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.
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.
bleacher laps, Walter Payton’s favorite.
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.
My daughter did 25 lbs for over 5 miles when she was into backpacking with me - and she was only 13.
I would temper my thoughts until I saw what he was made to carry it in.
You should see me in action when I get a family with boys . I’ll scream at them at the top of my lungs to “man up”. The reaction I get from the fathers is priceless. Usually a wink and two thumbs up because while he’d love to be able to say what I do he dares not.
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.
After this gymnastic olympian did a vault over a bar with a sprained ankle (winning the gold) there were a huge amount of articles about coaches pushing their athletes to the limit, but it didn’t talk about how coaches were PAID to make them the best!
Amazing moment, undoubtedly painful, which is why I don’t have the guts to do it.
Yet, Olympic coaches are paid well to push their athletes to the maximum, but later on, the athletes complain about being pushed the way they are.
“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.”
Unless you were 4’2” and 16 years old at the time I’m not sure that’s a valid comparison.
“And when you’re on your deathbed struggling for your last breath that may be their last words to you. ‘
And, maybe if you read between the lines you will see that “diverteach” is probably providing these families with a service. Perhaps he is teaching their sons to “dive”.
“Ahhh, I had to do that barefoot and in the snow!”
Feet! You had feet?
"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.
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