"Wasting the troop's money"

Because you know, that parmesan cheese in a can is like gold! Tell you what, I will buy this kid his own can of cheese, and he won't have to share with anyone, and when all the other cretins in that troop don't have any cheese, he can sit there and say "I wouldn't want to waste charmed's money, she bought this cheese for me".

Boy available for comment: "I like cheese."

I quit the cub scouts because I thought they were facist. Little did I know it got worse in the boy scouts!!!

Which is why all Boy Scouts should be issued cheese graters with their knives.

Wow, sue the entire organization because of one asshat.

I have a better idea for the kid's parents, when my troop started to suck and my movement up the ranks was stiffled by inept leaders, I switched troops, had a better time and got my Eagle award.

The leader should be removed and banned from boy scouts

I was in Cub Scouts for 3-4 years.

After that, I went to one Boy Scout meeting to see if I wanted to join.

When you're 12 and can identify kids six years older than you as losers, that's not something you want to be associated with.

Ahhh.... the power of cheese!

How it really went (totally guessing):

Boy had been screwing around all weekend, pissing of the troop leader. He screws around with the cheese and dumps it all out on the plate. The leader loses it. The boy acts like a twerp, says he's not coming out of his tent. His parents intervene, but of course, they're the "my boy never does anything wrong" type. So they get the boot. Then they sue because, like, they think they have a right to be in a private organization that kicked them out.

I mean they must be real jerks to even want to go back to a troop where they are not wanted. Or jerks to sue over something so stupid.

I occasionally deal with jerk kids who have jerk parents. Runs in the family.

/my posts suck when I'm tired

Is this a real story? I mean...really. There is NOTHING else happening out there?

Hey, you got your cheese in my spaghetti.

If I remember correctly Boy scout troops where funded by the members, so therefor he was wasting his own money if you get down to it.


/drunken ramble

I am an eagle scout. I spent a lot of time around scouts and some of the people who run the orginization. There are asshats on both sides. Some of the adult leaders are good people who understand that kids are going to act unruly once in a while and allow margin for mistakes and let it go. Some of the leaders are on a power trip and try to run the troop like the military, which makes most of us cringe. I'm guessing the kid was a bit rambunctious and the leader was a first class jerk.

Most troops don't pay for food anyway, there is usually a budget and a menu that the boys have to plan for the outing. Our troop handled it where one of the boy's parents would take him shopping and bring the reciepts to the next meeting, where the kids divided up the cost of the trip.

This doesn't pass the "smell test." I'm convinced that there is more to this story.

I mean, first of all, one little tantrum is a really stupid thing to kick a kid out of a scout troop over.

Secondly, a kid getting kicked out of a scout troop where he was obviously miserable is a stupid thing to sue the BSA over. They seriously want the boy re-instated in this farked-up troop!? Why?

This all sounds to me like a lazy journalist who wrote down the ranting of one angry father and ran with it before doing any follow-up research.

After the cheese incident

Comedy gold!

Oh, and I am not currently active in scouting, since I'm 28 and don't have any kids. I'll be happy to be involved if I have a son but I kind of view scout leaders without kids of their own with a wary eye.

Sounds like vid is making the most sense here. Good points you.

Biggest piece of shiat organization I ever belonged to as a kid. The uniforms cost too much & the adults running the weekend outings were idiot rednecks.

Send him to boot camp, again guessing that he was some unruly twirp. Friggen kids these days, wasting cheese.
And yet again, another asshat parent trying to con something out of money by suing. If they are so worried about money that spilt cheese makes them angry, how in the hell is suing them going to make the situation any better?
Can also guess that this kid is very spoiled, if that is so hopes he gets his ass kicked, if not kick it anyways......he wastes cheese.
Just think, mommy and daddy will buy him a brand new Cadillac to show off to his friends from the emotional truama!!

Isn't it just a babysitting service for lazy parents?

I'll wager this sort of kerfuffle never occured in the Hitler Youth!

assuming he hadn't begun to eat it, there is a simple solution: take his portion of cheesey spaghetti, mix it back into the pot, redistribute, parmesan for everyone.

hooray for the science of diluting a concentrate!

otherwise, remove/salvage part of the cheese blob, and give the kid dish duty. why force him to eat it, or scare him into the tent? you need him for chores.

no matter what happens, give him a CRAZY nickname, like "extra cheese", or "robbie mc slobbie"...

/eagle, who never got such fancy food in the wilderness.

vid

They seriously want the boy re-instated in this farked-up troop!? Why?

I ask the same question to the people suing to get their job back even though they state that the company they worked for was "run by idiots".

Is this the kid?

This happened in NJ... I bet Gov McGreevey's affair has upset the balance of morality for young men all over the state.

If Joe Piscopo were in charge - this kind of BS would never take place - let alone get reported...

Aulus,

i had my first drink when we stole the leader's vodka.

have experienced similar satisfaction with such an answer...

ah, the downward spiral. hm, is the beer store still open?

"They circled the wagons, and hopefully the wagons are going to come apart soon," McDermott said.

what kind of backwoods analogy is that? and even if it wasn't, is he suggesting his family is horde of indians on a massacring rampage?

I was kicked out of the girl scouts .. but that was because i ate out all the brownies

Fact: No matter how farked up it is, the BSA is a private org. Their game, their rules.

This wont last long in court.


/hopefully

New list of things you can get kicked out of Scouts for dropping:

1) Cheese
2) Soap
3) Trou
4) ...

Updates pending.

It wouldn't have been such a big deal if the FAT kid hadn't cried about not getting as much as this kid...

Oh wait - they're all FAT kids nowadays...

I was in boy scouts...
I got to second class, but I couldn't swim far enough to meet the requirements for first class. I'm a.. umm.. what's the opposite of a marine mammal? Oh right.. cow.

2) Soap

I just got a hilarious mental image of an 11-year-old boy being raped by a bear.

I was a boy scout once, and what talldarknstinky said is mostly true.
You have people from every spectrum in a troop, and they will clash.

In my troop, the scoutmasters kids were always the uptight,
already grown up type kids.
Basicly, they didn't like having fun,
everything was serious to them.
Me, I was there to have fun.
When I had to do the work, I got it done.

I only got up to First Class before I quit.
The thing was mostly with how everything was done in the troop,
and how the people were.

I know this isn't the same everywhere,
but this is how it happened when I was there.

I think this song provides the true account of events.

One time at scout camp, a kid named Sweeny poured dish soup into the whole troop's spaghetti. We still ate it, and then hiked 5 miles without crying. In the rain. uphill both ways. through eel infested waters.

/todays scouts are sissy whimps.

We heated up shovels in a fire and branded the surrounding trees. We were almost sent home, once, for placing a large can of tomato paste in the fire... it wasnt open, so it exploded. I always got a kick out of showing the youngsters how to make a hangman's knot.

Be lucky you didn't get invited over a scoutmasters house to drink beer and then blindfolded to get a bj from a prostitute only to find out later it was the scoutmaster doing it while the prostitute watched.

blech

/read about it
//would let the scoutmaster die a slow painful death if I was one of those kids

Similar story, I got 'voted' out of my scout group, as Im a dwarf and (according to the leader), the others in the group 'didnt know how to relate' to me..

I seriously thought "spilling the cheese" was a euphemism. God, we need to MAKE it one, like right now. That said, upon reading the article, there's GOT to be more going on here than that article mentions. It smells of rat.

Thanks, Doc, for saving me from having to look that up!

Out....of thcouth?!

/big gay al

Has to be more to this story...

The article actually sounds dead on. I think the classic Fark cynicism is kicking in too easy here.

I quit the Boy Scouts, despite being >< that close to Eagle, because of asshat leaders who would unload on undeserving guys over something like this, trying to "make an example" out of them.

Correction. I was thrown out for decking the Super Asshat of the BSA (busted his nose, not that he had much of one), after he started yelling at a 13 year old first year for being a 'faggot-lover'. I probably would have cock-punched the leader in the article, too, had I been there. It just sounds too damn familiar.

I hope this has nothing to do with the String Cheese Incident...

or any other unfortunately cheese-named jam bands...

Are they sure the articles right? Maybe he cut the cheese on the spaghetti.
That would justify kicking the kid out.

hewhohasnoname Right on.

The BSA is a weird outlet for fundie christian homosexuals. Alot of these jebus freaks are closet sex freaks!

When I was a Boy Scout we had to whittle our spaghetti out of wood!