I fought the law and the law...

[jobycom]

dropped the case because the witness failed to show up.

For anyone who remembers this story from a few months back, my spouse and I got charged with contributing to the non-attendance of a minor, meaning my wife got my daughter to school late somewhere in the neighborhood of 62 times. I brought her to school about a quarter of the time, and never got her late. My spouse wanted to bring her, because she wanted more contact with my daughter's school. I would ask her sometimes, as a joke, mostly, whether she was getting her to school on time, because she's had issues with that at her own job. She always said yes.

Near the end of the year I learned that the answer was a dramatic "no" when I received a summons to court for a misdemeanor charge.

Anyway, tonight was the court date. The witness for the school didn't show. The charges were dropped. I'm a free man!

[WCGreen]

1. Yahoo......

Now on to child endargement charges for not putting a helmet on your childs head when on a swing set.....

[jobycom]

3. No kidding, eh?

I was arguing with a cop friend once about how many rules parents had to follow, and said something about parents not having any rights over their own kids. He didn't blink, and he wasn't joking, he said "kids don't belong to the parents, they belong to the state."

This guy is now a captain of the Austin PD.

[WCGreen]

6. Kind a makes you wonder.....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Ah, my dear jobycom!

How well I remember this story of yours, and how outraged I was at the time!

I am very pleased to see that the charges were dropped, and that you are now a free man!


:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[jobycom]

4. Thanks!

:woohoo:

[Wapsie B]

5. I had a similar problem with my daughter.

She had some health problems that got worse the 2nd semester of last year and missed school because of it. We had a meeting with the school where we discussed her problems and worked out a plan to help her with school. The school was fully aware of her problems and still filed truancy charges against us! Needless to say I was steamed. :grr:

At first I was going to let the issue slide and go to court. But the more I thought about it the angrier I became. I ended up fighting it and the case was dismissed. But the school didn't let me know until the time of trial that they dropped the charges. Assholes.

:nuke: My mom and I are a lot alike. We're both as quiet as church mice but push us just a little too far and god help you if you do.

So I know what you went through.

[existentialist]

7. Congratulations

(in my experience a not uncommon result when the powers that be start to charge too many people with too many offenses and hence come to lack the determination to follow thorough. . . .)

(and I do have some experience . . .)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

8. Well there's one less thing on your head

Glad it all turned out ok.

[jobycom]

9. Is that a

bald joke!? :-)