Boy Gets Detention for Farting on School Bus

[Hellsbells]

CLEVELAND, OH - 11-year-old Christian Summers thinks playing video games is fun. According to his school bus driver, he also thinks passing gas is fun. She didn't find his flatulence so funny.

"She's like, 'I'm gonna sign you up. I'm gonna sign you up'. I'm like, 'It was an accident," said Summers.

For letting it rip on the ride home, Christian was slapped withn an hour of detention at Thoreau Park Elementary.

"I thought it was pretty dumb," said Summers.

It seems breaking wind is now breaking the rules. The detention slip reads, quote "Thinks it's funny to pass gas while on the van. I've told him it's not funny, nor polite to the others in the van. While others scream, he laughs."

"The normal reaction is to giggle about it and everyone else is going ewww," said Jodi Hochevar, a family friend. "But, I don't think it was definitely not worth being disciplined over."

"We laugh when it happens," said Christian's father.

The district and school officials were asked for an interview, but they passed.

A district spokesman did, however, send an e-mailed response:
"Matters involving student discipline are resolved by building administration in accordance with established district guidelines and policies."

Christian now fears his flatulence. If he's caught passing gas on the bus again, he could get four or five days of detention.

"Depends on how much more gas he has," said his father.

Now he's secretive when letting one slip on his small school bus.

"When I have to pass gas, I have to cover myself because it won't stink up the bus," said Christian

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[biteme]

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news...s-gas-11012010

Either the kid has gastronomical problems his parents need to deal with or he's doing this for attention either way the parents we usually read about are on here are oblivious and useless

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Can I put hubby in detention for doing the old "dutch oven" trick and laughing??

[sheevaa]

He's just gotta be sneaky about it. I hope he gets off the bus and lets a silent stinker rip right by the uppity bus driver. Talk about making a big deal out of nothing.

Farting; the great crime of our time!

[gee]

Over react much.... Are there not bigger issues to worry about then boys being boys farting. Come on this is ridiculous

[totallytoddler]

I agree it is ridiculous. And bus drivers can issue detentions? And someone at the school actually AGREED and ENFORCED it????? I would have laughed my ass off.
Its not like he held her down and sat on her head and farted ON her. Sheesh.

[VXIII]

I didnt know you could control when you have to fart, speaking of farting, had to take a few xrays today, and the tech poked me in the hip pretty hard trying to line me up I guess, so when I had to turn over for the side pose, I farted in the guys face, by accident of course, but I thought it was funny too...

[misssmartypants]

Thank gawd my g girl isnt riding that bus! She takes farting to a whole new level..she would have been expelled for the year. Im serious, its the funniest thing to her.

[Aslan]

Hahahaha there were 2 terrors on my school bus freshman/sophmore year who would actually pat their stomachs in order to produce as much natural emissions as possible on the 45 minute drive home.

That's better than being on an airplane, though. Nothing like a 3 hour trip with a fart being recycled every 2 minutes. At least on a bus you can crack the windows

[TheMorningStar]

This stinks.

I got sent to the principal's office once for farting in detention.

[Tits McGee]

I didnt know you could control when you have to fart, speaking of farting, had to take a few xrays today, and the tech poked me in the hip pretty hard trying to line me up I guess, so when I had to turn over for the side pose, I farted in the guys face, by accident of course, but I thought it was funny too...

Suuuuuuuuure it was!

[guillotinegirl]

Detention seems severe. Can't they just make him hang his ass out the window for the ride home?

[Pene784]

There is a difference between being a little gassy and being a freakin nasty brat and forcefully passing gas to annoy or upset others. I worked with kids for years and there were always some boys who would pass gas on (yes actually put their asses on other people) or would try to time it just right so as to effect as many people as possible. And yes they would get into trouble for being disruptive on purpose.

[Silvahalo]

How ridiculous.

When my boy (7 yo) told me once last year that his teacher was kind of upset when he passed gas while in line before going to the library. They were all supposed to be very quiet of course and that's when it slipped. I told him, you can say excuse me if you want if it makes noise, but it's no big deal everyone has to fart sometime and you can go to the bathroom if you want to do it there if it bothers you that others laugh.

Does the school expect kids to always be quiet, always listen and never laugh over something that is perfectly natural and frankly funny? must be nice to be pristine and fartless.

[malq]

Somebody researched all this and devoted a whole site to it.

How much gas does a normal person pass per day?
On average, a person produces about half a liter of fart gas per day, distributed over an average of about fourteen daily farts.
Whereas it may be difficult for you to determine your daily flatus volume, you can certainly keep track of your daily numerical fart count. You might try this as a science fair project: Keep a journal of everything you eat and a count of your farts. You might make a note of the potency of their odor as well. See if you can discover a relationship between what you eat, how much you fart, and how much they smell.

Is it true that some people never fart?
No, not if they're alive. People even fart shortly after death.


Do men fart more than women?


No, women fart just as much as men. It's just that most men take more pride in it than most women. There is a large variation among individuals in the amount of fart gas produced per day, but the variation does not correlate with gender.
I have read that men fart more often than women. If this is true, then women must be saving it up and expelling more gas per fart than men do.


Is it harmful to hold in farts?
There are differences in opinion on this one. Certainly, people have believed for centuries that retaining flatus is bad for the health. Emperor Claudius even passed a law legalizing farting at banquets out of concern for people's health. There was a widespread belief that a person could be poisoned or catch a disease by retaining farts.
Doctors I have spoken to recently have told me that there is no particular harm in holding in farts. Farts will not poison you; they are a natural component of your intestinal contents. The worst thing that can happen is that you may get a stomach ache from the gas pressure. But one doctor suggested that pathological distention of the bowel could result if a person holds in farts too much. And Dr. P. said that the effort involved in retaining flatus can cause hemorrhoids.

Where do farts go when you hold them in?
How often have you held in a fart, intending to release it at the first appropriate opportunity, only to find that the fart has disappeared when you are ready for it?
I asked several doctors where the fart goes. Does it leak out slowly without the person knowing it? Is it absorbed into the bloodstream? What happens to it?
The doctors agree that the fart is neither released nor absorbed. It simply migrates back upward into the intestine and comes out later.
It is reassuring to know that such farts aren't really lost, just delayed.

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[TACO]

I didnt know you could control when you have to fart, speaking of farting, had to take a few xrays today, and the tech poked me in the hip pretty hard trying to line me up I guess, so when I had to turn over for the side pose, I farted in the guys face, by accident of course, but I thought it was funny too...

[62julietandvoid]

While it seems silly to give him detention for lunch, many(including me) have been given the same punishment for sleeping in class or talking. But I'd rather have sleeping or talking classmates over smelling someone else's turds and their colon. Farting doesn't bother me at all.......if it DON'T STINK. I too giggle at farts. But for fucks sake, if I gotta smell it, there's gonna be a problem.

Back in HS there were many boys who LOVED to fogg people like a crop duster, walking down the isle releasing a foul SBD. One guy revealed that during one of those assaults that he had forgot he had dirareah that day and did that same shit, instant karma, dude shit himself. If only more would suffer the same, lmao