You can’t actually make this stuff up. Well, I can’t, anyway. In the latest of a long string of assaults on people who are doing their job, we have… A 17 year old kid who was beaten so badly that he (or she, or they, the article isn’t clear) had to have surgery on his, her, or their jaw and teeth.

Beating up a seventeen year old. Really? What’s next? Punching your grandma? Kicking a cocker spaniel puppy? Possibly a long night of robbing the poor box, and telling the blind that no, really, plaid suits and neon leg warmers are back in fashion?

So, they beat up a seventeen year old. For telling them to wear a mask.

Oh, and where did they do this?

Uhm… I’m a fiction writer. I know you’ll never believe me, if I don’t give you a link.

Yup. They beat up a seventeen year old… at a theme park.

And not just any theme park.

It was Sesame Place. A Sesame Street themed place for children age 3 to 6.

So… not just a seventeen year old. Probably an early childhood education major. Early childhood education majors are literally the human equivalent of a box of puppies.

Oh, the humanity.