Imagine a crowd of guys shouting and pumping their fists in the air, circled around a meaty, muscular goon and a buffed out Brad Pitt covered in sweat and blood. Now, imagine those same guys but a little bit shorter, with higher voices, and the [former] Justin Bieber haircut.

Moms all around the country are always bragging about how proud they are of their sons. “Oh! My boy is so smart! He makes me so proud. He makes so many good choices, he’s just so perfect!” Well, that may not be the case in Tacoma, Washington. Nine proud mothers discovered that their “perfect” little boys were not so flawless after all.

Sure! You should absolutely be proud of your kid if he knows how to defend himself physically. You don’t want your kid to get hurt do you? But, maybe it’s not so impressive when he’s bashing another kid’s brains out.

Recently nine pre-teen boys were expelled from their school because they were part of their very own Brad Pitt flick. Oh, and I would just like to emphasize the words “pre” and “teen”. Seriously, these guys are in sixth grade! Anyway, these nine prepubescent middle schoolers decided it would be cool to start a fight club. Underground gatherings, secret membership, blood, sweat, and soap, the whole shabang.

It’s hard to believe 13 and 14-year-old boys are capable of fighting without shedding a tear or two. Especially if the fighting is at such a high level of brutal. But, apparently it’s certainly possible. Supposedly there were even videos taken of the beatings from their phones. Seems like immature, hormonal, mean girls aren’t the only ones who enjoy inflicting pain and misery on their peers and filming it with their Crackberries. The boys wouldn’t have gotten caught if it hadn’t been for one of the members who got so wrapped up in the “excitement” that he slipped up and bragged about the club to a Television news reporter. He even showed the video. I mean, doesn’t he know the first rule of the Fight Club?

I have to say the story definitely brings up a difficult question with a side order of mind boggling. The question is, what possessed these kids to start kicking each other’s…uh, bums? Really though, sixth graders cry when they get splinters and now they are suddenly tough enough to take a knee to the nads? Kids at that age are still growing and now they’re going to stunt their growth with broken bones and faces. I tell you one thing, plastic surgeons are going to come into a lot more money in the future. Our youngest generation is going to grow up looking like Sylvester Stallone.

Fortunately, the school district is now going to be extra careful with their students making sure that their aren’t any other clubs in other middle schools. It is a dangerous reality that we have to, unfortunately, be aware of. It’s upsetting that such an iconic movie could have such a negative effect on the audience, but again, it’s just one more thing we have to worry about.

So, I’m pretty sure that there is a moral to this story. There probably isn’t one but if I had to choose I would think it’s that, if you have a kid, don’t let them watch Fight Club until they are 18. Or David Fincher just might make another movie…