more Christmas cheer
 

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) -- A fed-up mother had her 12-year-old son arrested for allegedly rummaging through his great-grandmother's things and playing with his Christmas present early.

The mother called police Sunday after learning her son had disobeyed orders and repeatedly taken a Game Boy from its hiding place at his great-grandmother's house next door and played it.

He was arrested on petty larceny charges, taken to the police station in handcuffs and held until his mother picked him up after church.

"My grandmother went out of her way to lay away a toy and paid on this thing for months," said the boy's mother, Brandi Ervin. "It was only to teach my son a lesson. He's been going through life doing things ... and getting away with it."

Police did not release the boy's name.

The mother said that her son was found in the last year to have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, but that his medicine does not seem to help.

She said he faces an expulsion hearing at his school Wednesday. Rock Hill Police Capt. Mark Bollinger said the boy took a swing at a police officer assigned to the school last month. He has been suspended from school since then.

The boy's case will be presented to Department of Juvenile Justice officials in York County, who will decide what happens to him, Bollinger said. His mother hopes he can attend a program that will finally scare him straight.

"It's not even about the Christmas present," she said. "I only want positive things out of it. ... There's no need for him to act this way. I'd rather call myself than someone else call for him doing something worse than this."

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Merry Christmas, kid.

I can understand the mother wanting to "scare him straight" but come on....

Wow... I can't believe it... She's right!!

You know, hey... I don't think this was all that 'wrong' of her. If this kid has been doing things forever and getting away with it, he needs to be taught a lesson. Christmas or not... Christmas is not an excuse for bad behaviour simply because it's a holiday.

Good for her. It's good that she wants to avoid him doing things like this when he's older. He'll be better off for it. It may have been an unusual punishment... But whatever works! Kudos to mom for parenting.

It may have been a good idea in theory, but I don't think it will really solve anything though. For someone that young to be doing stuff that bad, he's got to be messed up. He'll probably just fester resentment towards police officers and shoot some up when he's 17 or something. They need to do more than a mock arrest on him. He needs help.

True... but maybe not. I've seen kids scared enough, or taught a lesson enough by stuff like this. So it could work, if she keeps consistent about her own at home parenting. But, at least she's trying. I have to give her props for that. Most parents don't even care enough to try.

I find it funny that it took them "months" to pay off a Gameboy Advance. And yes, that's what it was, a GBA. They're like $40 now.

Uh yeah great, cops are off arresting a child because the parent doesn't have the guts to stop the kid themselves. So in turn there's less police for the actual crimes that are happening.

Jesus parents are mental now of days.

nah they've always been that way.
And scare tacktics do not work..thats moronic..my uncle scared the living hell out of me as a childed on roller coasters and I am till this damn day deathly afraid of them.:|

Haha I guess that's true, glad my parents didn't raise me to be an ungrateful brat. I might sound like an ass on here*and oh by golly am I ever an ass on here* but in person I up hold respect for everyone, unless they do something to piss me off then it's free game to do whatever I please to them.

But honestly my cousin is a great example of it. His parents tell him "Go on a time out" Then he runs around not in the room he's supposed to be in and they let him do it. Or let him come back to doing whatever he was doing. Every time we have a family get together he acts like a monkey on crack and crys when they punish him*By talking to him* then they unpunish him. It sickens me to see them just sit there. If they spanked him just once that might fix it. I was spanked as a kid and I never acted like that.

Hear, hear! I used to babysit for a family that used 'time out' and what a waste of time that was. I'd have to physically sit with the kid to make sure he stayed put.

I was spanked, and I turned out alot better than most other kids I know that weren't!

Smack the damn kid upside the head, he does it again? Smack him again. Simple.

ahaha exactly I was spanked and hit and kicked as a kid and look at me hahah I'm actully quite a very respectable polite kid in real life :)
Now my little brothers in this new day and age are got time out and well if that was me they'd have put me in the corner behind the door and kept slaming the door..ahah I sound like bill cosby!:lol:

If she was parenting properly in the first place, would she have had to do this?

Still, this is hilarious.

I was spanked ONCE as a kid. One time. I think I was four... but it scared the bejesus out of me.

I can't tell if this is a case of a truely uncontrollable kid that nothing has worked on him yet, or a parent that's doing nothing and ran out of ideas.

Maybe they should have put the kid on one of those 5 "different" Nanny shows or something. Maybe having the entire nation laugh at them would help.

The... Dog Whisperer...?


*visions of Cartman*

Oh boy...now that's a Christmas to remember :lol: But really, that kid needs a serious spanking. And not just with a bare hand. As a kid I was whacked on the ass multiple times with a wooden spoon. I couldn't stand to sit down for a while afterwards, but it put me in place. For about three years afterwards I had "woodernspoonphobia". Then I tried to brake one out of anger one day and ended up with a smack over the head and tush.

So...yeah. OFF WITH HIS REAR END! :evilgrin: