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05 June 2006

Boner of the Day

X96 radio station in Salt Lake City, Utah has a segment during their morning show called "Boner of the Day." The DJs scour the news for utterly stupid things and then put three on a day. Listeners vote for the dumbest of the three, and on Friday, the four winners from Monday-Thursday are pitted against each other for a "Boner of the Week" prize.

Well, I was reading this story on Fox and realized this is a definite boner candidate.
FRESNO, Calif. — Maribel Cuevas (search) was arrested in April for throwing a two-pound rock at a neighborhood boy who had pelted her with a water balloon. The rock gashed the boy's forehead, and the girl spent five days in Fresno's juvenile hall (search) and a month under house arrest after police said she resisted arrest and scratched an officer's arm.

...Maribel maintains she was playing on the sidewalk with her 6-year-old brother on April 29 when Elijah rode by on his bike with a half-dozen neighborhood boys, who splattered them with water balloons.

The girl threw a rock that police later described as "jagged" and measuring 5.5 inches by 3.75 inches and it hit Elijah on the head, opening a gash that required stitches. While she ran to find Elijah's parents, a neighbor called 911.
My coworker, DJ described it like this:
"That's insane! Every ten-year-old kid throws rocks!

They throw rocks at people!
They throw rocks at cars!
They throw rocks at animals!
They throw rocks at nothing!
Heck, I still throw rocks!"
I couldn't have said it better myself, DJ. Throwing a rock in response to an unsolicited water balloon attack may not have been the best response, but it is definitely not worthy of a felony charge.

I am not one who likes to play the race card alot, but I feel strongly that if it had been a 11-year-old white girl throwing the rock, we wouldn't be having this trial.
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04 June 2006

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that's the end of my post.