Parents of the year award

[Service Staff Steve]

Everything was fine tonight until one little kid came into the cafeteria. I was working on the grill and started to hear a child yelling and screaming from behind. I looked back to see a boy of about 8 walking amongst the crowd of people just trying to be as loud and annoying as possible. Parents are nowhere to be found. I ignored him because I was too busy with other things and the kid eventually disappeared.

About five minuets later, the fire alarm goes off and I hear over the intercom: "code red, second floor, cafeteria". I think to myself "oh shit". I looked around and what do I see, the little bastard that was making all that noise pulled the fire alarm!

It turns out that the parents were sitting in the cafeteria the whole time and just let the kid wander around doing whatever he wanted. So, fire department comes, clears the alarm, talks to the boy and his parents and what do they say?

"I'm sure he's sorry, it's no big deal".
Your kid just pulled a fire alarm in a hospital because he has no discipline and statements like that just make it worse!

These people get my nomination for parents of the year, anyone have their one nominees?

[Mr Hero]

I hope the fire department fined their asses.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

Well let's see. When I was living in Minneapolis, we had some child with no concept of animal rights went onto the ice and kicked the geese that had their feet frozen into the ice on Lake of the Isles. I think they fined his folks $5,000 per bird and he had kicked 5 geese and thus amputated their feet.

I know one kid not going to college.

[Gruesome]

Well let's see. When I was living in Minneapolis, we had some child with no concept of animal rights went onto the ice and kicked the geese that had their feet frozen into the ice on Lake of the Isles. I think they fined his folks $5,000 per bird and he had kicked 5 geese and thus amputated their feet.

I know one kid not going to college.

I'm not a big fan of animal cruelty, but that seems excessive. $25,000 for some damn GEESE? Don't amputate - kill the damn things and make them into a Christmas dinner. Canadian Geese are like giant flying rats around here.

[jjllbb]

No big deal!!?? It's a criminal act!!!!!!!!!!!!! And they, as his parents are legally responsible for it! Toss 'em in the clink!

[EricKei]

Gruesome -- I don't think he meant that the geese had their feet surgically amputated later due to the damage; I think he meant that the kid's actions forcibly amputated the geese's feet right then and there....Which means they probably had to be killed soon after anyway, as they really would not have been able to do...well, anything...on their own after that.

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

I'm not a big fan of animal cruelty, but that seems excessive. $25,000 for some damn GEESE? Don't amputate - kill the damn things and make them into a Christmas dinner. Canadian Geese are like giant flying rats around here.

If I read that correctly, I think what was meant was that by kicking the stuck geese, it tore their footies off.

[Canarr]

Why on Earth were the geese frozen to the lake? Does it freeze so quickly there that they couldn't get their feet out of the water in time?

[tamezin]

I'm not a big fan of animal cruelty, but that seems excessive. $25,000 for some damn GEESE? Don't amputate - kill the damn things and make them into a Christmas dinner. Canadian Geese are like giant flying rats around here.

I think the fine was intended to be punitive. It doesn't matter that they were geese, it was the intent behind the action. He did it once and saw what happened and proceeded to do it 4 more times. OMG it is Ted Bundy jr. What the kid did was horrifying.

[tropicsgoddess]

Hopefully the parents of the year (and I use the term loosely) get some heavy fines for letting the little brat run amok. It would serve them right.

[trunks2k]

geese that had their feet frozen into the ice on Lake of the Isles.

I'm a horrible person because that part struck me as funny.

[Antisocial_Worker]

I'd like to nominate my own cousin. We suspect that he's a hitman for reasons that I will not go into, and we know for a fact that he takes his four year old girl to the cockfighting ring he runs. He holds her in his arms, in fact, while he goads the birds into doing their thing.

[taxguykarl]

OK, SSS, what happened when the local fire department found out about this? Tell me the kid got a lecture (at the very least). Preferably the parents got fined heavily. BTW, what does CPS think about their parenting practices?

[Mark Healey]

I'm not a big fan of animal cruelty, but that seems excessive. $25,000 for some damn GEESE? Don't amputate - kill the damn things and make them into a Christmas dinner. Canadian Geese are like giant flying rats around here.

It's not because they were Geese, It's because this sicko kid thinks it's fun to inflict pain on an innocent creature.

Even those of us who eat meat don't want the animals to be tortured to death.

[Mikkel]

Why on Earth were the geese frozen to the lake? Does it freeze so quickly there that they couldn't get their feet out of the water in time?

Not really, what happen is that the geese land on the lake in the evening when the top layer of the ice is thawed. They rest on the ice and during the night the ice freeze. The geese are then trapped till the lake thaw again.