Ukiah Teen Branded By Friends Hospitalized

[Liberal_in_LA]

Ukiah Teen Branded By Friends Hospitalized

http://www.fox40.com/pages/landing_local_headlines/?Ukiah-Teen-Branded-By-Friends-Hospitaliz=1&blockID=245707&feedID=190

The Associated Press

March 21, 2009

UKIAH - A Ukiah teen has been hospitalized after he was injured while being branded by a group of his friends.

Mendocino County Sheriff's Capt. Kurt Smallcomb says the 17-year-old boy - a senior at Ukiah High School - had asked his friends to burn a metal star into his chest.

The students gathered in the parking lot of a shopping center Wednesday during their lunch break, heated the brand with a butane torch and pressed it into the teen's body.

Authorities say the brand went too deep, and the boy's friends recognized they had made a mistake and took him to a hospital.

Smallcomb says the brand was intended to express pride in being from Northern California.

He says the students who branded the boy may face prosecution.:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

[rcrush]

1. I dont feel sorry for anyone in this story.

Wheres the forehead slap?

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. Me neither. And what is the pride in being from northern California?

I'll add the forehead slap

[rcrush]

4. Maybe he saw his dad go to Bohemian Grove once

and tried to copy him?

[AlCzervik]

3. i don't understand why this is newsworthy.

[skygazer]

5. Friends don't let friends be branded

I saw that on a bumper sticker once.

[Orrex]

6. Now that's what I call brand loyalty

[Xipe Totec]

7. I was very Moooved by this story

what a buch of bovines.... :eyes:

[LeftyMom]

8. This story DOES NOT increase my pride in being from Northern California.

:rofl: