An issue for parents or police?

Tweet

A few weeks ago my father was watchig my kids for me while I went to the store, when I got home he told me that there had been an issue with another child and that I needed to go speak to the parents. O.k. I would have gone to get the other side of the story and check things out anyway, so I headed over there. Once I arrived the father whom has had an issue with my family for a while, though refuses to tell me why, tells me that my 10 year old had hit his son in the back with a nunchuck and that he had called the police. What my son and 6 year old daughter had told me was that thier 8 year old son had hit my daughter in the head with a stick while they were playing war, and there was a goose egg to back that up, when my son had lost his temper and hit him with the nunchucks in her deffense. Now first, I did ground my son for a week for hitting him and informed him that while his intentions were good his response was wrong. We took the nunchucks away and I thought that should be enough. This man was seriously trying to have the officer arrest my child or me. Thank God the officer informed him that under Fl. law the nunchucks were classified as a toy, not the "class 2 weapon" my neighbor was claiming them to be, and that considering the ages of the children involved it was a matter for the paernets not the police. Growing up if I got into trouble with another kid our parents would meet, talk, and then my mom dealt with me and thier parents delt with them. So I am looking to get a general feel for what other people would do in this situation, or any similar stories. What I am hearing from some of the other mothers I've spoke to is that calling the police for problems with kids is the norm. What's your take?