Flagrant fragrance gets gassy student bounced

Maybe the 13-year-old student at Martin County's Spectrum Junior/Senior High thought he was being funny by repeatedly and purposely passing gas during computer class.

His teacher, D.C. Carden, didn't bust a gut over the boy's breaking wind - not to mention his continuous turning off classroom computers - so he gave the boy a referral and sent him packing to the school resource officer for a little talk.

SRO Warren Pettaway asked the (perhaps) obvious question: Did the boy deliberately cut the cheese (and the computer lines)?  "He subsequently informed me it was factual, and I informed him as a result of his behavior he was being charged with Disruption of a School Function," Pettaway wrote in his report.

That's right. The boy was arrested for farting. He was released to his mom. No word on what he did in the car on the way home.

(Thanks to the Stuart News for the story tip.)

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Comments

[rick]

Is this how they solve problems and waste taxpayers cash?SRO Warren Pettaway should be fired if this is how he handles situations like this... wow,what a waste of time and resources.
That aside there are many funny comments on here to keep it on the ligh side:)Fartin' Martin yours was very good!

[kris]

Lets go back to the days where teachers could smack the $hit out of a kid for being such a disruption.

I think this is less an issue of a kid being punished for farting, and more that a student was properly punished for disrupting class. I guess in these days you need a sexy title to tempt possible readers.

Good thing he wasn't in science class working with a bunson burner. Ka-BOOM!

Farts are meant to be shared. That is why they float. He was just sharing with his fellow classmates.

[Tino]

I came for the story, but stayed for the graphic.

[ValuesVoter]

I'm wondering if this kid had already cycled through the "good ole detention" route.

I used to teach middle school, and I really loved it, but some kids just don't know when to quit.

He should be charged with disruption of a school function. Cutting computer lines put the lab out of commission for that class and all the ret of the classes that day, and perhaps the next.

Unless this was the FIRST TIME this little "angel" had ever been sent to the SRO for disruption, vandalism, bullying, or any other offense, he just needs to suck it up.

My philosophy: Nip it in the bud. Then you can separate the ones who CAN'T control their behavior from the ones who WON'T.

[Alejandra]

Some kids (and parents) are not affected by multiple referrals and office visits. They see it as no big deal, and blame the big bad administrators for "not understanding the uniqueness" of little Johnny. Maybe this was the "last straw" to try to scare the kid into behaving or to motivate the parents into making him behave.

We're missing a lot of info besides the headline there. Was this repeated behavior over time, why was he in that school to begin with? Was it the final act of a desperate teacher?

(Disclaimer: I come from a family of teachers. My views are admittedly pro-teacher.)

[Fartin' Martin]

That kid learned a valuable economics lesson -- the high cost of gas!

[Tony]

3:36 PM I agree that it makes teaching more difficult when little morons like this are running around the classroom, but to arrest a kid for this is crazy.
I can opt out of my kid talking to a recruiter, but not the NAZI SROs? I see a real problem with this. Was he read his rights before talking with the sro? Did he waive his right to have his parent with him while talking with the sro? I tell my kids DO NOT TALK TO THE SRO. They are not your friend, they are the laziest sheriff's deputies. People stand up against this type of treatment. If they have a legal defense fund for this kid, count me in. Defend the constitution, even if an idiot goes free becuase of it.

Aren't the adults behaving like a bunch of old farts? Why would the kid be arrested for this behavior? Whatever happened to good old detention after school? This is a terrible over-reaction.

[Alejandra]

He may have a bowel problem, like Crohn's or IBS, and the parent will probably use something like that as an excuse for the real problem there, POOR BEHAVIOR. He wasn't arrested for farting, he was arrested for shutting off the school computers repeatedly.

If your gas can shut off computers from 50 paces, I am darn impressed! I have cleared a room with my IBS, but can't manage to do that!

That school is an "alternative" school, which means kids that end up there can't seem to behave in other places. He probably wasn't an angel to begin with.

I see women farding while driving their cars every morning on highways. They should get tickets for careless driving and endangering lives.

Ha ha ha ha funny funny funny to some of you guys. The SRO and the teacher will get trounced for this. No teaching can go on with kids like this in class so think about that next time you want to wail about how bad the schools are.

[paulo]

Arrest the parents for allowing their little idiot to behave badly.

He needs the gas chamber.

This highlights some of the ridiculous behavior we have to put up with in the schools. I'm sure mom will sue, of course, since he was just "being a kid"--while other kids who are actually trying to learn have to put up with this garbage daily.

[Jimmy Mack]

The mark of a true man! At least he admitted it, and took the heat for it... C'mon guys, how many times have you farted and blamed the lady you were with for it?

[mumbles]

He was released to his mom and his farter.

[Tony]

You have got to be joking on this. What a Nazi SRO he is. When did all behavoir issues befome crimes? This is one of the most far reaching miscarriges of justice I have read about in years.

[mike]

Next time kid go stealth. SBDs

[Chuck]

Death Penalty next time, please.