Theresa Collier, 73, spent the night in jail after she slapped her 18-year-old granddaughter in the face for using offensive language.

Yes, you read that right.  Grandma was in jail.

You can imagine the scene.  Your smart-ass 18-year-old granddaughter doesn’t want to do her homework.  She starts dropping F-bombs left and right “as if it’s the word ‘the.’’’  What do you do?

Theresa Collier – went old school – she got up out of the chair, walked across the room and slapped her foul-mouthed granddaughter in the face.

Did that shut her granddaughter up and make her do her homework?  Not exactly.

Her granddaughter called the police.  The police arrested the grandmother for assault.  Grandma spent the night in jail.

That’s where she belongs.

You don’t solve problems with hitting.

It’d be too easy to say – wait a minute – this punk kid deserves to be slapped.  Shut up and do your homework.  Show some respect for your elders. Clearly she’s on the wrong track and someone in her family needs to knock her back into line. Arresting a grandmother for going old school and “correcting” her granddaughter is ridiculous.

No it’s not.  Hitting other people is a crime.  It’s not a teaching tool.  At least not the kind you want to use.

What is this grandmother teaching her granddaughter?  When you don’t like what someone is saying – you hit them.  Next time this 18-year-old can’t get a friend to stop swearing, snickering or otherwise shut up – guess what she’s going to do – that’s right – she’s going old school – she’ll slap ‘em across the face.

73% of Miami residents are outraged that this grandmother was jailed for doing something parents have done for years – hitting their kids.

You want to make it okay because you hate the 18-year-old and you feel bad for the grandmother.   But as soon as we start carving out exceptions – things get dicey fast.  It’s okay for a grandmother to hit a granddaughter.  But it’s not okay if this was a big burly grandfather.  It’s okay if the granddaughter is swearing, but not okay if the granddaughter was just being disrespectful.

I constantly hear people saying – it starts in the home – well if hitting starts in the home you can guess where it’s headed – into the public.

Yesterday, there was this crazy thing that happened in Miami.  Imagine this – you work for the TSA.  You are at a training for the full body scanners.  You step into the machine and your supervisor starts making jokes about your small package.  Your co-workers start snickering and you crumble out of embarrassment and anger.  So what do you do?

You hit one of your colleagues with a police baton, of course.

The snickering employee deserves it, right?  Just like your 18-year-old F-bomb dropping granddaughter does?

73% of locals are outraged that a grandmother was arrested.  You’re smarter than that.  Hitting someone because you don’t like their behavior isn’t old school – it’s a crime.