Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Smart lawyer

Bullied Teen Who Sued School District Wins $250,000

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- A Kansas teenager was awarded $250,000 Thursday in his federal lawsuit claiming that he was so badly bullied by classmates that he quit school.

Dylan Theno, now 18, claimed Tonganoxie school district officials knew about the taunting and did nothing to stop it.

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Theno testified that a rumor started in seventh grade by another student that he was gay continued into high school, where classmates called him derogatory names for homosexual men.

The school district's attorney, J. Stephen Pigg, of Topeka, said in closing arguments that name-calling and crude comments are something that boys -- and men -- do all the time.

"Guys think things are funny that ladies don't think are funny," Pigg said. "In the seventh grade that is enhanced. ... It just happens. It is just part of the joking and kidding of seventh-grade boys."


Oh, I get it.
So if somebody does something bad and its common to do it, then its not bad.
Wow, that makes sense.
Why fight injustice at all! Lets just lye back and enjoy the ride.
What a smart lawyer! (And his name was Pigg, sorry, but that was just a little......)
:)

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