Maybe there’s something we don’t know here, but multiple articles (USA and Gannet which can’t be posted) cite the same facts and charge, which imo is ludicrous. Though 4’2” at 16 makes me wonder if there are health issues, 3 miles with 23 pounds isn’t cruelty all of my kids backpacked with more than that before they were teens.
So can coaches and trainers be charged with a crime now if they make you push the limits to make you better? Boy what a wuss ified nation we have become not that I think the father’s punishment was a little harsh to say the least
Thank goodness he didn’t make junior run bleacher laps.
16 years old and 4’ 2” ?
I work with families day in and day out and the boys of today are mostly effemminate pansies cuttled even more by their fathers than even their mothers. It’s quite disturbing!
When I was in 7th grade, we had an eccentric science teacher who had a pair of bookends made from 3/4 inch armor steel.
If you goofed off or did something to warrant punishment, he would make the student stand in the back of the class and hold those for the entire period.
I know first-hand, those weighed about 20-25 lbs each. They were hard to hold because of the 90 ° shape, like two slices of bread attached at the flat end.
The panty-waist, hand-wringing, bed-wetting, do-gooder libtards would have put him away for life, if he did that in todays pc gone wild environment.
23 lbs? Minimum standards in OCS was 40 lbs ruck alone for the 25km march.
Holy crap, I carried 23 lbs of water+IBAS+1,000 rounds for the M240+claymore+a couple of 60mm mortar rounds in the military....around 90-100 lbs.
And I turned out OK!
OK, that's a lie. ...I never seen snow.
“He did not feel that this was inappropriate at all and neither did his wife,” Garner told WXIA-TV.”
I would guess that about 95% of the "non-bleeding heart liberals" in the country would see nothing wrong with this "punishment". I was lucky to have a very good father... he came up with a lot of unconventional "punishments" as we were growing up. But we always knew that he cared about us. Whether or not the rest of us think it is "fair"... these "charges" sound like unconstitutional interference with this family's parental decision making process. It is time the nanny state started to back off.
"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.
These details are a big deal. Sounds like Pops was expressing hatred and trying to break the kid, not discipline him.
Big.Difference.
Dig a hole and then cover it back up. We had to fill in every foxhole we made in basic training. BTW, I heard this kid weighed about 150, which is too much for a 4' 2" person. I'm over 6' and weigh 174.
If you don’t work - you don’t eat.
http://youtu.be/Y2P__rDyyg0?t=5m59s
Then, I'll wait for all our real he-men here to check in on the punishment they impose on THEMSELVES when they really, really screw up.
Don't hold back, now. One or two examples per he-man will do.
Leni
Otherwise, I don't see the harm in it. No pain, no gain.
My dad just beat the cr@p out of me. Spare the rod....
Lets just say I wasn't spoiled.
“Police were altered to the boy’s punishment “
They were changed by the experience?
This is a black father trying to raise his son in a two-parent family. He does not want the kid playing video games and skipping his homework—like, no doubt, a good many of his classmates. I’d like to see First Degree Child Cruelty charges leveled against all the “single parent” mamas who do let their boys skip homework and play video games all day, at least until they get old enough to do some jail time.
I had my son outside moving rocks and raking with me last night. Boy was he mad! Asking if it was punishment. The middle of the night stuff is dumb, other than that, “SUCK IT UP, BUTTERCUP!!!!”
OMG. When I was a teenager I was bucking 100 to 120 pound hay bales from the ground to the back of trucks and trailers. And, that was all day, not just three hours at a time.
A pizza delivery driver saw a boy carrying a stone and called the cops.
What else is missing from this story?
I have other comments but I’m just going to withhold them...as I’m reacting on the basis of this horribly-written article.