Christian Adamek, from Huntsville, Alabama, hanged himself
on October 2, a week after he was arrested for running naked across the
Sparkman High football field during a game."
A video of Adamek
streaking during a game against a rival team was posted on YouTube hours after
the event and students took to Twitter to call him a 'legend'."
His mother, Angela, thanked her son's friends and said they
could learn from his life, AL.com reported."
'Remember to smile, don't be afraid to do something goofy
and remember the consequences of those actions, ask for help when you need it,
ask for help if you think your friends need it if you don't know what to do, be
quirky, be happy, be smart,' she said."
MailOnline via Drudge Tweet
39 comments:
"A popular 15-year-old student has committed suicide after he reportedly faced expulsion and could have been placed on the sex offenders' register"
School district bullies pranker to death.
Disequilibrium?
Disproportionality?
Myopic?
It's a tragedy because he was popular.
Gee, I sure wish I were popular.
If I were popular, then I wouldn't be sad. I'd be happy.
Gee, I sure wish I were popular, same as Christian Adamek was popular.
If we were all popular, then we'd all be happy. And we'd never be sad.
It's good to be popular.
Gee, I sure wish I were popular.
EMD said...
School district bullies pranker to death.
It proves government is incapable of exercising judgement. Why? Maybe because not one government official will suffer because of this. Not the fools who made non-sex offenses subject to sex offender registries, not the fools who upcharged to pad their career stats.
I'm glad I'm not raising kids in this frightened new world. I see so many cases of the cure for societal problems being much worse and often the exact same thing as the problem being addressed.
intolerance in the name of tolerance.
racism used to cure racism
bullying to stop bullying
This stuff is everywhere now. It's a pandemic of self-righteous stupidity. left in the wake of destroyed traditional values that were doing very well in improving lives and relationships until they were abandoned or taken too far.
I see hate and cruelty increasing over the last 10 years after a very long period of us making great progress, and strangely it's usually in the name of doing good.
It proves government is incapable of exercising judgement. Why?
Exactly. A good parent would have never meted out that absurd judgement. A governmental super ego lacks compassion and good judgement. They're trying to improve on that but the question whether they should be doing that at all--especially in this case.
There is probably some official somewhere feeling terrible about this.
Streaking is not a sex offense. Sex registries need to be limited to those who truly are a danger to the community.
I'm glad I'm not raising kids in this frightened new world
And the sad and very weird thing about this is that most of the perpetrators of this madness are from the "flower child" generation. The ones who wanted to rebel against their stuffy parents in the 60's and 70's. The ones who don't trust anyone over 30. Who want to be free to live unrestricted and in harmony. The dawning of the Age of Aquarius.
Turns out that they are 10X worse than what they thought their parents are and have become control freak intolerant racist bullying Nazis.
Ironic
I honestly don't think I could get anyone I know to say yes, this kid should be a registered sex offender. Who the hell goes there, and why do they have that power? With so many unemployed out there, why does this person have a job, especially with responsibilities?
He Was Naked and Fifteen Years of Age: Child P#rnography Laws Kick In. Government Officials Will Need to Scrutinize Any Photos as Evidence.
Behind-Closed-Doors Scrutiny.
I'd rather be falsely accused of murder than a sex offence. What a strange culture we have built that celebrates sexuality in virtually all things and has young women gyrating nearly naked on millions TVs in our homes in front of our kids, but will ruin a person's life for being naked in public? No matter what your standards are about sexuality, that makes no sense whatsoever. Maybe the stage we go through just before reaching idiocracy is national schizophrenia.
DBQ is right on the money.
Like everything else the Lefties foisted on us in the 60s, the Sexual revolution was a lie.
In many ways, things are more repressed than ever.
Why can't they be like we were, perfect in every way. What's the matter with kids today?
...under strict scrutiny.
Betamax
When I was in high school in the 70's there were streakers running through the cafeteria or the football games nearly every week during that fad. I never realized how that effected my fellow boomers' psyches. Apparently, it really fucked some people up, and they're in charge now.
If I were popular
The gals and guys would love to see me streak
My popularity would reach a peak
And I'd beat up the meek
If I were popular
All together now with gusto!.....
Streaking is disorderly conduct, nothing more. We had to bail out an idiot who was on our bus trip to a Mets-Phillies opener back in the 70's, when streaking was epidemic. $250 bail on a simple DO charge. Sex offender is puritanical, PC, horseshit! That said, rarely is suicide caused by one incident. I have prayed for the parents, our worst nightmare.
They now speculate that Ariel Castro's hanging was a case of auto erotic asphyxiation. You've got to give the guy credit. He was committed to depravity and really hung in there......Remember the Sheppard case in Montana and beware of martyr narratives.
William said...
They now speculate that Ariel Castro's hanging was a case of auto erotic asphyxiation. You've got to give the guy credit. He was committed to depravity and really hung in there...
I assumed that he got all choked up on guilt and couldn't stand hanging around any longer.
That said, rarely is suicide caused by one incident.
True, but this appears to be the catalyst to put thought into action.
That Mathew Sheppard case was really huge when it happened, and I don't remember anything other than the homophobia narrative that now turns out was entirely wrong. With all our information technology now, we have less truth than ever. For every fact in the world there is about a dozen lies created now. I'm not even sure the following is true, but I'm going with it anyway:
IT'S FRIDAY! Woooohooooo!
It's a Dolores Umbridge sort of world out there.
I remember we had one tough and unforgiving motherfucker for our HS vice principal. Bastard looked just like Telly Savalas in Beau Geste, he handled all the disciplinary issues. Back then they allowed corporal punishment and he was no shrinking violet with "the paddle."
A couple of years after he became principle at another nearby school a student went into his office, pulled a gun from under a gym towel, and shot himself in front of Telly. I guess that was his game-changer, it was as if he had been visited by the ghost of Xmas future, and he was afterward and forever a kind and caring friend to all of his students.
Oddly enough just yesterday afternoon I was driving past the high school with a vanload of my kids (spanning 3-12 years of age) when one of the high schoolers on the sidewalk partially mooned his friend who was driving a car or two ahead of us. My oldest just remarked, "Wow, that guy's butt is really really white," and that was that. I guess I should have called 911.
Wow, that guy's butt is really really white,
Did you use the teaching moment to explain the origin of the term "to moon"?
Sad.
Committing suicide like that -so young. The sadness suicide brings is hard to take. The heartbreak is hard to describe.
Pollo has me at a disadvantage on this post. I'm working, i cant be hanging around here.
Maybe before streaking the streaker should call ahead, like the IRA used to do?
As for Ariel, i smell coverup.
Sparkman High Principal Michael Campbell told WHNT a day before the suicide attempt that the teen could face major repercussions because of his actions.
Campbell added that that the incident was not just a prank and needed to be treated seriously.
Campbell declined to comment on Adamek's death but the Madison County school district issued a statement saying it had 'received word that a Sparkman High School student has passed away'.
Only a monster or someone facing criminal investigation himself would "decline to comment."
"Sparkman High Principal Michael Campbell told WHNT a day before the suicide attempt that the teen could face major repercussions because of his actions."
I hope the Principal has been told the same thing by someone, maybe someone of significant authority over him who could scare him good and proper.
Although I think the approach of the authorities here was stupid, the student really has ultimate responsibility for his own death. It was a sad and foolish choice, but kids are not the best at making choices. It's mostly just a very sad tragedy, but hopefully someone gets the message of it, which is keep your head, don't take everything to a nuclear option. Neither the student or the adults seemed to get that here. The stupid adults chose to brandish their weapon, and the kid believed them, maybe with good reason.
When a 15 year has the hammer drop on him like this and has the fear of criminal repercussions thrust upon him for an act that didn't hurt or offend anyone of note, then I think the only pressure valve he opened was the one he took. You can't drop sexual offenders lists on 15 year old and not expect an outcome like this. He saw his whole life threatened with a sexual offenders scarlet letter hanging over his head for life like the sword of Damocles. He figured his life was over so he took the next logical step. Nevermind the fact that this is coming from the mind of a 15 year old, but the utter rigidity of the people in authority is what is striking here and that is what needs to be addressed. Follow this story and watch the ass covering that comes next from everyone in the decision chain.
"As for Ariel, i smell coverup."
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Make the perpetration more than what it is to conflate its 'seriousness'. Idiots.
I think everyone understands that pretty clearly now. Probably even the idiots.
But they'll forget it again. Effectively addressing the utter rigidity of people in authority will require the next anthropological leap in human development, IMO.
I would alter the "prank gone bad" tag. It wasn't the prank that went bad, but the overreaction of the Politburo.
The sex offender registry is not very useful if they put people on it for things like this.
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