8-year-old writes threat letter to dad to let her watch ‘Iron Man’

An eight-year-old’s adorable but dangerous letter is getting lots of likes on X. Joel Berry, a writer and managing editor of the satire website The Babylon Bee, posted a picture of a handwritten letter addressed to him on Facebook on Saturday.

The note, with its childish handwriting and misspelled words, was written by his eight-year-old child. It said, “Joel Berry ergent mail open Emedietly. Dear Joel Berry, for your kids you must let them watch Iron man tonight or you will be killed. FROM: Govormet”.

Berry wrote, “A mailman who looked suspiciously like my 8-year-old put this in my mailbox this morning,” along with the fabricated threat. “Torn between letting them watch it and teaching them an important lesson about how we don’t obey unlawful govormet orders in this house,” he wrote in a follow-up tweet.

This picture of the letter has gathered over 81,000 likes.Berry stated that they did watch the Ironman in the end. “The govormet won this round,” he wrote alongside a photo of the movie playing on his home TV.