13 year old arrested for flatulance. Yes, in Florida.

[flvegan]

Maybe the 13-year-old student at Martin County's Spectrum Junior/Senior High thought he was being funny by repeatedly and purposely passing gas during computer class.

His teacher, D.C. Carden, didn't bust a gut over the boy's breaking wind -- not to mention his continuous turning off classroom computers -- so he gave the boy a referral and sent him packing to the school resource officer for a little talk.

SRO Warren Pettaway asked the (perhaps) obvious question: Did the boy deliberately cut the cheese (and the computer lines)? "He subsequently informed me it was factual, and I informed him as a result of his behavior he was being charged with Disruption of a School Function," Pettaway wrote in his report.

That's right. The boy was arrested for farting. He was released to his mom. No word on what he did in the car on the way home.

http://blogs.tampabay.com/schools/2008/11/flagrant-fragra.html

[lost-in-nj]

1. ok

I got nothing

:shrug:

just


:wtf: :wow:


lost

[Crabby Appleton]

2. it's about time the cops started cracking down on flatulators

[redqueen]

3. Just a guess here...

but it might have been more due to his turning off the computers than farting.



The most common onomatopoeia for farting in the UK that I've seen is *parp*.

[sasquatch]

4. And morons from the northeast still want to raise their children there

:crazy:

[Parche]

6. Imagine a Boxed wine fart?

:hi:

[DS1]

5. assault with a deadly air biscuit

[THUNDER HANDS]

7. between the kids and the seniors

I'm surprised gas masks aren't mandatory while inside anywhere in Florida.

[hobbit709]

9. There's what those constant "ocean breezes" really are.

[Deep13]

8. Arrested?

ATTN: Florida!

Get a life!

[rcrush]

10. Anyone that can fart on command like that deserves to be locked up

Seriously if I try to force a fart I'll shit my pants.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

11. Of course

you have to arrest them when they fart...One more fart and they get the chair

[Gidney N Cloyd]

12. He meant to do that.

[Danger Mouse]

13. Got nothin'.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

14. The comments

to the story are pretty funny:
Death Penalty next time, please.

Posted by: Chuck | November 21, 2008 at 03:13 PM

Next time kid go stealth. SBDs

Posted by: mike | November 21, 2008 at 03:25 PM

You have got to be joking on this. What a Nazi SRO he is. When did all behavoir issues befome crimes? This is one of the most far reaching miscarriges of justice I have read about in years.

Posted by: Tony | November 21, 2008 at 03:26 PM

He was released to his mom and his farter.

Posted by: mumbles | November 21, 2008 at 03:28 PM

The mark of a true man! At least he admitted it, and took the heat for it... C'mon guys, how many times have you farted and blamed the lady you were with for it?

Posted by: Jimmy Mack | November 21, 2008 at 03:30 PM

[QueenOfCalifornia]

15. Go here

and read the banner that scrolls across the page at his HS web site

http://spectrum.sbmc.org/

"TIME IS PASSING.....ARE YOU?"

:rofl:

[petronius]

16. I'm confused - there's no mention of a tasing in that story

Is FL going soft on us? (When farting schoolkids don't get zapped, the terrorists win...)

:)

[flvegan]

18. It's Martin County.

The 21st century is still a ways off.

j/k Martin County folks.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

21. Well, we're a blue state now, don't you forget.

:)

[petronius]

24. That's true - and in honor of that I would have refrained from posting,

except that the OP is Floridian and this is just too freakin' funny to ignore!

However, on several occasions, when things like this happen outside of FL, I have deliberately not posted comments like "What? Not Florida?" entirely out of respect for your blue acheivement.

(That forebearance won't last long, however, if y'all keep doing stuff like this... ;))

[PVnRT]

17. Anything to stop the increasing amounts of greenhouse gas emissions.

[Deja Q]

19. Sounds like this should be in GD-Pffft...

:hide:

[edbermac]

20. Some teen did that on a bus I was on a few years ago.

It was really noxious, and he and his buddies thought it was hilarious.

Until some woman reached into her purse, took a bottle of her perfume and sprayed it all over him.

[rug]

22. He has the right to remain silent.

[meow2u3]

25. No, rug, he has the right to remain silent but deadly

No, he can't pull my finger :rofl:

[meow2u3]

23. What's next? The gas chamber?

He'd have to supply his own gas. That would save the taxpayers the cost. :sarcasm: