Thank you sir! Can I have another?
Posted on 02/04/2005 9:02:31 AM PST by Nachum
DELTONA, Fla. -- Three high school wrestlers face expulsion based on accusations they hog-tied a learning-disabled teammate and zapped him with a grill igniter.
Officials call it a hazing prank that went too far.
None of the boys were arrested but Volusia County's sheriff's office filed felony complaints with prosecutors, seeking felony charges of aggravated battery and false imprisonment.
School officials said two hazing incidents occurred in a wrestling practice room at the high school Tuesday.
Volusia County Sheriff's Department offers the following account of the incident:
"According to witnesses, the victim -- a 17-year-old wrestler -- was tackled to the ground by team members while inside the wrestling room, hogtied with a jump rope and then shocked 20 or more times with an igniter device.
Witnesses described the incident as a prank meant as a joke. The victim, however, said he was fighting back and told the other boys to stop, but they refused and continued to hold him down.
Afterwards, the victim, still tied up, was taken to the gymnasium. A 15-year-old student, who was accused of shocking the victim was charged with aggravated battery and false imprisonment. A 16-year-old wrestler was charged with being a principal to aggravated battery and false imprisonment for helping to tie up the victim. Another student, a 17-year-old, was accused of restraining the victim by sitting on his back. He also was charged with being a principal to aggravated battery and false imprisonment.
Shortly before being victimized, the victim participated in a similar incident in which another wrestler was hogtied and had his mouth taped shut by team members. That incident, however, didn’t go as far and the shocking device wasn’t used. The target of the first prank said he wasn’t bothered by the incident."
Officials learned of the hazing incidents when the 17-year-old told a physical education teacher about the second.
Witnesses described the incident as a prank meant as a joke.
20 or more times as a JOKE?
At least he didn't put panties on his head and then shock him 20 times.
Shocker that wrestlers would do this. The 'wacked out of their gourd' rato is the highest in wrestling.
Hormones in overdrive.
Practicing for the Special Olympics?
I always found something wrong with young men who like to roll around with other young men.
Sounds like they got him back.
I would like to know more about these little sheetheads' parents/families...
Me too. What in theee hell is the matter with these people and others who do this kind of crap? Grow the heck up and be responsible for heavens sake! Wonder how they would like it? Gosh I'm sick and tired of the behaviors of people today. Just sick and tired of it. I just wish these same people who come up with these idiotic ideas that they think is funny would put as much energy into doing something constructive for the country, the poor and the needy as they put into these stupid, assinine acts. Maybe I'm overreacting but honestly, I am just sick of the constant troublemakers and the negative things they do. Am I alone or what?
That's a pretty asinine statement, care to prove it? Or are you just another misfit who bases their opinions on anecdotal evidence?
Lots of hazing incidents are illegal now days.
I wonder, in a hypothetical situation, what would happen in today's evironment if a football player had a tongue depresser full of Icy Hot (the real hot stuff) and wiped it on another kid's privates in the locker room?
You think school officials would frown on that?
Again, the event described here is purely a hypothetical and fictucious example, bearing no resemblance to any acts commited in real life.
Of course not. Athletic hazing is the lowest of the low. To be part of a team is proved on the mat, not by some pathetic right of "passage."
Thank you sir! Can I have another?
Where's Dean Wormer when you need him?
In no way do I condone or defend their actions, but I'd like to point out one thing. The article uses the word "Grill Igniter" as if it's some type of cattle prod. In my experience a "Grill Igniter" is a cigarette lighter with a long stem, and electrically it's like getting plonked with someone's finger. Unless you use it on your tongue of course.
Before flaming me, let me say again, this was wrong, but I think that the reporter who wrote the story was attempting to "beef up" the article's impact with the "Grill Igniter" phrase.
Today? Horrible Hazing wasn't invented a few years ago.
Douglas MacArthur was involved in a famous case (as a victim) at West Point when he was a cadet there.
You tend to hear about this stuff more now. Much of it was just laughed off as "boys will be boys" previously.
It IS pathetic isn't it?
Well, anytime it's done it's disgusting.
Obviously this went too far, but do we really want to give these kids a criminal record and send them to prison where they will likely be raped and ruined for life?
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