Weird Laws: Student Athletes & Mischief

So we all know cigarettes are bad for us. We all know cocaine is an addictive drug and we all know there will never be an end to the weird laws that attack us every day. However, the thing about the weird laws that I don’t get, especially when the laws are supposed to be there to help us, is how with the same situation you can have different results in different places. 

Here’s where I am going with this. I just moved from Washington, DC to South Carolina. The interesting thing about this is that both places are prime locations for weird laws. DC is the crown jewel weird laws. Then in South Carolina, well, let’s just say there is not shortage of weird laws in the state. So given where I have been and where I am, I was pleasantly surprised when I learned how two different stories played out in two very different fashions. 

Both stories involve student athletes. Both stories involve varying degrees of student “mischievous” and both involve diverging actions on the part of school administrators. Both also involve weird laws, or at least the application of logical laws in a very weird fashion. 

The first set of students decided it would be neat to steal a deer decoy – you know the kind of decoy hunters use to lure the deer out into the open so they will have an easier shot. So, the students, student athletes actually, first steal the decoy then decide to park the decoy on an isolated road. Well what happened wasn’t too pretty. A car containing two other students happened upon the deer and swerved to miss it. The teens in the car were severely injured with one even losing a leg. The two athletes who orchestrated the little “prank” plead no contest to a variety of criminal charges. The judge, apparently a local football fan, sentenced them to a period of time in a juvenile facility, to be served after they completed the school’s football season. Fortunately the school board had an opportunity to impose their own punishment on the juvenile delinquents. 

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