Comments on: To the Moon, Alice

By: Melvin

Melvin — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:04:30 +0000

Markum, this woman must be somehow related to the Tennessee football student manager who, upon being mooned by a playful Peyton Manning, sued the university for $400,000 for something like “being traumatized”, “emotional distress”, etc. (and that event was in the locker rooms, not in a public hallway).

By: markm

markm — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:57:39 +0000

The punishment might be excessive; suing over it is definitely excessive.

OTOH, am I the only one who sees a contradiction here:

‘veteran teacher Carla Webster’

‘Palm Harbor principal Herman “Doc” Allen called the episode “disgusting” and said Taylor had been argumentative and defiant before mooning Webster, whom he described as “traumatized.” ‘

I don’t think my high school class ever mooned a teacher, but anyone tough enough to survive the little things they did every day would hardly have been “traumatized” by a mooning.

By: jb

jb — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:38:50 +0000

The punishment seems to fit. He’s gotten into college, he will graduate high school at all…

When I was in high school, about the same time that the seniors started slacking off schoolwork, they also tuned down the illegal activities. If you’re close enough to graduation where you don’t have to work so hard, you’re close enough where punishments will really suck.

Todd: I think the odoriferousness you smell is this guy’s posterior.

By: Griffin3

Griffin3 — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:33:54 +0000

I’m predicting “It’s not about the money” will show up before seven calendar days; any takers?

By: Justinian Lane

Justinian Lane — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:46:15 +0000

Both the school district and the kid/parents completely overreacted and this is an ego suit.

Deoxy, got any links to show mooning gets you on the sex offender list? I’d like to make sure I’m not in one of those states before I go out drinking.

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:38:08 +0000

I esp. like the part about this lad briefly displaying his rectum (and perhaps testicles). Being 18, could he not be charged as a sex offender, given the craftiness of prosecutors these days?

There is a certain odiforousness about this story that doesn’t seem quite right. Will he perhaps be asked to re-enact the gesture, should the case make it to trial?

By: Deoxy

Deoxy — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:09:49 +0000

He can be lucky he’s not in jail and in the sex offenders’ registry – in some states, mooners gets tossed in the same pile as pedophiles.

By: MikeM

MikeM — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:04:44 +0000

While the forced transfer seems a tad harsh to me, if the stated policies of the school system were followed, too bad kid. Grow up and suck it up.

By: KDP

KDP — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:17:14 +0000

A few days in detention would have sufficed in my day.

I suppose the boy is lucky he didn’t run up against some Scientologist. He could have been killed with just a thought!

By: Joe Bingham

Joe Bingham — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:10:44 +0000

I would think the graduation would be an important reason not to let the kid come back. It would be fairly easy for him to get onstage with merely a shift between him another, far-more-public, moment of poor judgement.

Full disclosure: I live in Tampa, far too close to this guy for my taste.