and Patti's $25 wig.

Oops that video was removed here is the video from the airport

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfbQdxi43J4&feature=player_embedded

Omg I can't believe people are defending her. Mk you dumb slut you forgot to mention this tidbit according to the AP Here is their version He said LaBelle chastised Roseanna Monk for letting the toddler take some steps away from the mother as she grappled with some luggage and a car seat in the building's lobby on the afternoon of Nov. 11, 2010. After Monk scooped up the child and told LaBelle it was none of her business, the singer threw water on them from a bottle she was carrying and then launched into an obscenity-filled tirade, he said.

When the child started wailing, Roseanna Monk made a remark to LaBelle, and the singer charged at her and tried to hit her, Davis said.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PEOPLE_PATTI_LABELLE?SITE=AP&S...

She also ordered an attack to a a cadet who was standing near her expensive luggage and was at speaking on his cellphone unaware to his surroundings and Labelle is counter-suing for this ridiculous reason" In Labelle's countersuit, she claims King bellowed profane and racial slurs at her before he attacked her bodyguards. In addition, she accuses the cadet of being intoxicated, staggering around outside the terminal, screaming obscenities and trying to enter the singer's limousine."

Here is proof that she is a lying bitch with a diava attitude who also happens to be a huge racist:

http://www.singersroom.com/news/7196/VIDEO-Patti-Labelle-Sued-After-Secu...

Grown ass people need to learn how to walk the fuck away.
Walk, bitches.

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The difficult brown?! I think we're all done here. -MK

Team Patti. You decide to sue only after you learn she's been accused of diva antics before? Probably because your shit is wizzeak.
I don't know what the toddler was doing, but working on the Upper East Side, I can only assume the kid was pretty much doing what any unsupervised kid would do - whatever it feels like doing. These parents treat their kids like autonomous individuals. "Do you want to leave your scooter at the coat check? Do you want to take your crayons?" Dipshit, it's a museum, your kid can't ride his scooter, even if "his spirit really wants to".
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"I know that I'm going to be a target, but I'm never going to be a victim". - Justin Bieber

I think everyone behaved badly here.

Whenever some old lady butts into my business (and its always some old lady), I say "Oh thank you for letting me know. I'll take care of that right away". It doesn't happen often because my kids are on a short damn leash and I'm usually the one snapping at them. One time an old lady screamed! at my two year old for trying to catch a pigeon and I told her to simmer down.

But whatever, I think throwing water on another person is totally inappropriate. Unless they are about to murder someone and it's your only weapon. Come on. Just walk away.

Irish Fury -- OMG, I wish your little guy the best of luck. I hope that fucking little bitch taunting him gets hers.

I'm team Patti here. I'm getting sick of letting these little heathens run all over the place, misbehaving & being loud & obnoxious. I was at the store yesterday, browsing around in a corner of the store, and the only way to get out was to go forward with my cart. There's some little fucking kid on the floor playing with a toy and a piece of paper. I asked the kid five times to excuse me & please move and the kid looks at me like I'm insane. I finally told him to move once more and I ran over his paper with my cart. Then this fucking bitch, not his mother, pipes up and says to him, "awww, she ran over your paper" and then the bitch shoots me a sour look, which I returned to her. I'm sick of people thinking these little assholes can walk all over us adults. Listen people -- I don't think your kids are cute nor are they special. Just keep them quiet & out of my way and we won't have any problems, okay? That's all I ask.

Knowing the way the average upper middle class yuppie northeastern parent can turn the other way when their kid acts like a monster, I'm guessing this kid was off tha hook before Patti threatened its very life and limb with the H2O.
I am so sick of these frivolous lawsuits. Come on people - put your time and money into something positive.

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Submitted by CokeyBloke on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 7:51pm.
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What's not to believe? There are too many holes in that story for it to be mostly Patti's fault.

The parents never said what the kid was doing before the incident happened, and it's doubtful that Patti would go out of her way to harass some kid sitting quiet in the corner.

Second, the mother was out of line to say "Mind your own business". To me you can't get anymore rude than that.

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Submitted by IrishFury on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 7:40pm.

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Fury, I have to agree with the rest of the board on this one. Talking directly to the kid will only make you look like the aggressor.

But I'll tell you what will work. March right into the Principal-s office and make it crystal fucking clear if shit doesn't get handled right then and there you'll handle it on the 5 o'clock news.

With all of these poor kids killing themselves left and right after being bullied I'm sure they don't want to take the chance of bad publicity getting out. And don't stop pushing the Principal until that little snot-ball bitch is put in her place.

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"'Those who danced were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.' We hear the music and we still think you're insane, bitch. For the record." [Michael K on Megan Fox]

I cannot believe people are Team Patti here. What the what?!?

See, I'm with MK on this one. If it was true that she threw water in my kid's face, I would of ripped her weave of and shoved it up her ass. It would of looked like a typical Friday night at Richard Gere's house up in there.

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Submitted by Tigerlilly on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 6:49pm.

Women make me sick. There I said it.

Submitted by Team Valtrex on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 6:53pm.

Have you tried them cooked?

I find parents hate it when some stranger points out any failing in their precious children who need to be treated like special snowflakes. So that means they let their kids run around and yell and scream and do whatever they want because they are special children. If any adult in the room dares say anything negative, they consider it some sort of child abuse and if it is a service provider in a resteraunt or some public place, they will most definitely try to get you fired. So no one says anything. I am on Patti's side on this. She has the status to be able to say what everyone else wants to say to these ignorant parents and their children made of spun glass who have never been told "no" in their life.

Go Patti!

There are lunch attendants but they're only interested in getting kids in and out fast.

Anyway, I am taking all pieces of advice to heart and will watch my ass tomorrow.

I won't say anything directly.

LIE TELLER!

No, I really won't.

TRUF HATER!

Ugh, this is so damn hard!!!!
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Patti is old school. She comes from a long line switches to dat ass and don't make me get the ironing cord.

Patti was trying to get to her pad and relax them diva feets when all this broke out. I'm betting that child tried to snatch her last good nerve and we all know Patti wasn't just going to give up that ruby encrusted nerve without a fight.

The one-on-one chat with the child is a bad idea if for no other reason than that the kid could very well later claim that something more occurred. The child could easily claim you threatened her, or even touched her.

People learn manipulation at a very early age.

Yeah leaving the kiddies unattended is just an open invitation and opportunity for some pervert to go touch up the kids. Didnt something gross like that happen in a Sears or Walmart last year? Some freak molested a kid in a store while the parents were shopping in another department. Damn people watch your OWN damn kids.

Any kids acting crazy around me definetly get a talkin to. Remember, it takes a village to raise a child.

Submitted by Mama Bear on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 7:15pm.
Hmmmm. Maybe it's because there are many different departments (as opposed to toy stores). The parent thinks that he or she can do some grocery shopping, or get housewares, while dumping the brats in the toy section to amuse themselves unsupervised.

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