The Staten Island cops did some hella old school ish. Ha!

Ah, yeah. While I would applaud a home owner for doing this, um, the police should not be doing this.

I disagree. What should the cops do with a kid who is vandalizing? I think this is good way to scare some sense into a kid. No violence was used and the kid got what was coming to him. So he froze his buns off a little? Good.

I can agree with using some scare tactics to make kids straighten up and act right, but stripping down to boxers is too much. It’s humiliating in a way that would only make the child angry instead of making him realize how ridiculous his initials actions were. Putting him in the back of the police car and driving him home to his parents would have been a good idea.

Not to mention, who knows what kind of pedophiles might be lurking in that deserted marsh they left him in.

In these pedophile-thriving days, I have a problem with a cop making a kid take off his clothes. That’s my only issue with it. Also, if said kid happened to be injured or killed, the state (=taxpayers) would be liable.

And I do applaud alternative punishments by the way. Really, a cop is not a judge.

Oh, the lawsuit that will result against those cops! They’ve kissed their jobs goodbye and the city is going to pay the settlement. Oh, to be licensed in New York!

Not to mention the element of sexual humiliation involved with disrobing a black man and leaving him wandering. Gross.

the first punishment was waaaay too harsh, but the second…
my parents taught me early in life that you dont fight the police! you dont fight anyone who has more weapons on them than you do! i can understand that she might have been scared, but when you fight the police you can expect to get tasered, shot, beat up, killed! she’s lucky she only got tasered! these police are brutal, and i can pretty much guarantee that if they had shot and killed her, they woulndt even have been charged with a crime!

@ blackmistressdiva-are you crazy? you believe in people taking extralegal avenues to deal with a kid who was throwing an egg? i wouldn’t want anyone, especially the police who are supposed know the laws, taking my kid off into the night, and leaving him naked in a remote area for any reason. i don’t think you realize that ANYTHING COULD HAVE HAPPENED TO HIM and all for a halloween prank.

I don’t agree with that bit, but some of you seem to think that giving the kid a juvenile record would be better….

i would actually prefer that than leaving him in a marsh with NO CLOTHES, NO MONEY, OR A CELL PHONE. what if he had tried to hitch a ride looking like that? what if a predator found him in the marsh or walking in that remote area in the night? he could seriously be dead, kidnapped, god only knows. this is a child. if you are a police officer and you want to find a way of dealing with my kid in a way that will prevent him a getting a juvenile record, you call me and we’ll discuss it. but even then i wouldn’t agree with what they pulled.

Anyone in my family would have cut a switch and AFTER beating his ass, made him clean and repaint the whole damn house. It would never cross my mind to egg someone’s house for any reason and the fact is that if you don’t wrong people, there’d be no need to discuss appropriate punishments. It is common. It ruins the paint job also. There are certain stupid things that kids do that are just stupid but to be expected. This isn’t one of them. He has no respect for other people’s hard-earned property and his right to safety was violated as a result.

- no, last time I checked I wasn’t crazy, just voicing my opinion. Thanks.

Why do we assume that everybody is a predator? And, I do realize what could have happened to him, shit, you’re explaining things to me like I’m stupid. Clearly the one thing you think could have happened to him DID NOT. So all this predator and pedophile paranoia is just that. Paranoia. C’mon people. Maybe you’ve been watching too much Nancy Grace?

After checking my local sex offender registry, the chance is real BUT often overstated. That boy is more likely to be molested or raped in his home by his loved ones than anywhere else. People act like outsiders are the problem but if you look at stats, all that stuff we fear is more likely to happen at home.

I’m not saying that I want cops to start playing judge and jury, but considering that all too often we hear of cops beating kids down or hemmming them up in the juvi system, I’m glad they did something fairly harmless. They played a prank on a prankster. Cops have been doing stuff like that for years, but in our politically correct and overly sensitive society these things get reported now.

I certainly don’t assume that every person is a pedophile, but that is a very real threat and there are people who wish to do harm to others. The cops could have found a better way to do the “scared straight” type thing. I think there are about a million more effective, less risky ways to get their point across. And they don’t get points for not beating the kid up. Like Chris Rock said, “you don’t get points for stuff you ’sposed to do.”

you know what? i do expect kids to do stupid things like throw eggs on halloween night. and if the police caught a kid in the act of throwing an egg at my house, i would hope they’d make them knock on my door, apologize, clean it up and then take them home to their parents.thats how you deal with a child responsibly. i wouldn’t want to have any parts of how these cops handled this sitution.

and i’d rather be considered paranoid and overly sensitive than thoughtless and obtuse. i only brought up two of the things that could’ve happened to a naked kid at night in a remote marsh. this is more than playing a prank, it was putting him in danger. and if cops have been pulling this shit for years its about time they got a wake-up call to stop.

What those cops did to that boy was awesome…but stupid. They’re going to get the department sued because they thought it’d be fun to do some dumb shit.

Sometimes you have to learn harsh lessons in life and sometimes the punishment doesn’t fit the crime. I bet that kid won’t throw eggs again. I feel absolutely no sympathy for him. Names like crazy, thoughtless and obtuse aren’t going to change that.

Names like that won’t change your opinion, but let it be your child that the police decide to play judge and jury on and then we’ll see the ‘black mother’ in you come out.