Boston Blotter: Someone Is Indeed a Little Man

--A little while back, an angry dad entered the fray when his kid got in a fight with a 10-year-old after a hockey match. Not only is that embarrassing for the guy's own son, but it's really embarrassing when a 46-year-old man sees fit to wail on a little kid.

Now the Hopedale dad has been charged for his actions. Let this be a lesson to any potential parents out there: When your kid gets into a fight with another one, you are supposed to separate them, not help your kid out. And shouldn't the kid learn to fight for himself anyway, especially if he plays hockey?

--In much more depressing news, another young woman died in Dorchester last night. A 19-year-old woman got shot at the intersection of Geneva and Westville, and the BPD thinks it was tied to a party going on around there.

--Pet owners have reason to be pissed. Turns out that the pet-food ingredient killing and sickening pets all across the land was rat poison. How rat poison wound up in the pet food, no one knows. Shouldn't someone have tested the product at some point? According to ABC News, "The chemical was put in wheat imported from China that was used by Menu Foods to produce gluten, a filler in wet pet food."

--Robbers are picking on Radio Shacks in Cambridge. Bostonist finds this highly annoying, as the Radio Shacks in Cambridge have, on the whole, some of the coolest, most pleasant employees in town. If you haven't had a good experience there, feel free to let us know, but the Cambridge Radio Shacks cultivated a Masshole-free environment, and we're sad that someone's trying to smash-and-grab from them.

All charges alleged until proven under law. Little Man image from Amazon.