Matthew Kowald was cited for disorderly conduct after authorities say he restrained his son and forced him to wear a Green Bay Packers jersey.
Posted on 01/16/2008 1:36:29 PM PST by Cagey
A Pardeeville man was issued a citation for disorderly conduct Wednesday after allegedly forcing his 7-year-old son to wear a Green Bay Packers jersey during the divisional playoff game last weekend.
Matthew Kowald, 36, pleaded no contest Wednesday to disorderly conduct after he was released from the Columbia County Jail. He received a fine of $186. Columbia County District Attorney Jane Kohlwey said there was not enough evidence against Kowald to support felony charges.
The Columbia County Sheriff's Department said the boy refused to wear a Packers jersey during the Green Bay game against Seattle, so Kowald restrained him with tape for about an hour and taped the jersey to him.
The boy's mother reported the incident Monday, the sheriff's department said.
Matthew Kowald was cited for disorderly conduct after authorities say he restrained his son and forced him to wear a Green Bay Packers jersey.
Can we assume alcohol was involved?
or cheese?
That’s going to be a fun childhood. ******* bully.
LOL!
WTH? This story is just too strange for words.
When our kids were 7, they wore what my wife and I told them to wear. There was never any argument.
And, what a stooooopid headline. The guy was not cited for forcing his son to wear the jersey. Rather, it appears he was cited for restraining the boy with tape.
He’s lucky it wasn’t a Denver Broncos’ jersey. That would be a CAPITOL offense
duct tape, no doubt.. bringing Chessehead families together for a long time.
Can’t image a 7 year old boy causing a grown man such trouble. Leave the boy at home for crying out loud. What a dork. Gotta believe that Mom has been waiting for this day for a while.
Hey! The kid is 7 years old. Since when does a 7 year old decide what he will wear on a specific occasion? When I was 7 years old, I wore what I was told to wear, period. :)
need I add a sarcasm tag?
LOL, I cringe at the thought of some of the outfits that my siblings and I would put together at that age. Although my parents had general rules like ‘wear old clothes to play in the mud’, we were pretty much left to our own devices, which resulted in some dubious choices. All in all, I think it helped us a lot (especially my sister and I) when we got older and girls would start making comments about other peoples’ clothes, and I was appalled at the idea that people would wear specific clothes just because someone told them to.
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