Hello Daily Kos community!
I've been a member who has had many ideas, but for the usual (procrastination) reasons, tend to just enjoy reading your thoughts. It's less scary in a sense, as a defense to fellow lurkers.
Until now.
Because now I've got a paddle in this boat. Or however that goes.
My son is the kid that shot the video that is the subject of news stories in the the Northern Virginia-DC area involving a kid that ran down the sidelines of a football game at half-time in banana suit.
http://www.youtube.com/...
Harmless prank, right? Well, the kid got put in a cop car then suspended for 10 days.
At the time, I laughed it off, because the kid is a friend of my sons. He's not a hell-raiser, he's a good kid. As is my son.
I laughed, until things got really shitty.
My son and some of his friends went to school with t-shirts on that said "Free Banana Man". Long story short, my son was made to take off the shirt by the school administration. And when he asked why he had to take it off, he was given detention.
Now, I'm not as hippy as some here, and certainly not as hippy as my wife, but I know a need to raise up when I see one. And you know what? This is some bullshit.
Luckily, the local ACLU seems to agree with me. More to come, but this is a situation that while not dire, is something that needs to be watched.
As silly as it may sound, sometimes, it does start with a kid in a banana suit.
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