Last week son had a temper tantrum over something pathetically incedental and bounced the computer off a wall. Dead computer (and it didn't do the wall any favors, either). My friend isn't exactly thrilled but, to his credit, he told the kid "Sorry, you had a fit and broke it. You're not coming over to mooch time on Mom and Dad's machine anymore. Go to the library." Upon receiving the news Kid had another tantrum and punched a hole in his best friend's bedroom door, a door in a house where he was staying FOR FREE as a favor so he could get his financial feet back under him.
Lulz.
My brother tried something similar to me, about 10 years ago when I got out of college and was staying with my parents (and him) at my parents house. I was left to keep an eye on him (he was a HS freshman at the time) and we had a dispute about something little that escalated to fisticuffs. It was a very short escalation and I put him in a behind the back armlock, walked him up to his bedroom and pushed him in.
He started breaking random things in his bedroom as a result.
Including deliberately bashing his head against the closet door and cracking the veneer of the door in a circle-shape.
Parents come home a couple days later and he tells them some BS story about how I threw him into the door. Parents believed his side of the story for years. For a couple years, they still wanted me to give them money to replace the damaged closet door. The farthest I agreed to do at one point was give them half, but only if my brother paid the other half FIRST. It was a point of honor, to me. They never got that other half from him, so they never got it from me. They finally believe me now.
I'm 190 pounds, 6'3" tall. I can't throw ANYONE 10 feet across a room.
