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A disgusting scene played out at a baseball game in Miami last week that shows everything wrong with America today. A greedy woman stole a home run ball from a young boy on his birthday, proving that common decency is dead in this country.
Here’s what happened at the Phillies game on September 5th. Harrison Bader smacked a home run into the stands where dad Drew Feltwell caught it fair and square. Like any good father, he handed that ball to his son Lincoln who was celebrating his birthday.
But then came the villain of this story. A nasty woman marched over to this family and started screaming that she deserved the ball because she “saw it first.” She got right in the father’s face and wouldn’t back down until he gave up his son’s prize.
The dad made a tough choice to avoid a bigger scene. He took the ball out of his boy’s glove and handed it to this bully just to make her go away. The whole stadium watched in horror as this woman walked off with a kid’s birthday present.
The internet exploded with rage and dubbed her Phillies Karen. Americans were sick of watching another entitled person steal joy from a child. This is exactly the kind of selfish behavior that’s destroying our culture.
Some innocent people got wrongly blamed online before the truth came out. A Red Sox fan named Cheryl Richardson-Wagner had to defend herself on Facebook after trolls attacked her. Even a New Jersey school district got dragged into the mess.
This story shows what happens when parents don’t teach their kids basic respect. The real Phillies Karen learned she could bully her way to getting what she wants. Now the whole country knows her as the woman who steals from children.
Every parent should use this as a teaching moment with their kids. Show them the right way to act and the wrong way to act. Be like Drew Feltwell who kept his cool, not like the Karen who threw a tantrum to get her way.
