My favorite NFL star. He was a great person! Sweetness!
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.
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.
Thanks for reminding me of the worst punishment in my high school years - and you had better not miss a single step.
My kid is 10, half-way to 11, and he's 4'-10" and gaining rapidly. Supposedly he's gonna hit 6'-4".
If you don’t work - you don’t eat.
http://youtu.be/Y2P__rDyyg0?t=5m59s
Was it uphill both ways? ;^)
Wrestling turnouts were in the gym of the old, no longer used for classes, high school building. Basement to top (4th) floor, down the hall, back down the other staircase and repeat until the coach took pity on the team.
My favorite NFL star. He was a great person! Sweetness!
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.
I was one of the tallest kids in the seventh grade. I've lost an inch since then.
Back when I was 12 I was subjected to a similar torture. It was called a paper route.
Those Sunday papers are pretty darn heavy.
We are raising a nation of wimps.
“Police were altered to the boy’s punishment “
They were changed by the experience?
It has been a long time since I was 12. I'm 57 now. Time has stolen an inch of height. I'm 5' 11" and 176 lbs. I've been as low as 162 lb at age 40, but that was a consequence of inline speed skating 60 miles a week and taking my sons to an indoor rink 6 hours a week. Now, I just tap away at the keyboard...and push my 720 lb Harley up the driveway to stay in shape.
He-Men of the Freep, arise!
Leni
Possibly, I'm fine with the rock carrying, particularly if the child is overweight as some have suggested. 3am might be a problem if he was unaccompanied. Moving rocks back and forth, might be pointless, would have to know the circumstances. As many on the thread have stated, and I can attest to, such "pointless" discipline is quite common in the military, and the kid's only a year or so off.
MinuteGal: I'm waiting for all he-men posting here to check in on this thread with the punishment they impose on THEIR teen-age sons when they want to punish them really GOOD for some infraction.
Worst I can recall isn't that far off, making him regravel a dog run and driveway. Good exercise. Obviously we don't know everything here, and can only go by the statements in the article. If he was depriving him of food and water, or beating him along the route, that's a different issue. But consider that Cruelty to Children in the First Degree carries a minimum sentence of five years, up to twenty, and requires malicious intent. I don't see cruel or malicious pain here, much less malicious intent. I wouldn't put this guy away for five years. The fact that the Judge appears to have recomended family counceling makes me think this will probably go away. Except when dad applies for a job, and answers the question about ever being arrested (not convicted) for a felony or a crime carrying a penalty of more than one year, Yes.
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!!!!”
So unless a “real” man punishes himself he should just let his teen age son do whatever the hell he wants. Interesting logic you have.
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.
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