Well Watermonkey, we are definatly on the same page on this one! I agree wholeheartedly with you!

Dog feces, while not especially pleasant, is certainly not fatal. And the thing about the grandmother threatening to bury him in the back yard, she might of just said that to get the cops to come get the brat. I know of several instances where parents have had children that were totally out of control that they could do nothing with, and when they called family services for help, they were told that they wouldn't help them. Maybe she was just trying to get their attention. And it worked!

You know, we didn't have garbage like this going on back in the good old days when hickory switches were still in common use!