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[culero]

Originally posted by Sox62
When I was a senior I nailed a guy in the back of the head with an apple down the hallway.

I got two hours detention.I wonder how much prison time that'd be worth today.

Well, I hate to be a party pooper, but what if he'd turned his head 90 degrees just after you released the throw, and the apple hit him in the temple?

Do you want to know how much prison time you might have gotten then or now if serious injury or death had been the result?

Don't get me wrong, I hate the current climate of PC-Uber-Alles as much as anyone, but I have never seen anything wrong with a philosophy of "your right to do as you please ends at my nose" and with lawful authority agreeing.

Take into context I grew up in Texas in the 60s as a boy named Kelly, and have NEVER taken an asskicking from anyone in my life except from my father (being 6'3" large and strong as an adult made that easy after a certain point, but I was a large kid too). This isn't about repressed bad memories, its about common sense. Bullies suck, and so does behavior can be construed as such. Our community should prohibit it, including our schools.

culero

[nirvana]

Going back to my health teacher who was one of the toughest deans in terms of punishment for 12 years, he would tell us stories about parents defending their kids that got into fights or did something to the teacher.  Purple nurples are harmless fun, my friend did it to me when we were in 8th grade, guess what WE MATURED.  You call them limp wristed sissies tell them to grow the **** up.



P.S. I was just stating what they might call it here GTO, not what I think it would be.  I think they should all get smacked around a couple times and if they do it again, bend em over a desk and give em a couple wallops with a wooden plank with .5" holes drilled in it.  Think, kids don't care if they miss class, hell it's a Golly-geen mini vacation, give em the pain!

[Sandman]

More on the story.

http://www.mailtribune.com/archive/2005/0807/local/stories/13local.htm

[Pooh21]

ahh I remember the heady days in 85 on the Ellsworth AFB elementary school playground, beating each other silly during recess, and maybe getting sent home, instead of being tossed in jail longer then a serial axe murdering cannibal rapist.

[VOR]

Anyone else remember when parents used to call each other and work things like this out without the help of social workers? What's with this modern-day interventionist approach to everything, anyway?

This story is beyond ridiculous. It belongs in the Onion.

[Sandman]

Originally posted by VOR
Anyone else remember when parents used to call each other and work things like this out without the help of social workers?

That pretty much stopped when both parents went to work. The "Mommy Network" isn't what it used to be.

[VOR]

Originally posted by Sandman
That pretty much stopped when both parents went to work. The "Mommy Network" isn't what it used to be.

Now we're getting somewhere. Seems to me kids didn't go to school back then and shoot all their classmates, either.

Careful tho Sandy..this kind of "backwards thinking" might get us labeled as Neocons or even Christians or worse.

[Sox62]

Originally posted by culero
Well, I hate to be a party pooper, but what if he'd turned his head 90 degrees just after you released the throw, and the apple hit him in the temple?

Do you want to know how much prison time you might have gotten then or now if serious injury or death had been the result?
culero

That would have sucked.I was a 17 year old kid.I didn't throw it on a whim.

The lunch bell had wrung,and I had already grabbed my lunch,along with my trig book that had homework and papers in it.The guy in question thought it would be funny to knock it out of my hand,which he did.All of my notes,papers,etc scattered all over the place,and he scooted down the hall laughing.

I didn't consider the social ramifications,I just reached in my lunchbag,grabbed the apple and fired.

I was busted by my English teacher who was standing right there.He was also my baseball coach.He asked,"why aren't you always that accurate?"

I was just a kid that threw an apple.The other guy got apple sauce on the side of his head.No one was hurt,and I never did anything like that again.I think the principal also realized I was provoked.

So,are you suggesting that I should have been punished based on what could have happened,instead of what did?

[Leslie]

Well, I wrote and erased two long posts about this.  I'm sure you all thank me for that.

One thing I am curious about.  What the heck is a "wet willie?"  Is it where someone throws a bucket of water on you or something?

And this purple nurple deal.  Does that really hurt all that bad?  Seems if it did, the one receiving would sock the giver in the face with a fist, or at least give an open hand shove to the face to get' em off.  No thinking about it when in pain, would just happen.

Guess it happening in a public place like a deli was over the line.  They may have called the cops on both of 'em, 'cause apparently with the girl present, it did constitute an ungentlemanly conduct towards her by it being done in front of her.   And I have seen this before, there was a girl present, and the exclamation "tittie twister" was used.

Beginning to understand?




Les

[storch]

a wet willy is when you stick your index finger in your mouth, slobber it all up and stick it in another kid's ear.  there is no better excuse for delivering a near death experience to another human, that's why the bullies do it to the smaller kids.

[Tumor]

Originally posted by Sandman
More on the story.

http://www.mailtribune.com/archive/2005/0807/local/stories/13local.htm

Thanks!  The article clears allot of things up...   the whole incident is an even bigger joke than I originally thought.

[Leslie]

Ahhh, ok, glad that's all it is.



Les

[culero]

Originally posted by Sox62
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So,are you suggesting that I should have been punished based on what could have happened,instead of what did?

Absolutely not, I am just pointing out that there is good reason that behavior like this should be treated with serious concern. I'm seeing two extremes in opinion in this discussion, and think wisdom lies somewhere in the middle.

culero (gee, that was profound, eh? )

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by nirvana
According to my health teacher purple nurples can cause male breast cancer.  Couldn't find anything to prove or disprove so it's up in the air.

At any rate it would be something like "sexual harassment" or assault.

You wouldn't have lasted long in school Pre-Early 90's nirvana.   I mean, DODGEBALL and Musical Chairs have been banned in most schools because "it brings shame to the last person who lost".   My son is 4, I'll be making up for what his schools try "preach on glorification".    The state of affairs in the School Systems is pathetic, and I am NOT talking about the teachers banging students either.  

Karaya

[parker00]

Chapman said most cases like this don�t end up in court.

"They filter themselves out," he said. "Most kids don�t report."

Alford�s refusal to let David go to the intake hearing upped the ante and brought down "unfair, Draconian measures" upon her son, Kellington said. What should have been a discussion between first-time-offender David and a representative of the juvenile justice system became a court trial.

So basically if the Mom of the offender would of done her job and went to the meeting then maybe her son would not of been in so much trouble. Can't say they should punish him more but maybe next time she will listen to the court.

The reason kids come to school with guns and shoot people is because your liberal friends made sure that they were facing a bunch of unarmed sheep... again... more of your meddling into human nature that backfires.

So you are saying all kids in school should have weapons? Again, people talking without thinking first!!!