Father Arrested For Making Teenage Son Carry 23-Pound Brick For Miles

Headlines & Global News ^ | May 28, 2014 | Oulimata Ba

[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.

[Tammy8]

Me too, and I was a tiny girl- just 5’ and didn’t weigh 100 pounds. I did the same stuff after I married and left home- hubby once fired a guy from the ranch and told him “my wife can do more work than you while packing a baby” as he sent him on his way.

Our society is spoiling people, raising worthless children and we are paying for it. Things go wrong with the little darlings and they snap when they don’t get their own way- people wonder why.

People better hope things work out, if things fall apart in this country there are sure a lot of people not mentally or physically able to survive hardship.

[deport]

A local story at the following link. The pizza delivery man gave him a ride.
Later he saw him again, he stopped and asked the boy some questions. That is when
it came to light what was going on. “I didn’t know what to do, but I called the police
and just let them know what was going on and they took it from there.”

Link:
http://www.douglascountysentinel.com/news/article_cda80846-e52f-11e3-8318-0017a43b2370.html

[Talisker]

Discipline versus abuse is a matter of degree. From the description of the continuous repetitions of intense, demeaning and publically shaming punishments which should, if properly used, be accompanied by contextual education and be rarely repeated (if ever), this looks instead like brutality of an intense degree, with a goal of a certain level of psychological destruction in mind. In a father-son relationship I’d call that criminal.

[lightman]

The discipline may sound cruel to the libtards, but the lad is much less likely to end up making small rocks out of big rocks in shackles.

[SJackson]

That’s true, but knowing nothing about the nature of his son’s refusal to do chores and do schoolwork, or any prior attempts at discipline, there’s nothing to work with in making a determination. If this was a reaction to not doing homework once the same day he refused to take out the garbage, and watched a video instead, harsh but not criminal. I’m assuming this was pattern behavior, and previous efforts controlling it failed. But that’s my assumption based on little more than implications in the articles.

[SJackson]

I don’t think it’s necessarily liberals, I’ve noticed on the thread that it sounds more normal to veterans and those in rural areas, or with physical jobs. I suppose making a small 16 year old carry a 23 pound rock seems bizarre beyond cruel if you or friends hadn’t done it at a much younger age. Large urban areas being liberal generally, there’s going to be a connection.

[Delta Dawn]

You r persistent...My confusion was about the part where He-Men screw up?

I didn’t think He-Men could screw up. I guess they could get married or something like that...

[steve86]

push my 720 lb Harley up the driveway to stay in shape

I'm looking at a used Gas Gas Pro 270 -- 146 lbs dry. Even that's too much if you have to drag it up a steep sidehill. Hoping I never have to do that but common off singletrack trails in the mountains.

[Nik Naym]

“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.”

My screw up: I got married over a quarter century ago.

My punishment for screwing up: I’m still married.

[Fast Moving Angel]

A 23-pound landscaping stone? Geez. I was no more than 10 when my folks decided to rebuild our patio. I swung an 8-pound sledge hammer to break up old concrete, hauled the concrete around, and carried those big cinder blocks (one on each shoulder) up the steps from the backyard. Probably why my knees are screwed up now, but, oh, well ...

[MinuteGal]

Never said that, never intimated that, never even addressed that issue. Try again.

Leni

[MinuteGal]

I haven't the faintest idea what your post means. However, it has nothing to do with the questions I raised on my post.

Another threat, you may be the one outta here.

Leni

[Arthur McGowan]

Was he made to carry the stone in a backpack, or in his hands? Big difference.

This father sounds like a weak moron. Where was he while his son was developing his video game addiction?

[Arthur McGowan]

If they are there at all.

[Arthur McGowan]

There are tens and tens of millions of men walking around who have murdered their own fatherhood in that way, and they don’t even know it. They think the cold, strained, or non-existent relationship they have with their sons is “normal.” (Which, btw, was one of the main goals of those who introduced government schooling into the U.S. from Prussia.)

There’s a true story about a nun and a priest who worked as chaplains in a prison. One prisoner requested the nun to get him a Mother’s Day card, which she did. When word got around, nearly every prisoner wanted one, and the nun and the priest set about obtaining them. When Fathers’ Day came around, they did it again, obtaining boxes of cards. Not one single prisoner requested one.

[xzins]

4’2” is small for a 16 year old. But we weren’t told how tall the father is.

Moving rocks, road marches with full packs, digging and filling holes....sounds like basic training to me.

3 am on a road march would probably not have happened, but we did have night time road marches.

My dad wasn’t into sparing the rod either. If I had to choose a 3 mile road march or dad blowing up, I’d have gone for the road march and jogged.

FWIW, our road march packs were 40 lbs in the Army in basic, ait, and air assault schools.

[Future Snake Eater]

These details are a big deal. Sounds like Pops was expressing hatred and trying to break the kid, not discipline him.

Big.Difference.

That's how it comes across to me, too.

[vpintheak]

Good on ya! I grew up on a farm and although it wasn’t a diary farm, there were the pre-school chores to do. 6 am was regular wake-up time.
What a crock how pansy-behinded our society has become!

[Myrddin]

That’s a nice bike. I kept my Yamaha TW200 and sold the XT250 and DR650SE. I’m never home to ride offroad. My two Harleys, 2 kawasakis, 1 Honda and 1 Piaggio are good street bikes. The TW200 weighs about 280 lbs. I can toss that around on the single track. Top speed is 59 MPH, so good
enough around town.

[steve86]

I can toss that around on the single track.

Every year one or two bikes (usually enduros) wind up going down the cliffs into the Walla Walla river past Harris Park. Generally it is a relatively inexperienced rider being introduced to single track. Often requires a winch or jerry-rigged pulleys and several people to get it back up to the trail, hopefully before the Forest Service sees it (if it is spilling gas or oil). However, people have successfully ridden the trail with bikes as large as a KLR650 (no way would I attempt that!).

The part of the trail in the photo is not a particularly difficult or high or narrow part but it is the same trail. In some places much steeper sidehill and higher above river with crumbly rocks on trail.