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Hawaiian man fined $200 for making son walk mile home from school as punishment
NEW YORK DAILY NEW ^ | Friday, May 30, 2014, 10:21 AM | BY LEE MORAN

Posted on 05/30/2014 10:04:06 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

A Hawaiian man has been sentenced to one year of probation for making his misbehaving son walk a mile home from school.

Robert Demond was also fined $200 and ordered to attend parenting classes after a judge called the punishment "old-school" and "no longer appropriate."

"These are different times," Judge Kathleen Watanabe told the defendant.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


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Yeah, these are different times...unfortunately.
1 posted on 05/30/2014 10:04:06 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Hawaii Is a 20th Century MISTAKE “State”!


2 posted on 05/30/2014 10:05:01 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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I wonder what’s in these parenting classes. “It’s not your job to discipline your child. That now belongs to the state”.


3 posted on 05/30/2014 10:06:18 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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??

Surely there is more to it than that? $200 fine for what? What is the problem with walking a mile?

“Had to sell the car to pay it though” should be his next words.


4 posted on 05/30/2014 10:06:24 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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Totally goofy that some islands in the middle of the Pacific are part of this country.


5 posted on 05/30/2014 10:06:31 AM PDT by all the best (sat`~!)
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How old is the kid? Does that dumb judge have a suggestion or just the usual tripe?


6 posted on 05/30/2014 10:07:01 AM PDT by defconw (Well now what?)
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To: all the best

Not goofy at all. The Generals had to have SOME reason for their trips to play golf.


7 posted on 05/30/2014 10:08:50 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Different times alright.

This is the age of the death of reason.

8 posted on 05/30/2014 10:09:09 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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The father pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor charge.

That was his first mistake.

Well, maybe not his first. I would like to know the age of the child.


9 posted on 05/30/2014 10:10:26 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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There were days in high school when I had to run the mile. Twice.


10 posted on 05/30/2014 10:10:58 AM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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Uphill? Both ways? In six feet of snow? To listen to my Dad tell it, the kid had it easy...


11 posted on 05/30/2014 10:11:26 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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Islands are for military uses. The inhabitants, like most island species undergo a gradual reduction in size. In the case of Hawaiian “persons”, the reduction was in cranial capacity and cognitive capability.

Now you know why Hawaii is a population of collectivists and their Nanny State gubment.


12 posted on 05/30/2014 10:11:35 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est - because of what Islam is and because of what Muslims do.)
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The idiot judge calls that hike home “old school”? He never met my Dad.


13 posted on 05/30/2014 10:11:42 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Don't tell me, I'll tell you.)
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And maybe if he made the kid to a mountain top it would be a mile, uphill through the snow.
14 posted on 05/30/2014 10:12:04 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
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Please tell me that there is more to this story...
Like Dad was chasing him down with his car.
Or he was beating him with a stick the entire mile.
Or something ... walking one mile is a 'treat' (particularly in Hawaii in May)... Not exactly your Bataan's Death March.
15 posted on 05/30/2014 10:12:04 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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Yeah, Recall time.


16 posted on 05/30/2014 10:19:11 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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Why in my day we had to walk through the lava fields, and sometimes the lava was almost up to my chest. and let me tell you it was almost 7 miles and uphill BOTH ways. Kids now a days are just soft


17 posted on 05/30/2014 10:20:34 AM PDT by verga (Conservative, leaning libertatian)
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To: El Cid

Can I ask a stupid question? How did law enforcement even find out about.this? Did the kid call the cops when he got home, and report his dad? Did he tell a teacher in school, who decided that this was unlawful punishment? How the heck does the legal system even get involved in reviewing discipline of a child????


18 posted on 05/30/2014 10:20:41 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (et)
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I’m glad i was never punished.

We live a little less than a mile from our school, therefore, ineligible for the school bus service.

My daughter WALKS to school occasionally if for some reason, I cannot take her to school on my way to work.


19 posted on 05/30/2014 10:21:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I’m glad i was never punished.

We live a little less than a mile from our school, therefore, ineligible for the school bus service.

My daughter WALKS to school occasionally if for some reason, I cannot take her to school on my way to work.


20 posted on 05/30/2014 10:21:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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