A group of five Huntsville, Ala., students, 4 seniors and one junior student, forced Jim Shields, 53, to stand naked in the school. Shields, homeless and a Vietnam Veteran, was forced to disrobe and walk naked through school as part of a prank, according to a report.
Local school officials have called the act “unacceptable behavior,” (a vast understatement if there ever was one), and suspended the group from school for a week. As part of the suspension the Seniors will also be barred from attending awards day events and “banned from a planned Senior Class picnic and suspended from attending baccalaureate and graduation ceremonies.”
And note the Junior student apparently will only receive the weeks suspension. I guess an older age does have its “benefits!”
There is no indication these 5 idiots were aware Shields was a veteran, not that it matters, this behaviour is unacceptable in any context. The sad part is the school penalties handed out appear to be that only ones available to local officials. Ken Edmonson, who served in World War II and Vietnam, reportedly contacted Huntsville Police and was told their hands are tied unless the victim takes out a warrant.
My suggestion, someone should give Shields a few bucks, an expensive steak dinner in Honor of his service and an air conditioned ride to the Huntsville cop shop to sware out a complaint.
And based on one quote from Shields (“My pants were already off by the time I got out of the back of the truck,”) the 5 apparently picked him up off the street and drove him to the High School. That sounds like a basis for a kidnapping charge to me.
In a not so surprising twist, this incident is being used by those with acute Bush Derangement Syndrome to blame the GOP and by extension the Bush Administration.
It’s no surprise that in a country, where torture is condoned by our GOP leaders, that a bunch of high-school kids thought it would be fun to lure a 53-year-old mentally ill Vietnam veteran onto school grounds with money and food, and then force the man to strip naked while they all stood around pointing and laughing.
It’s no surprise that in a country, where the lawlessness of our GOP leadership goes unpunished, the kids responsible received little more than a slap on the wrist.
Of course to believe this line of partisan tripe you also must believe high school students have never pulled similar stunts, and worse, pre-Bush.
And a firm belief in secret Karl Rovian brain implants for GOP/Bush supporters would help also.
I graduated from HHS and I saw what happened. I personally know everyone involved and what your post says is inaccurate and insulting. The homeless man was not forced to do anything. He was not pointed and laughed at. When I saw the homeless man I couldn’t help but feel terrible for him because he looked like he was near death and he was scared to death. It is people like you who take stories and sensationalize them to the point where a simple mistake on the part of some students is blown way out of proportion. The actual story was looked into from every possible angle and there is no basis for criminal charges and they didn’t even break any school rules. So if you don’t know what your talking about shut up please it will make the world a better place. By the way I don’t even know where to start with your political tie-ins to this story they are outrageous but I would expect it from the left to take advantage of situations like this to help their broken political cause.
So, you “saw the homeless man.” Did you assist him in any way? After all he was sans clothes and on school property.
An yet you claim these 4 hoodlums are as innocent as babes in the woods. In fact you went so far as to say they not only didn’t do anything criminal but stayed within school rules. I must say you attended a very strange school if there are no rules concerning naked non-students to be within it’s walls after hours.
However Justin you need to speak with superintendent of Huntsville city schools Ann Roy Moore, she has a cluebat to club you over the head with:
Well I guess you are partialy correct, it was “looked into from every possible angle.” But unlike the bullshit conclusion you came up with, the school administrators not only determined they are guilty as hell but punsihed them as well. And they got off damn lightly. By “helping” him enter the building they could have been charged with breaking and entering.
And BTW you hsve a lot of nerve spewing your obvious bullshit and telling me to “shut up please.”
Here this comes from the heart, STFU!!
Wow im disgusted with this. How dare you stoop low enough to blame a high school prank on the Bush Administration. That is one of the most preposterous accusation against the president I have seen. Where is the backing behind any connection between the Bush Administration and an Alabama high school senior prank? What is modern political analysis coming to?
Who the hell are you talking to asshole. Can you not see I quoted some leftist/Democrat/MoonBat who did the very thing your accusing me of?
Did you not pass reading comprehension 101 in grade school?
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Hey Jeff, guess the author Marc shot a very large hole in your idiotic assertion didn’t he?
Dumbass! In your knee-jerk attempt to defend Bush you failed the first test. Reading!
i also attended huntsville high school. almost everything you have posted on here is wrong. you dont even go to the same school as us so how are you going to sit there and tell me or justin we are wrong! thats just stupid!
First of all “girl from HHS” you have no idea what school I attended so you start your little rant by making a fool of yourself.
Secondly I’m sorry both you and “Justin” have claimed nothing I have written or quoted is correct yet you offer no proof of same.
I offered quotes, with links to the original, you two offer nothing but unsubstanciated BS. Until you can provide links to story that counter what the school administrators have said and done it is you that are entirely wrong.
Not to mention stupid for trying to debate something without giving proof of what you claim.
ok… you are an idiot! i dont care what school you go to dumbass! i never said anything about your school i said I ALSO ATTEND HHS! so… and i dont need proof! thats the problem with people like you… you have to have proof! well who gives a fuck! ask anyone who went to HHS and they will tell you all you info is second hand shit! so there you go!
I go to Huntsville High School, and your blaming it on the Bush administration is absolutely ridiculous. I would like to think that you were too “ill informed” about the incident when you come to a conclusion such as that. What you need to do i grow up and realize there is a good chance some of your family and friends would be dead if bush didn’t act right away after 9/11. Also i see your reply to “girl from HHS, You need to pull you head out of your ass and realize what is going on in the real world.
Two years later “girl from HHS” and you still ofter zero proof what I’ve posted is not valid.
You don’t need proof you say. You do if you wade in here and call me names and claim what’s written is untrue.
Show me nitwit. Of STFU. And BTW jakehole, you need to stay in the schol until your reading comprehension gets above the 3ed grade level. It wasn’t me blaming the Bush Admin, it was some lunatic I inked to.
NOW, get your dumb ass back into class, you’re mentally over-matched.