Don't even think of making your kid walk home a mile to teach a lesson.

[oldbadger]

Does it say highway?

Would country lane be better? To me, they are all highways........ rough tracks are byways....... horses-only tracks are bridle-paths and pedestrian routes are foot-paths. Pick a venue... (UK terminology)

This child was 8 years old. In Britain we are not allowed to leave an 8 year old in any building on their own, for instance.

A 36-year-old Kauai man, who was sentenced to probation for having his son walk a mile after being punished at an afterschool program, said he just wanted his 8-year-old son to be accountable for his actions.

 

[oldbadger]

Does it say highway?

Yep a highway.....without footpaths.
The kid was kept in school late as a punishment.
It was 'Fall'
Ergo, it was later than 'dusk'

So this pr-t dropped his 8 year old sone off on a highway without pedestrian protection, in the dark or late dusk and drove away. A driver stopped to pick up the crying child and took him back to the school. The police were called.

If the child had been seen, disregarded, and then killed in RTA, abducted, or attacked, the world would be demanding to know how this could have happened.

In the light of more info, (something the papers withhold to get more clout from their article) the judge probably got it right. The judge would also have had access (after conviction) to any other records about the father.

Here is the road, well, part of it.

When the incident happened last October, De Mond told the news station, he drove back to the Kuhio Highway, which has ample room on the shoulder but no official sidewalk, he couldn’t find his son: Someone had spotted the boy crying, picked him up and called the police. The child was brought back to the school, according to the Honolulu Star Advertiser.

 

[dust1n]

Yea, I'd go with oldbadger on this one. It would be different if we were talking about a fifteen-year-old. But and eight-year-old on a highway, 50 mph speed limit? I mean... I guess there's worse out there.

 

[kashmir]

The sad part is tons and tons of these types of parents exist.
some how or another we need to figure out a way to make some sort of test to even allow people to have kids.
Something needs to be done, too many kids are abuse, neglected, tortured, raped, and the worst thing is, once they are taken from the home, they can end up in even worse situations.
There was a woman who was a foster parent, she got huge moneys to take in kids, they were starved, forced to shop lift, locked in cages, and this went on for years before she was caught.
WTF

 

[oldbadger]

Yea, I'd go with oldbadger on this one. It would be different if we were talking about a fifteen-year-old. But and eight-year-old on a highway, 50 mph speed limit? I mean... I guess there's worse out there.

Hi...

Apart from the incident, I get really cross about our press 'adjusting' stories to make them more arousing, exciting, etc etc... and the way that papers write stories can adjust the public's reactions and opinions.
Television programmes can be tampered with in the same way..... We are just as bad in Britistan, but before some US telly programmes we get a warning flashed on-screen, mentioning that life-situation stuff has been hyped-type to increase interest. We need warnings like that on the front pages of papers and mags!

 

[bobhikes]

In my city you had to live over 1 mile away from school to be bused. We lived 9/10's of a mile from school. Both my parents worked I had to walk to school everyday from kindergarten to Senior year of high school. In middle school and high school it was 2 miles before busing. I lived 1 miles and 8/10's from the middle school. It was challenging in the bad weather.

My younger sister shared the same fate. We would walk with a group of friends. Not once in 13 years did me or my sister have someone try to kidnap us. I guess the world was a better place back then.

 

[Revoltingest]

In my city you had to live over 1 mile away from school to be bused. We lived 9/10's of a mile from school. Both my parents worked I had to walk to school everyday from kindergarten to Senior year of high school. In middle school and high school it was 2 miles before busing. I lived 1 miles and 8/10's from the middle school. It was challenging in the bad weather.

My younger sister shared the same fate. We would walk with a group of friends. Not once in 13 years did me or my sister have someone try to kidnap us. I guess the world was a better place back then.

Are people more evil now? Nah.
Perception's have changed.

 

[Poeticus]

At least in Hawaii.

If I was in Hawaii, I'd be walking all day, every day.
I would be burning calories left and right, enjoying
the scenery and the culture and history. Heck, I'd be
listening to ethnic Hawaiian music while jogging or
speed walking from beach to beach.​

Come at me, bro.​

 

[Vinayaka]

If I was in Hawaii, I'd be walking all day, every day.
I would be burning calories left and right, enjoying
the scenery and the culture and history. Heck, I'd be
listening to ethnic Hawaiian music while jogging or
speed walking from beach to beach.​

Come at me, bro.​

But you wouldn't be walking along some of those roads. They're narrow, cars go fast, and there are no sidewalks. Fortunately, Kauai has a ton of really nice hiking trails, and one really nice 10-15 km stretch between beach and main road.

 

[Poeticus]

But you wouldn't be walking along some of those roads. They're narrow, cars go fast, and there are no sidewalks.

I shall side-way/lateral shuffle those roads, then.

 

[dust1n]

Hi...

Apart from the incident, I get really cross about our press 'adjusting' stories to make them more arousing, exciting, etc etc... and the way that papers write stories can adjust the public's reactions and opinions.
Television programmes can be tampered with in the same way..... We are just as bad in Britistan, but before some US telly programmes we get a warning flashed on-screen, mentioning that life-situation stuff has been hyped-type to increase interest. We need warnings like that on the front pages of papers and mags!

Yea, British and American media are really bad.

Have you The Act of Killing yet? It's definitely worth seeing, if you'd like to see how similar things have been working Indonesia.

 

[Sleeppy]

A mile isn't very long at all. That's maybe a 30 min walk, or a 10 minute jog.