A school district tried to deal with post-school traffic madness by imposing a rule that parents had to line up in their cars, stretching a half-mile, outside the school to pick up their kids... They didn’t consider the possibility that any parent might want to bypass the line and pick up their kids on foot . . . when dad Jim Howe showed up on foot to retrieve his kids after school was out but before the line of cars had done its thing, he was told he had to wait in line like everybody else; never mind that he wasn’t driving a car. When Howe asked for his kids to be released to him, the deputy sheriff apparently took it as a challenge to his authority and, to make a long story short, handcuffed Howe and put him in the back of a law enforcement vehicle.
This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. I was expecting buddy in his tap out shirt to be a dick but he was so polite and matter of fact I find it hard to believe this Deputy isn't in a lot of hot water. Good gravy.
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This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. I was expecting buddy in his tap out shirt to be a dick but he was so polite and matter of fact I find it hard to believe this Deputy isn't in a lot of hot water. Good gravy.
Agreed he was calm, but clearly this was planned and he has a "beef" with the school and the policy. I don't believe this just happend one day when he came to pick up his kids. I think it was a planned confrontation.
Agreed he was calm, but clearly this was planned and he has a "beef" with the school and the policy. I don't believe this just happend one day when he came to pick up his kids. I think it was a planned confrontation.
That may be the case, but it doesn't really matter. He handled himself correctly while the Sheriffs Deputy did not. If there truly is an issue with this school's policy that does impact child safety and causes traffic congestion, than this is potentially a very effective way to draw attention to it and get the policy changed.
The Deputy Sheriff reminds me of the expression "those who want power are the ones that shouldn't have it".
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I love the part where he says "when school is out they will give you your child but it doesn't say WHEN now does it?"
Ah...ya it does....WHEN SCHOOL IS OUT.
Around the 4:10 mark of the vid.
And he's being arrested for being disorderly? Pretty broad definition he has there. And if I'm not mistaken, he pushed the girl with the camera out of the way at the end there, can they not charge him with assault?
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That may be the case, but it doesn't really matter. He handled himself correctly while the Sheriffs Deputy did not. If there truly is an issue with this school's policy that does impact child safety and causes traffic congestion, than this is potentially a very effective way to draw attention to it and get the policy changed.
The Deputy Sheriff reminds me of the expression "those who want power are the ones that shouldn't have it".
To be clear, I would have love my #### on him......but as I said this is a planned and executed confrontation........which as you can see is kind of like waiting to pick on kids from the short bus.......
The Sherrif arrested him with no grounds, he wasn't disorderly in the least. The Sherrif was, and arrested the father when the father was making complete sense.
I don't know the state law of Tennessee, but the sheriff didn't like it when it was quoted to him.
"It doesn't say when now does it?"
"In a reasonable amount of time."
Now the Sherrif is stuck with saying having the father wait on foot in the mile long traffic is reasonable, or release the kids. So he arrests him and doesn't let the wife take the house key.
Seriously? I'd love to see how this plays out.
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Upon further reading the Huffington Post tries to show both sides of the story. However in their attempt to show the school's side I have an even bigger issue.
Parents aren't allowed in the school because the PTA was fearful for child safety. So they instituted the new pickup rules and guidelines which aren't legally binding.
You can't arrest someone for violating your non-legal rules. That's like me arresting you for wearing a Canucks jersey on my property.
You are an idiot if you don't think stuff similar to this is happening all over the place. Including here in Canada.
Not really though. Everyone has their share of dumb idiots and narrow-minded thinking, but it's never really taken to the same extreme as it is in the US. With both good and bad, taking things to the extreme is the most American of qualities.
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Not really though. Everyone has their share of dumb idiots and narrow-minded thinking, but it's never really taken to the same extreme as it is in the US. With both good and bad, taking things to the extreme is the most American of qualities.
This is a news story and is spreading based on its uniqueness.
The U.S. is almost 10x the size of Canada. I would presume it also then has 10x+ the amount of news sources. All the websites I visit on the net are U.S. based or Canada based so a story has to be really crazy for it to cross the ponds and for me to see it. The more people in the U.S. also are the ones helping spread the stories, making them more visible to us here in Canada.
Based on all of this I would expect to see 10x+ the amount of these crazy stories from the States than I would Canada or elsewhere.
Off the top of my head I've recently heard that a Calgary school is getting rid of honour role because it hurts the self esteem of non-honour role kids, another school in Winnipeg fined a parent because they didn't provide ritz crackers in their kids lunch.
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I actually went to Elementary school down in the States (Washington), but I used to walk home from school as well did all of my friends. When did things change that a parent had to sign a form for kids to be able to walk home on their own? (The Dad in the video didn't want to sign the form because the kid wasn't walking on their own in this instance).
Did things change, or is this just the case with this school?
Off the top of my head I've recently heard that a Calgary school is getting rid of honour role because it hurts the self esteem of non-honour role kids, another school in Winnipeg fined a parent because they didn't provide ritz crackers in their kids lunch.
And yet neither of those people were thrown in jail. My point is that while everyone has their outlandish stories, the US tends to always kick it up one extra notch. "Only in America" is around for a reason....usually for our entertainment benefit.
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