Banana man vidicated for stunt

Post Reply New Topic

http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/dish/20 ... -principle

I posted a few comments in the responses on this one. Its really an absurd story. What it comes down to - you have administration who's too afraid of parents, calls in police for auxilliary peace keeping, the police - given that rule - do as their trained, you get a predictably disproportionate reaction which then ends up in bold text for the ACLU and now this article - he was autistic!

IMHO there are times when our rights are being violated or times when people with autism are being picked on, and then there are times where I feel like certain political groups are exploiting it to their own ends. Likely this only became an 'autism' issue when people at least two or three social links away from the situation got involved.

Well I think it's unfair to let law enforcement get involved on such a harmless act! He did not did anything wrong or hurt anyone! All he did was just run down the field in a banana costume in front of thousands of people. If I was there I would have like many other teens scream and cheer for banana man. Law enforcement and the school can sometimes be too much of a push over for something that's fun and harmless!

Yeah, I think its idiotic that they needed police to get involved but again I think this kind of idiocy goes with the territory of putting teachers and administrators in the position where they feel like they can't, say, escort him out themselves without fear of being sued by the parents - particularly if he had been the type of person to start a physical roe with the teachers. The whole story reeks of helpless overreaction.

I hardly consider that a suspendable offence. Though at the same time it shouldn't need to be made a "but he has autism!! !" issue, that's just his parents being mardarses. All this is is a class clown having a laugh, I doubt it's autistic impulisiveness. He might not even be that autistic, could even be borderline with a group of friends he planned his banana stunt with, just speculation.

Wow, we could topple the United States by just doing random, harmless things at this rate.

"Thompson's behavior might have been harmless, but the coverage has been another story, because it unnecessarily evoked autism for a stunt that any class clown could have pulled."

Whoever wrote this line is in the possession of a good brain linked to a tough spine. Finally, some insight AND balls in to us as individuals and not some brainless squad of impotents.

The boy who did this was a plonker, but he was a harmless plonker.