For example, in Petaluma, he said it with flowers and she answered with a knife in the back. The husband needed four stitches. The woman's lawyer said the couple wanted to stay together and would take anger awareness classes. In southern England, the Colchester Borough council was outraged at the way Punch and Judy behave and banned the puppets because they promote domestic violence. But the council said wife-beating was not funny in an era of broken homes and domestic violence.
Young children are very impressionable.
We're not actually talking about real violence here. We're talking about knockabout comedy. The same comedy that Tom and Jerry engage in. Maybe they had better avoid Colchester, too. In London, a group of British paramedics had the fright of their lives on Halloween when they mistook a child's toy found on a subway station platform for a human fetus and rushed it to the hospital.