[Beave Meister]

This is what the police focused on? Are you kidding me. In a nation currently run locally and nationally by fools, this story jumps to the top of the idiocy chart.

[unixfox]

Insanity.

[nickcarraway]

Texas is a lot more liberal than it seems.

[stinkerpot65]

Three months? Deadbeat dad looking for a free phone.

[dfwgator]

Should I just turn myself into the police now?

[Sacajaweau]

Already posted.

[Farmer Dean]

It was the jabberwalky ex-wife who pushed the issue.The father is trying to do some responsible parenting and the ex just can’t have that.

[bigbob]

and these people are going to vote for a conservative?

[Vigilanteman]

My daughters did not get their first cell phone until they went off to college. When they gave me the old excuse that "I need to call for a ride when I'm done with after school activities", I loaned them my prepaid TracFone.

I was a mean father. So mean that all three of our daughters grew up to be useful, competent citizens.

[N. Theknow]

Don't take the phone.

Take the charger.

[LostInBayport]

the police showed up at his door around 2 a.m.

Clearly there is not any sort of vindictive agenda being channeled by the ex through her policeman hubby causing him to abuse the authority granted to him by the citizenry. That would be wrong! /s

[discostu]

Once you get past the deliberately inflammatory no where near the whole truth headline it seems right to me. The ex-wife paid for it, he took it, that’s theft.

[proudpapa]

What an evil Steppe mom.

[napscoordinator]

So really he got arrested for failing to obey a direct order from the cops. Don’t you love these big fat lie article titles.

[SkyDancer]

Divorced ex-wife just beating up on the dad.

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

I’m wondering if this is one of those situations where there is more to the story than we are being told. Perhaps the phone is the way the mother keeps in touch with her daughter and when the father took it away, it made it difficult to stay in touch. In this day and age the telephone is the easiest way to keep up communication with people. There may not even be a landline in the father’s home. My first reaction to the story was that the father was being a real father on the mother was being a jerk. Now I wonder what else there is that we don’t know about the situation.

[Tax-chick]

“Dad Arrested for Stealing Phone from Ex-Wife.”

[TexasCajun]

Mom:

"You can't take someone's property, regardless if you're a parent or not," Steppe said

[I want the USA back]

Obviously the man was arrested. A woman would not have been arrested.

[Brian Griffin]

The father apparently had custody of his child (and her apparent possessions) at the time he took the phone.

The taking wasn’t theft.

If my mom gave me something I would assume it was mine, and so would my father.

[tioga]

The ex-wife is married to a policeman, seems like the cops were doing a favor to the stepfather. Shame on them. However, I cannot imagine taking an iphone4 and thinking I would get away with keeping it. He took it when the daughter was 12, and she is now 15. The father must think she hasn’t grown up at all in those years. Sad state of affairs. The father has now abandoned his daughter. Wonder why. This family embraces dysfunction.