Police: Father Beat Son for Taking Too Long to Do Homework

Well, according the the Bush administration, [WIKI]waterboarding[/WIKI] the child would be okay...if you really weren't gonna drown him, and it was done in another country.

Well, (A) I don't watch The Sopranos, and (B) it's called "fiction."

So how often do you beat your kids?

You ever answer a call like this one, Elwood? Tell us the funny parts.

Then why do you laugh?

Because it's that or cry.

Laughter is indeed the best cure for sorrow.

Hmm... tell that to the kid that got beat by the 2x4.

All right, replace Tina - who should have had the guts to walk the hell away from that relationship - with a 13-year-old kid.

You still laughing?

Tina Turner was somehow more to blame for her beatings than a 13-year old child?

I can find humor in a lot of things. One thing you should be learning is that cops have a very, very perverse sense of humor.

I once worked a case where a local dealer shorted his supplier. The supplier came to town and decided to make an example out of the dealer. They tied him to a lawn chair, doused him in gasoline, and threw a match to him.

The BBQ jokes were endless because you either laugh or you cry and I choose the former in most cases.

^I'm not playing your game today. Move along home.

[baba]Ted was beat as a child for being too fat.[/baba]

Now now, denial hurts. Why not tell us what daddy did when you misspelled a word?

Make it more generic.

Two identical crimes. All else is perfectly equal except for the age, race or gender of the two victims. Why is one crime more severe than the other?

So you are comparing this kid and his "crime" of taking too long to do his homework, to a local dealer who shorted his supplier? Interesting view of this story Elwood.

The ability of the victim to defend themselves... the power of the attacker psychologically over the other.

But the crime is the same.

Is a murder victim that fought back any less a murder victim?

What's the difference between an adult and a child?

And how often do you beat your kids?

I do understand gallows humor, having had parents in the EMS since I was five. I still can't comprehend is how you find the story funny... In any way.

What? "Hi, polarslam." Yeah, I read the words just fine. Must be some sort of in-joke. Or a diversion from the topic. Please elaborate.

Actually, my father was a lousy speller.

Not really the same, depending on the crime. Crimes can have aggravating factors that change the charge, and sentence sought by prosecutors... the difference, when you change out the vicitm, is simple assault, versus child abuse... different crimes.

Not you, Ted. Due to the board taking for freakin' ever to do anything, some posts made their way in between his and mine.

Evidently not.

Yes...several different motivations can lead to the same crime, and the same crime can have different names and result in a wide array of sentences...all depending on the victim.

But the criminal act itself is the same.

Oh, I do. From the sly comment about the fatality TA when the dash board wrapped itself around the guys neck and the bobble head comment, to hundreds of others I've made and forgotten over the years...


However I've always held that there are two situations which I cannot ever joke about and I can never understand those who do. One of those is the abuse of a child.

Depends. Is Laurance Fishburne still jamming cake in the kids face and yelling, "Eat the cake Anna mae! Eat the cake!"

Sounds like the guy was using a piece of 2x4 as a paddle on the kids ass. That kid aught to see a real whoopin so he would know how lucky he has it. Let him trade that board paddle in on that fiberglass rod from a bicycle flag thingy that my dad used to use on me. The muscles in my legs would be so sore it was hard to walk at first in the morning, like charley horses or whatever. Why did he tie the kid up? With my dad you knew not to move. Hey, I wonder if it hurt the dad more than it did the kid

Bastard got the playbook for a mule, not a kid. Collossal fuckup he'll pay dearly for. Waaaaay over the line.

Implement aside, sounds like he'd just had enough bullshit from the kid.

He chose...., poorly.

Part of me kinda hopes it knocked some sense into the kid as to the importance in life of getting your work done in a timely manner.

Right lesson, wrong exercise.