Gritty Accused of Punching 13 Year Old (UPD: No Criminal Charges to be Pursued)

[Dueling Banjos]

Just laughed for five minutes straight. What’s with the guy in the glasses?

Tough night.

..or Gritty's parole officer.

 

[varano]

Wbat probably actually happend was gritty gave him a hand on the back and now hes hoping for a pay day...

Big time loser move cause gritty is awesome.

 

[Cursed Lemon]

You fools. You tried to strike him down, but he only became more powerful.

 

[Treb]

How much money will they from Flyers?

Hopefully, they get a big fat 0$ from the Flyers.

 

[al secord]

That'll learn 'em. Doing the job his father should have done years earlier.

 

[Stickpucker]

We all live up to our name.

 

[Frank Drebin]

"Punch in the back"... so a tap on the back? Philly should imo pay 50 million to this man right now.

And make him the starting goaltender

 

[Deluded Puck]

Just waiting for the scandal to break out that Iceburgh paid the Father to attempt to ruin Gritty's rep

 

[Dr Pepper]

Just waiting for the scandal to break out that Iceburgh paid the Father to attempt to ruin Gritty's rep

All this story did was further endear Gritty to the hockey world.

And most likely turn the father into a screaming nitwit out for a buck.

Feel bad for the kid who is most likely mortified at this whole debacle.

 

[Frank Drebin]

All this story did was further endear Gritty to the hockey world.

And most likely turn the father into a screaming nitwit out for a buck.

Feel bad for the kid who is most likely mortified at this whole debacle.

Its pretty clear its a manufactured story to do just this. Its well executed, but fake.

I mean, look at the picture.

 

[Avelanche]

Little late to the party, but Zack Kassian wants to know if the 13 year old turtled like Matthew Tkachuk does? Serious question?

He took the punch better then tkachuk

 

[Dr Pepper]

I didn't know I needed it, but now I need to see Gritty in costume in court and the subsequent courtroom sketch.

I believe courtroom sketches are only the norm in Canada, where apparently we still live in the 1800s and cameras haven't been invented yet.

Americans have seemingly evolved to the point where this is allowed, so audio and video is usually readily available for public access.

Maybe someday we'll get there too.

 

[Hivemind]

 

[Pucker Factor 10]

What a world we live in.

I'm not the biggest fan of this constant surveillance.

Yeah, it pretty much really sucks, doesn't it?

 

[Wierzbowski426]

This is too good to be true, and the dad sounds entirely untrustworthy.

Funny though, and if there was a team's mascot I could picture punching a kid it would be Gritty.

 

[zizbuka]

I wouldn't downplay this. The father took his son to a chiropractor, so you KNOW it's serious.

He took him to a 'doctor' who can't diagnose anything, or take x-rays, or really tell if anything is wrong. Hmmm........

 

[Pucker Factor 10]

Philly sports fan history is truly astonishing.

 

[al secord]

How did he know he hit him "as hard as he could?" I think they're underestimating Gritty here.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

I’m gonna laugh so hard when Gritty psyches out children in the future. Like, oh there’s Gritty, go say hi! *Gritty winds back for a haymaker*

 

[BergyTime37]

Who takes kid to a Chiropractor? If he was really hurt they'd have gone straight to the ER, or his physician. Chiropractor a few weeks after the incident? Sounds legit to me

 

[Chrisinroch]

Who takes their 13yo to a chiropractor when they get injured?

 

[Goose]

A police spokesperson said there are no other open, or closed, investigations into alleged assaults by Gritty.

This kid has taught Gritty to leave no witnesses.

 

[Primary Assist]

this reminds me of when Charlie tried to steal the Philly Fanatic's job

 

[Ms Maggie]

Years ago a young guy worked for me who was from Anaheim. In college during summer worked at Disney and played various characters. The stories he told about the abuse from kids and parents were incredible!

 

[doublechili]

I used to have Flyers season tix and my kid got to stand on the blueline with the players for the national anthem one time. I took photos and the Ice Girls kept getting in the way in every single one of them. In a lot of them, it was just Ice Girls and you couldn't even see my kid. I took over 100 photos. And I didn't make a federal case out of it.