Out of Bounds:
This is a great article about the Mepham High sodomy hazing case in Long Island. Some quotes and observations from the article…
Observation: Mineral Ice was used on the foreign objects before insertion. If anyone has gotten that stuff anywhere near a sensitive area or any kind of mucous membrane knows how painful that can be.
Quote: Victims were laughed at in the halls and called “faggot” and “broomstick boy.”
Quote: “Most of the shit they did was pranks, like shaving cream,”
Quote:“The kid that did it, I feel so bad for him,” the boy says. “I don’t even care what they did.”
What about the boys who were raped? I ask.
“Two of the kids are underclassmen, little kids,” he says. “They really couldn’t do anything about it. But one kid who got it in the shitter, he’s just like a fag.”
He stops, waiting for my reaction.
“Yeah,” he says. “I heard the kid liked it.”
Quote: A day later, the three alleged victims are still having broomsticks thrown at them from cars in the parking lot.
Quote: Superintendent Caramore tries to explain that hazing simply doesn’t happen at Mepham—that football was canceled not because of what the boys allegedly did but because their teammates never reported it. That hasn’t satisfied parents who complain about the lost scholarships, the deflated homecoming celebration, and the fund-raisers for other sports, all of which depend on football and are now ruined, they’re saying, because of a couple of messed-up kids. (God forbid anyone should actually be responsible for their actions.)
Quote: In July, when Reichstein’s son, an incoming freshman, showed up for football practice, a junior on the team—the lineman—started calling him and some of the other boys “pussy,” “faggot,” and “cocksucker.” Reichstein went to McElroy. He says the coach said, “Okay, I’ll handle it.” From that moment on, the junior stopped calling Reichstein’s son “faggot” and started calling him “tattletale boy.”
Now some words about the attacker…
Observation: The kid’s father died the day after hearing his son was possibly going to face criminal charges. I can sympathize with that but it does not change what he’s done.
Quote: And then the lineman—whom classmates call a bully, who would shove kids he’d never even met into lockers as they walked by—stands suddenly, stepping out from his place in the front, and walks back eight rows to give a bear hug to his little brother
Quote:One day at practice, the lineman approached him while he was drinking from a water fountain. “Who do you think you are?” said the lineman, according to Reichstein’s son. “Are you on crack? Do you know who I am?”
The freshman, trying to show a little backbone, replied: “This is America. Go to the back of the line.”
The lineman was furious. “Don’t even think about sleeping at camp,” he said.
Quote: “I knew all those kids,” says another boy, a JV player. “I went to summer school with them.” The lineman, he says, “was always starting fights. You could just see he had so much anger in him. He’d just beat up on people—he’d be walking by and boom! Into the locker! I think he’s a dirtbag. Decent football player, though.”
All this over a game that children play. What gets me is that these parents who were expecting football scholarships for their kids are pissed at the school for canceling the season. The only people they should be pissed off at are the 3 little rat bastards who sodomized these poor kids. I guess common sense is in short supply in Bellmore.
