Royal guard video kicking child in the way

[DickMabutt73962]

I wasn't born and raised in the UK and am not into the culture of 'tradition' but I don't understand the majority of reactions to this video blaming the parent and saying of the guards 'it's their job'.

Can anyone more enlightened explain to me why this was necessary? As far as I can see the guard is marching, not saving London from attack. I don't see why a side-step wouldn't work. And if this is a register thing then maybe future control of how close members of the public are able to get in their path

www.indy100.com/viral/queen-royal-guard-trampled-kid-tiktok-video-b1983965

As much as I am ever aghast at the historical and lineal birthright
privileges of the supposed ruling classes, the men and women who the public see at such daily events are serving members of the armed forces (clues in the name). A job, like any other where the expectation is that you ideally fulfil the role of that job. Except this job is where you are trained to kill or be killed...for shit money, random leave, and a disjointed family life. I respect the actual soldier who manoeuvred around a, assessed in seconds, possible threat in their professional role, and for their personal safety second.That child, with the help of Mummy and social media, might make a million pounds/likes/subscribers by the time he is 10 on the back of this. That soldier might be killed in his next posting. Respect where it's due to the men and women who let you sleep at night in your bed, with a roof over your head, super fast broadband, freedom of speech, food freely available, heating and hot water. You're already more privileged than the majority of humans on the planet by dint of living in the UK.
British forces deploy in places where you can't begin to imagine the deprivation and human cost.That soldier is more deserving of an OBE et al, for carrying out his job without harming a civilian, who was fannying about unsupervised, than anyone bending the knee for Brenda and Mr Tampon.

The Queens Guard aren’t a tourist attraction. They’re professional soldiers who are doing their duty.

The Coldstream Guards at the Tower of London are performers attracting hundreds of thousands of tourists every year, who couldn't possibly be performing any useful security function in their traditional uniforms, marching in straight lines, never looking left or right or even right under their feet.

What do you imagine would happen, how would it work if they DID react to people getting in their way, taunting, trying to make them deviate path - all things people, both children and adults, routinely do for shits and giggles and stupid tiktok/youtube/facebook videos?

It'd be chaos.

So how about being sensible and putting up barriers so that they can do their incredibly important parading around without risking the life and limb of children who inadvertently get in their way?

Why are they marching through a crowded space, apparently with orders never to deviate from their course?

The irony of your last sentence is too much, honestly you must be being goady on purpose with that line- the child is American aren't they? And yes if you stand in the square there is every chance you will be in the way and should move, people should realise the world doesn't revolve around them, crazy concept I know.

Ah so now stomping on children is extolled as a means of teaching them valuable life lessons.

In the wake of a couple of well-publicised tragedies involving 'discipline' of children in British homes, just wow.

And what has being American got to do with this?

Parents fault 100%

@mathanxiety

What do you imagine would happen, how would it work if they DID react to people getting in their way, taunting, trying to make them deviate path - all things people, both children and adults, routinely do for shits and giggles and stupid tiktok/youtube/facebook videos?

It'd be chaos.

So how about being sensible and putting up barriers so that they can do their incredibly important parading around without risking the life and limb of children who inadvertently get in their way?

Why are they marching through a crowded space, apparently with orders never to deviate from their course?

Because they aren't a tourist attraction, they are doing a job and that is where they do it. The parents should have been watching their child, this comes solely down to them. The guard is working. They cannot become distracted because someone let their little darling run around.

@Sn0tnose

I’d be really interested to know how many of you who think the soldier did a terrible thing are from London or from a town where there is any sort of military presence? It was one of the first things we were taught as kids. Look where you’re going, get out the way of anyone marching towards you.

This x 10

I'm in the US, and I've never been to the UK, but even I know this. Tourists are supposed to stay out of the way.

I know this too and I've never been to the UK. It's up to the parents to keep their kids out of the way - it's not Disneyland!!

The kid walked right out in front of the guards.

Literally right in front. Why wasn't the Laurent keeping an eye on a kid that age if they didn't have the skills yet to realise you don't stand in front of people who are walking - especially those carrying guns.

However the cynic in me believes there are set up. You only have to read the hashtags at the top to realise this is someone with an agenda. Because someone with those beliefs wouldn't be there filming for memory reasons iyswim?

@gofg

I'm in the US, and I've never been to the UK, but even I know this. Tourists are supposed to stay out of the way.

I know this too and I've never been to the UK. It's up to the parents to keep their kids out of the way - it's not Disneyland!!

This just shows how entitled parents can be though, to think their child can run around in front of people working who also do shout for people to move. It's well known they will not stop.

Oh for goodness sake! These Guards are professionals. They do not need parents who allow their children to get in the way of their jobs.

And if you look at the video carefully, it was just as much a shock to them as it was to the child.

100% parents fault.

The guard stepped over. He’s not going to stop to say “please can you get out of my way, is he? “. People need to stop being so aghast and soft.

In some other countries the child would have been shot.
If the guards are a mmmmmm of a second out of sync it would be treated as a terrorist attack. Do people honestly think the guards are alone in their exercise?
That child was lucky he wasn't done for.
No respect for safety of themselves nor anyone else.
Thank god there wasn't anybody injured.

Some people will genuinely do anything to excuse bad parenting, god knows how badly behaved their own children are.

This just shows how entitled parents can be though, to think their child can run around in front of people working who also do shout for people to move. It's well known they will not stop.

Exactly. Those sort of parents are usually the ones who scream the loudest when something happens, even thought it is their own fault.

@Monty27

In some other countries the child would have been shot. If the guards are a mmmmmm of a second out of sync it would be treated as a terrorist attack. Do people honestly think the guards are alone in their exercise? That child was lucky he wasn't done for. No respect for safety of themselves nor anyone else. Thank god there wasn't anybody injured.

Oh good grief!

Which countries are we talking about? Reminder me never to visit them with wayward grandchildren!!!

Nobody kicked the kid! He stepped carefully over him!

@Sn0tnose

They’re working soldiers. They’re there to do a job, which means the tourists move out of their way, not the other way around.

Exactly this.

They are there to guard the Sovereign, not to impress tourists.

@mathanxiety

Yes soldiers have to follow protocol, personally I can see why that's important, if you can't then...I don't think anyone can help you see that.

What practical purpose related to their alleged guard duties is achieved by marching in a straight line, head up, eyes front?

What practical purpose related to their alleged guard duties was achieved by marching in a straight line, head up, eyes front, and trampling a child?

What is the purpose of the sacred protocol here?

Largely Americans on social media have been dripping about it, well where do we start there eh

So you don't see that this incident which tarnishes the reputation of the Crown, whose properties the Guards are allegedly there to protect, is a problem?
In the context of the conduct of a Prince of the Realm and his friendship with two felons convicted of sex crimes against minors, you can't see the coldhearted trampling of a child as a problem?
The Coldstream Guards in their quaint, impractical, olde Englishe uniforms march around the Tower of London and stand still in their pillboxes while tourists tickle their noses with feathers in order to show the friendly side of British power and the lovably quirky nature of Britain, and you can't see how suddenly revealing themselves to be about as friendly as a tiger loose in the zoo is a problem?

You seem to think that Britain doesn't need the income American tourists contribute to the economy either.

A child who is old enough to understand, ignored an instruction to get out of the way, stood too close to a marching detail and a working soldier on duty collided with him despite his best efforts to avoid.

There was no 'cold hearted trampling'. No-one was hurt.

Soldiers aren't meant to be friendly. They are doing their job.

As others have said - this isn't Disneyland

Boy's brother shoves him in front of soldier who is forced to walk over him - the soldier is looking straight ahead.

Cheeky boys.

I'd imagined a three year old btw not a 7 year old.

They are there to impress tourists a little bit, otherwise they wouldn't have to wear such stupid costumes.

No I don't think the country would miss money from a teeny tiny portion of Americans who are ranting away on twitter.

2 million + views now.

I think you're wrong about the global reach of this too.

www.trendsmap.com/twitter/tweet/1476195393235001348

Good comment here -

Michael Scanlan
@ScanlanWithAnA
Imagine an island, the most normal of all islands, where people love soldiers more than children. Imagine those normal people on that normal island laughing at this

@Unreasonable you raised a titter here

@mathanxiety

No I don't think the country would miss money from a teeny tiny portion of Americans who are ranting away on twitter.

2 million + views now.

I think you're wrong about the global reach of this too.

www.trendsmap.com/twitter/tweet/1476195393235001348

Good comment here -

Michael Scanlan
@ScanlanWithAnA
Imagine an island, the most normal of all islands, where people love soldiers more than children. Imagine those normal people on that normal island laughing at this

Well maybe this will show all Americans who apparently think armed guards should move for their children, that actually they should teach their children to get out the way and not interrupt someone working. Might get less entitled people from this 🥳