Forced drinking of urine at Boy Scout camp blamed on racial slur

http://www.ocala.com/article/20090615/ARTICLES/906159973/0/OPINION ^ | June 15, 2009 | Lise Fisher

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

One adult and three teenagers at a Boy Scout camp are accused of forcing a boy to drink human urine because they were "teaching him a lesson" for supposedly making racial slurs to another Scout, the Putnam County Sheriff's Office reported Monday.
Investigators arrested Joseph Wendell Reid, 21, two 16-year-olds, and a 15-year-old, all from Ocala, last week on a charge of kidnapping.
Officers allege the four held a 12-year-old boy against his will, first taping his mouth shut and then forcing him to drink urine, according to the Sheriff's Office.
The four were attending Camp Shands at Baden Powell Road near Hawthorne, the Sheriff's Office reported.
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Sears said the four people arrested and the 12-year-old boy were from different Boy Scout troops.
Reid was a volunteer leader in scouting and was with the troop of the other Ocala residents involved in the incident, Sears said.

[Myrddin]

Snipe hunts and searches for the "left handed smoke shifter" were harmless pranks. The scouts in my troop didn't engage in physical harassment. The most egregious thing that happened to me in scouts was carrying a 52 pound pack 20 miles into a 30 mile hike. On the way into the camp location, a bee flew up under my shirt and stung me just over the right kidney. Next, a scout leader showed up and took the heavy canvas tent I had carried for 20 miles. I was left sleeping under the stars. The next morning, the jerk brought the tent over to me as if I was his personal pack mule. I told him he would have to carry it out. I'm not sure how that tent was conveyed to the end of the hike, but it wasn't on my back.

[Myrddin]

I left out an important detail. I was carrying that 52 pound pack on my 6 ft tall, 112 lb body. The pack was nearly half my body weight.

[GOPJ]

Liberals committing a hate crime against a child. Maybe Letterman can make a joke out of it - well, he won’t hear about it because any time a liberal “hates” it doesn’t make the news. Eff ‘em.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Then they had sex with him.

[Rebelbase]

Did a backpack trip once where an overweight, out of shape kid was with us. We ended up spliting up his gear and carry it between all of us. I spent the last two hours of the hike a mile behind everyone else with my hand in the middle of his back pushing him up the mountain. He made it.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I note that they violated the two-deep leadership rule. The Boy scouts prohibit a group of scouts with a single adult leader.

[Myrddin]

My first Scout troop was in Springfield, VA. I attended my first meeting on Wednesday, May 29th, 1968. There was a hike scheduled for Saturday, but you had to be a Tenderfoot to participate. The next day was Memorial Day. I went to the Scoutmaster's house and passed all my Tenderfoot requirements. It was quite an evening of "cramming" for the test. The hike on the C&O canal was a blast. It was 10 miles of mosquito infested green water.

My first and only scout camp was at Goshen, VA in July 1968. I made 2nd class, earned the swimming merit badge and mile swim patch. After summer camp, I pressed forward to finish my First Class requirements before moving back to San Diego. I joined Troop 857 in Chula Vista and made Eagle in April 1972.

We had a few out of shape kids in both troops. Fortunately, the "shakedown" hikes were structured such that the leaders didn't have to split equipment or physically move them along. By the time we were going up Mt San Jacinto or San Gorgonio, everyone was in pretty good shape. The 30 mile "Camelback" through the Cuyamaca mountains and much flatter "El Camino" hikes were good preparation. The real hiking fans took the 14 day Sierra Trek including a climb to the summit of Mt. Whitney. My lungs weren't up to that level of exertion.

[SaraJohnson]

A great excuse for the perverts to act out. Any degree of murder or assault is not “justified” in the name of whitey getting uppity in childhood conflicts with their racial superiors.

Why didn’t the perverts just lynch the kid? Because making him drink their urine was exciting to the freaks in a golden shower kind of way.

[Rebelbase]

I did two trips to Philmont. 10,000 feet is the highest we hiked there. Did a trip in the Rockies once a few years later with a couple of buddies. After 3 days in the car we hit the trail as soon as we arrived. I had to stop about 2 miles from our destination as my legs cramped up bad. Went to sleep and didn’t wake until the next morning. Felt 100% then.

[Myrddin]

San Jacinto summit is around 10,800. San Gorgonio is 11,500. The folks that went to the top of Mt Whitney said they were definitely feeling the altitude. Philmont would have been fun, but we simply didn't have the resources to cover that trip. I was lucky to have one trip to scout camp.

The San Jacinto trip usually started in Idyllwild at the foot of "Devil's Slide". We hiked to the "saddle", then headed the long way around to Round Valley to camp for the night. In the morning, we walked to Wellman's Divide and dropped our packs. One of the adults watched the packs while the rest of us raced unfettered to the summit. The San Gorgonio summit was always a fully packed experience. There wasn't a convenient spot to drop the packs.

The leg cramps seemed to be most apparent in the first 3 miles of walking. After that, they tend to relax as long as you maintain a decent pace.

[denydenydeny]

It’s the culture. In a world where “racism” is considered the ultimate evil, everything else, including the horrible abuse of a child, is a lesser offense.