168 DEGREES MEASURED! PAUL PENZONE FOR AZ SHERIFF!

[lonestarnot]

Last edited Tue Aug 14, 2012, 11:25 AM - Edit history (1)

off the top of Sheriff R Pie Hole's tent roofs at tent city.

http://www.penzone2012.com/

[CrispyQ]

1. Inhumane. -nt

[lonestarnot]

13. Yes.

[procon]

2. I live in the Mojave Desert

There are several large state and private prisons in the area and all of them are air conditioned. Its not a matter of "coddling" those inmates, but a basic human health and safety issue.

Its a very dry heat here, the humidity is i the low teens, but almost every week there is a story in the local paper about someone collapsing on the street due to heat stroke. It happened to me when I was a much younger woman, and I was just watching a baseball game at the park, but I nearly died. Now, it probably would kill me.

I went to school in Arizona where the high humidity combined with very high temps limited most outdoor activities. I can't imagine pinning human beings up under those conditions; its barbaric.

[demosincebirth]

3. Yesterday I was driving through Modesto, Ca to see my sister. I went past a high school and to my

surprise I saw teenagers running laps around the track. I could not believe that they would make them kids run with temperatures 105-107 degrees at 3Pm. Ridiculous.

[lonestarnot]

4. Charter/voucher school.

[demosincebirth]

5. Public.

[lonestarnot]

8. Welp then, as a member of the public, why didn't you stop in and give them a piece of your opinion

re that dangerous activity?

[demosincebirth]

9. Yep, next time. nt

[TheMightyFavog]

6. Could be football practice, too.

I thought all the state's high school sports governing bodies got together and drew up regs to curtail outdoor practices in extreme heat...

[demosincebirth]

7. Naw, they were in gym shorts and were too skinny to for football. Actually, the school could have

been a junior high school... the kids were a little young looking.

[Nevernose]

10. I live across the street from a Las Vegas high school

They practice from 5 to 9 outside. It's hot as hell then, but not dangerously so. Every coach I know, and I know many of them, is almost obsessive-compulsive on the subject of heat stroke. Even the marching band goes from 5 to 8. Construction workers hours in the summer are usually 430 or 5 until 1230 or 1. If they were practicing in the afternoon, in most states it would be a serious violation.

[Xithras]

12. Lol. They know how to keep the kids healthy.

I live near Modesto. My kids go to Modesto schools. That may have been my kid on that track

Hot summers are the norm in this area and MCS has protocols in place that protect the kids pretty well. They run, but are limited as to how long they can stay out. I don't remember the PE schedule, but my son is in his HS marching band, and their drill pattern is "20 minutes outside, 10 minutes inside, water every 5".

Of course, at 3PM that wouldn't have been a PE class anyway. School would have been out already, so those were probably student athletes at practice.

[lonestarnot]

11. KICK!