Perhaps A Public Caning Is In Order?

dales · Post by **dales** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 8:35 pm

High school bullies in Omaha, Neb., chose a deaf student as their victim in a sickening incident that has gained national attention, KMTV reported.

The mean-spirited students dumped the contents of Alex Hernandez's backpack into a toilet.

Alex, a senior, had left his backpack on a chair while getting some food Wednesday in the cafeteria of Burke High School. When he returned, it was gone.

Alex told school administrators, but a search proved fruitless. However, when school security video was examined, two male students were seen walking off with his bag.

"Those students think it's okay to bully a deaf student, but it's not. It's not okay to bully someone who is disabled, deaf or hard of hearing," Hernandez told KMTV. "Or anyone for that matter."

The backpack contained his tablet, a debit card, school supplies, a battery for his cochlear implant and his homework. It was the homework that really bothered him. The toilet dousing ruined his English project.

"I was very upset because I know I work really hard on my project and homework because I just want to make my mom to be happy and know that I did a good job on the homework," he told KMTV.

According to the station, school administrators told Alex's mother that the students who took the backpack were eventually identified and that one has been suspended. The pair claim they didn't know Alex was deaf.

The incident remains under investigation. Meanwhile Alex's mother has pulled the boy out of Burke High so he can transfer to another high school.

Alex's sister and some of his friends set up a GoFundMe page to raise money to replace the ruined items. The goal was reached, and the account has since been closed.

Jarlaxle · Post by **Jarlaxle** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 10:21 pm

Criminal charges and prison time.

BoSoxGal · Post by **BoSoxGal** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 10:27 pm

Lord Jim · Post by **Lord Jim** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 10:32 pm

The pair claim they didn't know Alex was deaf.

Oh, well that's alright then...

kristina · Post by **kristina** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 11:29 pm

grrrr...

How does someone reach the age of 17 or 18 thinking that this is ever, under any circumstance, acceptable behavior?

Gob · Post by **Gob** » Wed Sep 07, 2016 3:37 am

Alex should be allowed a free kick.

Lord Jim · Post by **Lord Jim** » Wed Sep 07, 2016 3:52 am

Gob wrote:Alex should be allowed a free kick.

No, he should be allowed a free flaying with a baseball bat...

rubato · Post by **rubato** » Wed Sep 07, 2016 6:17 pm

Lord Jim wrote:
Gob wrote:Alex should be allowed a free kick.
No, he should be allowed a free flaying with a baseball bat...

You either need a different verb or a different instrument.

A bat is a highly improbable instrument for flaying.

Yrs,
Rubato

MajGenl.Meade · Post by **MajGenl.Meade** » Wed Sep 07, 2016 6:24 pm

That's what I almost flayed but you've flayved me the bother

Jarlaxle · Post by **Jarlaxle** » Wed Sep 07, 2016 7:00 pm

A barbed wire scourge might work better.

Joe Guy · Post by **Joe Guy** » Wed Sep 07, 2016 7:59 pm

I've always thought 'Flay' meant to beat the shit out of something. So I looked it up at Merriam-Webster and to my surprise it says: to beat or whip (someone or something) in a very violent and severe way.

Of course, that's the 'Simple' definition but one must consider the audience here...

Big RR · Post by **Big RR** » Wed Sep 07, 2016 8:38 pm

Joe Guy--I had never heard that definition; the American Heritage Dictionary defines it as to strip off the skin of; decorticate; it defines flog as "to beat severely". I guess usages can vary.

Bicycle Bill · Post by **Bicycle Bill** » Wed Sep 07, 2016 9:33 pm

I wonder if you're confusing "flay" with "flail".

flail (flāl/)
as a noun:
1.  a threshing tool consisting of a wooden staff with a short heavy stick swinging from it; a device similar to a flail, used as a
weapon or for flogging; a machine having an action similar to a flail, used for threshing or slashing ("a flail hedge trimmer")

as a verb
1.  wave or swing or cause to wave or swing wildly ("his arms were flailing helplessly"; "he fell headlong, his arms flailing";
     "I was flailing about in the water")
2.  beat; flog ("he escorted them, flailing their shoulders with his cane")

-"BB"-

MajGenl.Meade · Post by **MajGenl.Meade** » Wed Sep 07, 2016 10:52 pm

flay
flā/
verb
verb: flay; 3rd person present: flays; past tense: flayed; past participle: flayed; gerund or present participle: flaying

peel the skin off (a corpse or carcass).
"one shoulder had been flayed to reveal the muscles"
synonyms: skin, strip the skin off; excoriate
"the body was flayed to show the musculature"
peel (the skin) off a corpse or carcass.
"she flayed the white skin from the flesh"
whip or beat (someone) so harshly as to remove their skin.
"Matthew flayed them viciously with a branch"

I suppose it might be possible to flay someone with a baseball bat - but not really. The branch was more useful because the twigs etc would excoriate the skin.

Joe Guy · Post by **Joe Guy** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 1:19 am

This discussion reminds me of an old favorite song of mine...

Ah, ha, ha, ha, flayin' alive, flayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, flayin' alive......

Gob · Post by **Gob** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 1:21 am

We SO need an "ouch" button!

BoSoxGal · Post by **BoSoxGal** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 2:24 am

RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 3:20 am

And don't forget Bobby:

oldr_n_wsr · Post by **oldr_n_wsr** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 5:34 pm

Would this story have been even published (let alone gain national attention) if the kid wasn't deaf?

Seems more like stupid teenagers pranks than anything else.

Bicycle Bill · Post by **Bicycle Bill** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 9:22 pm

oldr_n_wsr wrote:Would this story have been even published (let alone gain national attention) if the kid wasn't deaf?

Seems more like stupid teenagers pranks than anything else.

Would 80% or so of the shit we read about nowadays have even been published if it wasn't for the internet and social media sites? Sure, there were always assholes at the mall, busybodies who couldn't be bothered to mind their own business, or stuff like the kids dumping a backpack into the toilet, and it might even have made it into a local paper somewhere. But it wasn't until the internet with its bloggers, constantly hungry for something — anything! — to publish to keep their site hits up came along, as well the rise of social media sites coupled with the voluntary abdication of privacy to the point that what would have been kept to one's self is now proudly displayed to anyone with a computer that we started to become deluged with these reports of mischief, malfeasance, and mayhem.

We have reached a point where anybody can write and publish literally anything, and so long as they have a web connection the whole world is their audience.

-"BB"-

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