Overheard 9yo's conversation

[PrettyCandles]

Walking home from school today, I overheard something ds's friend was telling him, about an encounter the friend had had. Apparently a "teenager" had approached the child while "looking for something in his pocket", which the teenager couldn't find "because there was a hole in his pocket". Then the 'teenager' ran towards the child, arms outstretched (child pulled an angry face).

So far the story worried me a lot. Then the child claimed to have kcicked the teenager and bloodied his nose, at which point the story began to sound like a made-up adventure, rather than an attempted sex attack.

Am I reading too much into this? Or should I report the conversation to the child's mother?

it sound slike it could be made up but it wouldn't hurt to mention to the child's mother what you heard and let her deal with it.

me no understand sorry

Must have been a very short and non-aggressive teenager to be both kicked and punched in the nose by a 9 year old without retaliating.
Sounds lie fantasy to me, brought on by a morbid fear of teenagers.
My son has 9 pockets, mostly with things in. he is unlikely to even notice a child whilst trying to find a specific item.
Go ahead, tell the mother. Maybe the teen is at home, complaining to his mother about being randomly attacked.

The child was acting outthe teenager while describing the encounter. The hand digging deep into the trouser pocket, and the description of the ferreting about and then bringing his hand out with nothing in it, reminded me of how men sometimes play with themselves through their pockets. Bear in mind also, that 9yo oftencannot differentiate between teenagers and adults.

So it did at first sound like a very concerning event.

But, as I said, once the child described hitting the man - well, that's when I began to wonder what exactly this story was.