Posted on 05/29/2014 11:29:12 AM PDT by SJackson
A Georgia father has been arrested for making his teenage son carry a 23-pound landscape stone for miles as a military-style punishment, WXIA-TV reported.
Veteran Charlie Mayes, 40, is accused of making his 16-year-old son carry the landscaping stone for three miles at a time. The military father was arrested and charged with first-degree child cruelty on Tuesday.
Mayes told Douglassville police he made his son carry the stone as punishment for not doing his chores and schoolwork because he was watching too many videos. The 4-foot-2-inch tall teenager had to carry the paving stone for three miles from King's Highway to his home in the Fairways subdivision.
"This was done multiple times over a three-day period, sometimes as early as 3 o'clock in the morning," Police Sergeant Todd Garner told the station.
"In between that time, he was at home having to move rocks and stuff from one side of the back yard to the other and then being taken right back out to the same location and dropped off and made to walk back again," Garner said.
Police were altered to the boy's punishment by a driver delivering pizzas who saw him.
Mayes told Douglassville police he made his son carry the stone as punishment for not doing his chores and schoolwork because he was watching too many videos. The 4-foot-2-inch tall teenager had to carry the paving stone for three miles from King's Highway to his home in the Fairways subdivision.
"This was done multiple times over a three-day period, sometimes as early as 3 o'clock in the morning," Police Sergeant Todd Garner told the station.
"In between that time, he was at home having to move rocks and stuff from one side of the back yard to the other and then being taken right back out to the same location and dropped off and made to walk back again," Garner said.
Police were altered to the boy's punishment by a driver delivering pizzas who saw him.
By 16, most of us could have played catch with a 23 pound stone.
LOL! I'm married. That'd be double-jeopardy.
So, all those hay bales we piled up, just to have them turn into bovine crap, were pointless cruelty? LOL! Who knew?
Totally a historical moment.
I just wish there hadn’t been articles after the event talking about how mean coaches were for pushing them to the limit and beyond to make them into the best, so they COULD be good enough to qualify and enter the Olympics.
An observation. Everyone of those prisoners was likely sure who their mother was.
Well let's see. I said "Hard work to accomplish a valuable or necessary task is one thing. It teaches discipline, the value of hard work, pride in accomplishment and gets rid of laziness and sloth."
So what the hell are YOU talking about?
How I spent my summer vacation.
Suffice to say that I find genteel street biking more to my liking these days.
The location where the described problem happened is identified in the Google link here. Back out the zoom until spot Black Rock Canyon Rd near I-15 to get an idea of how far in I had gone.
Value is where you find it.
Similar situation happened to me a couple years ago but no injury and no bike damage. Just hyperventilating and hysteria on my part. Having your head pointed downhill does something to one's rational reasoning ability lol.
I do take the 2M HT and GMRS with me now. And H2O.
No idea how the guys with the big bikes do it on those trails. Actually, I do know: with a lot of help. Took as many as six guys to get an R1200GS Adventure up an exceptionally steep trail near here with "baby head" rocks stacked on it, but the guy rode the rest of the trail pretty well by himself.
I'll stick with the trials bike weighing 1/4 of that. The trials bike could ride up and over the BMW and rider if they were down.
That little trials bike must be a fun beast. That kind of technical riding is more enjoyable than ripping around on a hot 450...unless it is in the sand near St Anthony. That might be fun.
Stay safe and have fun!
Whatever..I’m not even going to try and argue with chic logic because it’s without exception an effort in futility.
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