ORANGE COUNTYOrange County reviews
, Fla. – A mother in Florida should get a fucking medal and money donated to her by the community she lives in, and then a parade thrown in her honor. See, her 14-year-old was busted stealing his teacher’s cell phone. He was suspended from school for 3 days. Aside from getting caught, another unfortunate variable in this boy’s life is the fact that his mother is a parole and probation officer. You can say she was also pretty embarrassed when her son’s school called to say he stole his teacher’s phone.
In response to her son’s action, she decided a suspension just wasn’t enough. She put him on a busy street corner Wednesday and Thursday morning. He held a sign that read, “I’m a thief. I took my teacher’s phone.” Among the drivers who went through the Orange County intersection, some were taking his classmates to school.
Of course, some think that this punishment is unjustand too harsh. What do you think? Personally, I have said it before, and I will say it again. Ain’t nothing wrong with a good old fashioned shaming. In my opinion, it does work and is a better deterrent to crime over jail, probabtion, community service.
2:06 pm on February 7th, 2008
I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT! My husband needs to see this one. He got mad at me for embarrasing my kids in public for fighting in a department store. I told him if they were going to humiliate me in public by acting that way then I was going to return the favor.
2:16 pm on February 7th, 2008
I have often resorted to humiliation as a deterrent. It works like a charm when your in wal-mart and your kid starts begging for the newest video game and won’t take no for an answer. Make sure someone is close by and just raise your voice several levels, a notch below screaming, say their name loudly and that you have already told them no, no means no and unless they want a whoopin in front of God and everybody they best hush up on the begging. My son, all 6′ of him ducts his head in fear that someone he might know maybe close enough that they heard me and walks away toward some other desired unnecessary item he can’t live without and the process starts all over again.
2:25 pm on February 7th, 2008
Go mom!!!! I personally wouldn’t have thought to do that, but I must say, it would probably be as effective or more effective than what I would have done to my kid for stealing.
I love the idea. In fact, thinking about it, I’m sure it would be more effective than a whipping or grounding me. I know that I could take a whipping, because we weren’t abused, we were deservingly disciplined. I would much rather have taken a whipping and got it over with or to be grounded (hahahaha) than having to let all my peeps see me holding a sign saying I was a thief. Yeah that was a good one. I bet he’ll never steal anything else.
Pouring gas on him and setting him on fire would have been too harsh. Throwing him off a bridge would have been too harsh. Beating him to death, too harsh. But that public shaming for a shameful act – not at all too much.
What now, we can’t pop our kids’ butts without some idiot crying abuse. So, now don’t even hurt their feelings when they do something wrong – I guess some idiot will decide this was abuse, too.
2:26 pm on February 7th, 2008
We’d have a lot less stories on this site if more parents disciplined their children like this woman did or AT ALL.
Of course, I wonder how long it will be before some asshat comes along and starts a huge crusade against this type of punishment. “Public humiliation is child abuse!” UGh.
Hey Morb, can you get this lady’s address for me? I want to send her a “Morbid on the Couch” award.
2:40 pm on February 7th, 2008
roflmao
2:40 pm on February 7th, 2008
This mother rocks.
Sometimes a judge will do this to people who shoplift or drive drunk or whatever, and I think it’s great. Public shaming is a wonderful deterrent. Especially for teenagers – their friends will see them, point and laugh.
They used the stocks in the 1700s – we use the internet or some posterboard in the 2000s. I like it.
2:50 pm on February 7th, 2008
Yay for her!! When my son was 13 he shop lifted a pellet gun from Walmart after school one day. It of course set off the alarms on his way out and he ran. He ditched the stolen gun before he got home with it because he was scared. Later that night one of his accomplices mother heard them discussing it on the phone. She of course told me about it immediately. I took my son and his accomplices and retrieved the pellet gun from where it had been ditched, took them back to Walmart and made them return it and apologize for stealing it in front of everyone in the store and for the next two years none of the three boys involved were allowed to be farther than two feet away from their parent when in the store and were not allowed in at all unaccompanied. They were “branded” as shoplifters for a very long time. My son is now 19, has a good job in the oilfield and does NOT steal.
2:58 pm on February 7th, 2008
I wouldn’t cross Mama if I were this boy, haha!
Being held responsible and picking a punishment you know will get the point across, I’m all for that.
3:02 pm on February 7th, 2008
Punishment by public shame may work on this boy and many other criminals, but it certainly doesn’t work that well on all those anti-social sociopaths, who probably couldn’t care less about others’ opinion about them. Instead isolating criminals from the rest of the society (into prisons or concentration camps, for instance) always prevents them from committing any crimes, at least during the time of isolation. So I prefer isolation to public shame, if only one of them can be chosen. But usually nothing prevents from using both methods of punishment…
4:18 pm on February 7th, 2008
this mom is Awesome! I have never thought of this, (my oldest is 12 and hasnt stole anything, yet!) but if he does this sounds like ample punishment.
this is even better than the mom that sold her son’s car after she found liquor in the back seat!!
8:00 pm on February 7th, 2008
Brilliant, If only more parents were as comited.
9:41 pm on February 7th, 2008
I love this mom! She’s wonderful!
10:05 pm on February 7th, 2008
Kathy! I knew you hadn’t lost the mettle to be our couch photo awarder! I see the Baby Fubore Drama Thread is up to 1200 posts. I’m staying away. It’s a different country from DD.
As for this story — go MOM! Her son is old enough to need something more than a sour look. That’s scary — 12 years old and stealing his teachers’ phone — makes me think that this is not his first problem with how to behave.
10:17 pm on February 7th, 2008
I’m thinking the little shit won’t steal again. Mama done put the “smackdown” on his ass. Go Mama!
4:06 am on February 8th, 2008
Heck no…if more parent’s were like this lady I don’t think there would be as much crime among kid’s these day’s. I am kid’s think that they can do whatever they want then when they get in trouble….it’s the parent’s fault cause they did nothing to try and curb the behavior
6:01 am on February 8th, 2008
I’ve seen this type of punishment before I think it is kewl I think the justice system should be using this method – not just jay Leno lol.
7:07 am on February 8th, 2008
What kid are you talking about?
The boy in this post is 14.
Or just hasn’t gotten caught.
8:14 am on February 8th, 2008
I think its a good thing but I could’nt have done it.
My mother publically humiliated us constantly, just because she was in a perpetual bad mood so I’ve always been loathe to tell my kids off around other people.
But, having said that, good on her. Too many parents put things down to youthful hijinks and clean up after them and make it all go away.
You know the sort of parent I mean. The sort who would say “Well she should’nt have had the phone where he could find it. Thats just putting temptation in his way… he’s just a boy, he’s just a kid”..mmm, till he becomes just a criminal.
11:50 am on February 8th, 2008
LMAO, that is hilarious!
12:11 pm on February 8th, 2008
If more parents actually punished their kids and taught them consequences like this woman maybe we wouldn’t need sites like this. (although it does rock)
kudos to her.
1:04 pm on February 8th, 2008
Who was it among us who told about “Mr. Listen,” the rolled up newspaper that her sister used to symbolically smack her kids? I have been laughing about “Mr. Listen” ever since. It’s such a good name.
I also have been thinking about such punishment for small kids. It seems to me that the kids feel the shame of it and no pain is necessary. Mother animals lightly cuff their babies to show “I’m top here and you are the baby.” From what I’ve seen, human babies resent being reminded that they are the little ones, and yet they accept it. “Mr. Listen” was a great idea, just enough to establish who must be boss.
1:23 pm on February 9th, 2008
Some public humiliation is PERFECT….especially for a teen. They mostly seem way too concerned with what all their friends think of them, I know I was at that age.
Kudos to the P.O. mom!!!
8:58 pm on February 9th, 2008
I love this! More parents should learn to punish children, instead of abuse them. or the ones that do nothing at all.
11:31 pm on February 9th, 2008
Way to go mom!!!!!
11:48 pm on February 9th, 2008
Let’s just hope that the punishment from mom doesn’t lead the kid to do what Joshua Spearman and Nicholas Browning did by killing mom for totally humiliating him in this way. I would sure hate to read that as an update on this page.
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