Posted on 05/02/2009 3:31:39 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
CARRABELLE, Fla. — A Florida corrections officer was fired after zapping children with 50,000 volts of electricity during a "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day" tour.
Department of Corrections Secretary Walt McNeil has ordered an investigation of the April 24 incident at the Franklin Correctional Institution.
Sgt. Walter Schmidt says the parents gave him permission to shock the children with a handheld stun device.
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So the parents gave him permission to blast the kids with a stun gun... geeesh!
He was fired... but not Trooper Wooten using the tazer on his child and threatening the Palins.
WTH????????
He must have voted for McCain/Palin. If he had voted for BO, the “media” would be calling him a hero.
After paying a visit to a local Toys-R-Us store earlier today and being mired in a sea of Third-World savagery, and having to dodge the larvae spawn of these disease carrying lot as they zoomed through the store on bicycles and Razor scooters (apparently in awe of its speed as compared to the local goat named Yuli from their village)as their parents did nothing, I can empathize with this guy. I wish I had a stun gun.
The kids probably loved it.
LOL :) I’ve witnessed much the same in thrift stores and Wal-Mart/Sam’s. Parents don’t say a word.
Actually, when you bring a real third-world child into Toys-R-Us, they’re much better behaved than these ‘larvae spawn’ you’re referring to... they’re seriously fascinated by every little thing, and you end up standing there trying to explain both the purpose of an animatronic ‘fur real’ raccoon toy and what exactly a raccoon is, or why Barbie looks so ‘silly’ compared to real girls, and tell them all about dinosaurs, and ferris wheels - it’s so much fun for everyone involved =) and they’re generally way too respectful to do anything like you mentioned.
However, it’s the entitled spawn of the career welfare family groups (the ones who think the solution to their financial woes is to either have another baby or start dealing drugs) that you’ve got to watch out for, and they’re the ones who’ll take those roller-skate shoes into the mall and take you down there, too, then whine about how you got in their way... I knew a few too many of these kids growing up =(
LOL, civets on a coffee bean binge... it depends on the parents mostly. The incident I was referring to was when I was chaperoning a high school field trip, and one of the kids who ended up in my group (actually, the only one in my group who didn’t decide to give me their cell phone number and run off with whoever was chaperoning their friends) was one of the ‘Lost Boys’ from Sudan (his family has adopted probably 5 or 6 of them by now, all really sweet kids). He knew the ‘fur real’ animals were fake, it was just that the purpose of such an expensive toy in a country where free, abandoned pets were available at every animal shelter was something he didn’t quite understand (and, he had never seen a raccoon before, so he wasn’t quite sure what kind of animal it was).
So, I guess it depends more on the kids’ upbringing - any kids has the potential to run around a toy store like a ‘Civet on a coffee bean binge’ (great analogy, btw) - I’ll admit, my friends and I might have done that once, but our parents never let that happen again, LOL. But, I’ve found that in general, kids who get everything handed to them, whether they’re immigrants or American-born fourth-generation welfare spawn, have no respect for others property, whereas kids who have to work for things and have been taught well, again whether they’re third-world or American or whatever, generally don’t run around destroying stuff.
So true. When you don’t work for something you cannot appreciate it. If I had to bet I say you are or were a teacher. I am right no?
No, I’m not a teacher, I’m actually a college student who’s going into a scientific field, but I’ve taught sunday school before and I’m constantly asked to TA a couple different classes (I’m finally doing it next year), if that counts? And, my mom homeschooled us for a while, and now works in the education system, so we have long conversations about things like this from time to time. Plus, I tend to be very observant when it comes to people and watching them interact with each other and the world around them.
The ‘you have to work for something to appreciate it’ idea for me personally mostly comes from grade inflation - I’m studying hard sciences of various kinds, and was in engineering school, both of which require you to work your butt off just to pass on a big curve, and you pretty much have to be super-human to get ‘good’ grades. Then, there are girls like my neighbors, who are majoring in humanities fields where their professors say things like “If you don’t get an A, you aren’t trying” so they can party past 3 AM every weekend and past midnight on weekdays and still get a comfortable 3.5 GPA... It’s annoying, but I just reassure myself that they could never make it out in the ‘real world’ if their daddy or their rich boyfriend ever stopped dumping money in their laps.
You’re on the right path. Keep it up.
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