Boy, 12, Arrested For Farting In Class- (Florida)

[Ichingcarpenter]

NOVEMBER 21--A 12-year-old Florida student was arrested earlier this month after he "deliberately passed gas to disrupt the class," according to police. The child, who was also accused of shutting off the computers of classmates at Stuart's Spectrum Jr./Sr. High School, was busted November 4 for disruption of a school function. A Martin County Sheriff's Office report, a copy of which you'll find below, notes that the 4' 11" offender admitted that he "continually disrupted his classroom environment by breaking wind and shutting off several computers.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/1121083gas1.html



Come on, you don't waste the police time on this!

[marmar]

1. Arrested? WTFF?

This country is really f**king :crazy:

[Ex Lurker]

12. here's what happens

teachers are so constrained in what they can do discipline-wise, that they're left with the option of not doing anything, or draconian measures like arrest.

[John Q. Citizen]

17. How do you know? I'm sure suspension, detention, or expulsion are all available.

As is parental influence.


Why would you think that only inaction or arrest are the only two options?

[silverojo]

25. Because teachers don't want to do their jobs

It's easier to call 911 than to make a 4'11" kid go to the principal's office. :eyes:

[Ex Lurker]

29. or because they're scared of being sued or physically attacked

I have a friend who teaches high school. He separated two girls fighting and one of them claimed he touched her inappropriately in the process. The claim was proven groundless, but he had to go through a big hassle in the meantime. Now he refuses to get involved--the cops get paid for that, let them do it is his philosophy. Other teachers have been threatened physically by students, and this is in a relatively good school. Then there are the parents who think their kids can do no wrong and won't back the schools on discipline. NCLB and other mandates make it almost impossible to get rid of troublemakers, and that's the real problem, which nobody wants to address. There are kids who have no business being in a traditional classroom setting, and who laugh at traditional forms of discipline.

There are absolutely teachers who don't do their job. But the system also makes it extremely difficult for them to do said job.

[Ex Lurker]

30. see my answer to sliverojo n/t

[Ilsa]

2. The arrest will only encourage other 12 year olds.

Geez, like we all haven't had to put up with a teenager farting in the church choir loft.

I wonder why the police went to the school, much less arrested the kid. Don't they have enough to do?

[Mari333]

3. Farting in class is an ART FORM for 12 yr old boys

to this day my oldest son is very proud of making noises with his armpits. and he is 30.
oh i see this happened in
FLORIDA.
(sorry floridians i couldnt resist)

[Selatius]

4. Two terms that private attorneys recognize: Rapacious and Arbitrary.

Would the student be in hand cuffs if he simply didn't stop talking in class instead of farting?

[my2sense]

5. Surely they have bigger fish to fry

I wonder how much it cost the gov't to spend time on this nonsense. Administrators at the school should have disciplined the kid right there at school if need be.

[JVS]

6. Send him to the gas chamber!

[LisaL]

7. I think there is enough gas in the story as it is.

[Historic NY]

8. Kids you need to chew sugarless gum..multiple packs and trust me

the wind you break will melt the glass. Even Chrystal Light candies will work but no more than 6 or you won't make the bathroom.

[FreeJG]

9. only in f-ing Florida!

[DearAbby]

10. Do you mean the concussion

of the explosive gas, shut off the computers? Or Did the little stinker, cut the cheese as well as the power?

[cliffordu]

11. His farts can shut off computers???? how about alarm systems??

BANK HEIST!!!!

[sakabatou]

13. This should go on Adam Carolla's show section

"Germany or Florida."

[Cheap_Trick]

14. At least they didn't taser him

[TahitiNut]

15. You wouldn't want a spark in all that methane.

:evilgrin:

[Cheap_Trick]

28. bwah ha ha

[Dr.Phool]

16. I made a fresh pot of chili yesterday.

I could get the death penalty.

[Swamp Rat]

18. Mondays, like most New Orleanians, I eat red beans and rice.

I put lethal amounts of Cayenne pepper in it, and often add spicy alligator andouille sausage. I'll be a walking, breathing bio-weapon by sunset. :D

[trusty elf]

19. Finally a good reason to have shrub arrested?

:shrug:

Paul Bedard of U.S. News & World Report raised a few eyebrows this week when he went public about President George W. Bush's fondness for…well…farts.

Yep. The President farts - a lot. He farts in front of other White House staffers. He likes to joke about farts, cusses constantly and laughs with glee at the misfortune of others.




http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_9415.shtml

[Crunchy Frog]

22. Well, you can kind of see it in his face.

[Hekate]

20. What do they do for the armpit-symphonists and the belch-talkers? Hang them on the spot?

Florida justice!

Hekate

[Crunchy Frog]

21. I'm going to have to start making a list,

for my boys, of all the things they could potentially be arrested for. I think it's just about become illegal to be a kid in this country.

[mb7588a]

23. Bummer. On Election Day too!

I would have been sentenced to years in jail if this were true when I was in school.

[mb7588a]

24. Finally..

The "He who smelt it, dealt it" defense will be put to the ultimate test!

[Downtown Hound]

26. Whoa, I just committed a crime! n/t

[geomon666]

27. Geez can this state be any more fucking dumb?

This has to be the worst state in the union.

[rebel with a cause]

31. Ten years ago, in Illinois

we had a twelve year old attempt to murder someone. He failed but did thousands of dollars of property damage in his attempt. Because of his age, no legal action could be taken because we had a infancy law for children under the age of thirteen. He was put in a mental ward of a hospital for a few days and then returned to the children's home where he lived.

That infancy law has been dropped I believe here, but it is just weird to me that a twelve year old boy in one state could get by with attempted murder and another boy the same age in another state could get arrested for farting. (even if it was ten years apart)