Go To Jail
April 15, 2003 9:16 AM   Subscribe

Sixth-grader goes to jail for stomping in a mud puddle. Police called it a proper arrest.
posted by Ron (25 comments total)
 
Time out.
posted by The Jesse Helms at 9:17 AM on April 15, 2003


Most. Fucked up. Country. Ever.

Also: It's a four year old Court TV article.
posted by armoured-ant at 9:18 AM on April 15, 2003


Yep, heard it on the radio today. Thought it was interesting, though old.
posted by Ron at 9:21 AM on April 15, 2003


Ron: "I'll post that article someday.... I'll post that article someday."
posted by jon_kill at 9:24 AM on April 15, 2003


It's bizarre. What the article fails to explain is who actually called the cops.

At that point, Langer took the sixth-grader to a school office where the boy was cuffed, put in a patrol car and taken to jail.

Do they keep cuffs and patrol cars in school offices now? All quite alarming.
posted by armoured-ant at 9:29 AM on April 15, 2003


"Kyle's family say he has a hyperactive disorder and is in a class with similar children. Langer should have taken that into account before arresting him, they say."
Compassionate.
posted by Outlawyr at 9:30 AM on April 15, 2003


I bet Katherine Harris was behind it.
posted by billder at 9:35 AM on April 15, 2003






Most. Fucked up. Country. Ever.

Please, save the drama. It could have been worse, they could have cut his feet off.

Thanks internal... there's ALWAYS a little more to the story somewhere.
posted by Witty at 10:01 AM on April 15, 2003


Do they keep cuffs and patrol cars in school offices now?

Well, keeping a patrol car in an office might be a problem.

That being said, the elementary school at which my children attend has a patrol car in the parking lot during, before, and for a while after school hours. During the school day, the officer will alternatively patrol the parking lot or sit in the office. He's there for the children's protection -- which is fine with me. I think we all know how many child-abduction horror stories there are in the news these days.
posted by thanotopsis at 10:38 AM on April 15, 2003


This stuff should be solved with detention or some other kind of in-shool method. Arresting him doesn't help one bit.
posted by Dillenger69 at 10:46 AM on April 15, 2003


On a slightly different note, am I the only one that thinks this seemingly ever-growing epidemic of "hyperactive" kids has a lot less to do with brain chemistry than it does with over-indulgent parenting?

"Oh, look at our little Kyle. It's so cute the way he keeps acting like a total ass!"
posted by Polo Mr. Polo at 10:56 AM on April 15, 2003


Polo Mr. Polo, that parenting style brought us our current President.
posted by Outlawyr at 11:04 AM on April 15, 2003


That being said, the elementary school at which my children attend has a patrol car in the parking lot during, before, and for a while after school hours.

It's really sad that for budgetary reasons the school nurse is largely a thing of the past, but we have to have a school police officer.
posted by George_Spiggott at 11:08 AM on April 15, 2003


Please, save the drama. It could have been worse, they could have cut his feet off.

Dear me. Yes, yes, of course it could be worse. But anything could be worse. I mean. MetaFilter could be worse. Matt could be cutting our feet off. But he isn't, and that's always nice.

In a country with the intelligence that you'd expect from that amount of money, surely this sort of thing shouldn't happen. Right? Fact is, it's not some conveniently referencable Eastern nation where a handectomy is a suitable punishment for pickpocketing. Which is good.

Those Handectomy Nations could be worse too. They could be skinning alive and raping the desperate pickpocket. But hey aren't. Question is, why in Hell are they cutting people's hands off?
posted by armoured-ant at 11:12 AM on April 15, 2003


"Oh, look at our little Kyle. It's so cute the way he keeps acting like a total ass!"

While Halloween night made Citrus Country residents flinch, perhaps no other alleged crime got them talking more than the puddle-jumping incident.

How many kids are 12 in 6th grade? At that age in 6th grade(fall was when this happened); think he could behave better being older than most. But this maybe is the tip to his behavior problem.

Kyle was charged with misdemeanor disruption of school for trying to grab Langer's wallet, then jumping into a puddle to splash him. Kyle was booked and taken to jail.

But in an amended report, Langer suggested Kyle tried to grab his gun after acting up and saying he wanted to shoot himself, before the splashing.

So he was arrested for? Being 12 in the 6th grade..
The account appeared to turn sympathy toward the deputy in a year that featured several school-related crimes that had parents fearing for their children.
posted by thomcatspike at 11:21 AM on April 15, 2003


You know, I'm actually inclined to be suspicious of the cop and principal's account of what happened. Firstly, because their story changed so dramatically, and secondly because I've known power-tripping school administrators who would have no compunctions about defaming the kid in order to save their own asses...
posted by kaibutsu at 11:31 AM on April 15, 2003


It's things like this that lead me to suspect I've just woken up in MajorPayneLand.
posted by prototype_octavius at 11:46 AM on April 15, 2003


You have cops full-time at elementary schools down there?

Please, tell me this isn't a common thing in the USA.

Because if it is, that's one of the most fucked-up things I've heard about your country. Y'all ever thought about trying to be civilized?
posted by five fresh fish at 12:40 PM on April 15, 2003


This article is about 30 months old. Why is it just being posted now?
posted by oaf at 12:47 PM on April 15, 2003


I suck at mental math. It's older than that. Old enough to be too old.
posted by oaf at 12:49 PM on April 15, 2003


Oaf:

Yep, heard it on the radio today. Thought it was interesting, though old.
posted by Ron at 5:21 PM GMT on April 15


Third comment from the top.
Pay attention. There'll be test at the end of the thread.
posted by armoured-ant at 2:31 PM on April 15, 2003


am I the only one that thinks this seemingly ever-growing epidemic of "hyperactive" kids has a lot less to do with brain chemistry than it does with over-indulgent parenting?

I can't speak to hyperactivity in general, or the details of ADD or ADHD, but I can tell you from direct experience that there is a very real increase in the rate of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Multiple studies from around the world have confirmed that the increase is real, and not just a matter of misdiagnosis or previously undiagnosed cases being identified. There is something that is effecting the way children's brains develop, and it is not much of a stretch for me to believe that ADD and ADHD is a very real thing.

Sure there are cases of kids being diagnoses as "hyperactive" when they really aren't.... but I think that is not nearly as common as most people assume.
posted by Lokheed at 6:20 PM on April 15, 2003


Welcome to the Bush Admin's America. Yes, it is their fault.
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