Two employees of a New Jersey day-care centre have been arrested after setting up ‘Fight Club’-style brawls between the toddlers they were looking after, then sharing the footage on Snapchat.
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Erica Kenny, 22, and Chanese White, 27, were charged for arranging the fights between kids aged 4-6 at the Lightbridge Academy in Crandford.
Prosecutors said:
Approximately a dozen boys and girls at the day-care center can be seen in the video clips shoving each other to the ground and attempting to strike each other.
The footage shown in court showed one-on-one battles as well as Royal Rumble-style free-for-alls, which were all apparently inspired by Fight Club.
In the video clips, Kenny can be heard referencing the activity as ‘Fight Club’ – quoting from the book and movie of the same name in encouraging the children to engage each other physically.
Both Kenny and White have been fired.
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It seems the first rule of Fight Club also applies to Toddler Fight Club, that being – don’t talk about Toddler Fight Club. Staff at they day-care advised parents to keep away from reporters to not discuss the news with anyone.
One mum blatantly broke the rules when she told a news crew:
It’s making me freak out. I am concerned. I’m shocked and disgusted.
Maybe a better rule for these morons would have been don’t put the videos of our Toddler Fight Club online for the world to see? Or maybe just don’t start up a Toddler Fight Club at all. I mean yeah it sounds like a fun idea in theory to get a bunch of 4 year olds to fight each other but it should dawn on you immediately afterwards that it’s actually not a great idea at all.
On the other hand, maybe Toddler Fight Club would help kids become thicker-skinned and just generally tougher? We all know bullying is at all time high these days , especially for teenagers on the Internet. So if you teach kids to squash their beef via fist fight from ages 4-6 maybe that will eventually eradicate the effects of bullying in later life? Just a thought.
For the real thing – check out this raw footage of a New Zealand jail fight club.
