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Father Waylays Daughter's Lover
Manchester Union Leader ^
| September 22, 2007
| Greta Cuyler
Posted on 09/22/2007 6:21:10 AM PDT by Jim Noble
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posted on
09/22/2007 6:21:13 AM PDT
by
Jim Noble
To: Jim Noble
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posted on
09/22/2007 6:23:10 AM PDT
by
Doohickey
(Giuliani: Brokeback Republican)
To: Jim Noble
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posted on
09/22/2007 6:23:27 AM PDT
by
Jemian
(PAM of JT ~~ Liberalism only works in the abstract.)
To: Jim Noble
I sympathize with him. He handled things poorly. He won’t be able to protect his daughter from prison. But I sympathize with him.
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posted on
09/22/2007 6:23:35 AM PDT
by
Chanticleer
(I want God, I want Poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.)
To: Jim Noble
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posted on
09/22/2007 6:27:04 AM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(life is like "a bad Saturday Night Live skit that is done in extremely bad taste.")
To: All
The father acted like a man. Very refreshing.
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posted on
09/22/2007 6:29:01 AM PDT
by
afraid
To: Jim Noble
While I have a certain degree of sympathy for the father, I think he might have handled it better. Also:
We live in a world in while a 6-year old can be suspended for kissing a classmate.
We live in a world where an 8-year old can be suspended for drawing a picture of a gun.
Here, we have a grown man, storming into a school and beating up a 17-year-old, in front of witnesses, and he isn't arrested?
Our enforcement of policies, and our enforcement of laws seems more and more arbitrary.
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posted on
09/22/2007 6:29:02 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
To: afraid
I hope I’m on the jury that judges the assault case.
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posted on
09/22/2007 6:30:57 AM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(Trails of troubles, roads of battle, paths of victory we shall walk.)
To: Jim Noble
It was about 1:30 p.m. ... School was just letting out, HUH?
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posted on
09/22/2007 6:32:17 AM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: afraid
Your definition of a man is someone who assaults a child on school property in front of other children?
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posted on
09/22/2007 6:32:34 AM PDT
by
Chanticleer
(I want God, I want Poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.)
To: Jim Noble
Dad needed to do it with plausible deniability. If they can’t prove it was him, they can’t convict him!
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posted on
09/22/2007 6:33:09 AM PDT
by
JimRed
("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW!)
To: Jim Noble
The young lady is lucky she lives in America and not in some Islamist hell-hole where the father and lover would have teamed up to kill the "whore" in front of the rest of her family.
But that will be here soon enough.
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posted on
09/22/2007 6:33:23 AM PDT
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: afraid
To: ClearCase_guy
A woman here got sentenced to a year in prison, 6 months on probation, and a bunch of community service for the misdemeanor offenses of trespassing on a school bus and contributing to the deliquency of a minor by encouraging her daughter to fight with a girl who had slapped her on a prior occasion.
Talk about arbitrary.
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posted on
09/22/2007 6:34:57 AM PDT
by
Chanticleer
(I want God, I want Poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.)
To: Jim Noble
At age seventeen and fifteen, what we probably have is a twelfth grader dating a tenth grader. Age of consent laws (apparently sixteen in NH) that make it statutory rape between two high school students only two years apart in age are ridiculous. Obviously, teens should be protected by law from sexual advances by true adults, out of high school and with the freedom customary for adults as opposed to high school students.
But some common sense needs to be applied in these situations, and the father seems to place none of the responsibility on his fifteen year-old daughter, who is not a child, and according to rate of maturity for boys and girls, probably near the same maturity level as the boy. Two years of age difference is very common in high school dating.
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posted on
09/22/2007 6:35:18 AM PDT
by
Will88
To: guinnessman
Good rules! Poor dad couldn't do much about what happened while the girl was at school, I suppose.
Another good reason to homeschool. :-)
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posted on
09/22/2007 6:36:36 AM PDT
by
Chanticleer
(I want God, I want Poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.)
To: Chanticleer
I sympathize with him. Me too, having raised a slut, and all.
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posted on
09/22/2007 6:37:19 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: Chanticleer
could you sugar coat it any better
I would have done the same thing as this father did
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posted on
09/22/2007 6:37:51 AM PDT
by
advertising guy
(If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
To: Jemian
No. Assault and battery is not justified by a daughter having sex with her boyfriend.
The instinct to beat up the boyfriend is understandable, but the law does not allow assault in "understandable" situations. It only allows it to protect someone from imminent harm.
The father stormed into the school, and proceeded to beat up a minor in front of witnesses? Lock him up.
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posted on
09/22/2007 6:38:18 AM PDT
by
jude24
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: Chanticleer
Your definition of a man is someone who assaults a child on school property in front of other children? Yeah, that was really mean, wasn't it?
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posted on
09/22/2007 6:38:26 AM PDT
by
madprof98
("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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