I'm Against Police Brutality, BUT if We're Going to Have It Anyway, Why Not Have it for Lloyd Wayne Perkins of 3224 Courtland Drive, Silver Lake, IN

Charges of criminal recklessness with a motor vehicle are being filed against a Silver Lake man after he forced a Warsaw school bus to stop on Ind. 15 with children on board the bus.

According to a Warsaw Police Department report, Lloyd Wayne Perkins, of 3224 Courtland Drive, Silver Lake, allegedly forced the school bus to stop the roadway on Ind. 15, south of the Claypool overpass. WPD Patrolman Greg Oberlin said the man honked his car horn as he drove his vehicle around the bus then pulled in front of the bus. The man slammed on his brakes, forcing the bus to do the same.

"The bus driver forgot (the man's) child," said Oberlin as to Perkins' motive. "He was angry he had to get up in the cold."

As it turns out, the kid "had not been at the designated pickup spot when the bus went by the first time."

They say "the first time" because in this school district, if your child misses the bus, you can call the school transportation department and they will send the bus around again. Is that sweet or what?

Back in ye olde days, when I was a tot (read: ye olde totte), if we missed the Conestoga school wagon, because we were draggin' ass and weren't at the wagon post when it passed, our parents got angry, too -- at us.

There would be yelling. Adjectives indicating our abject worthlessness would be thrown. Allegations regarding the infidelity of the parent not driving us to school would be hurled -- repeatedly. No eye contact would be made. Heads would be thunked. The ride to school would be so fraught with wrathful recriminations and hellish vituperation that even if two members of the Holy Trinity had missed the bus and were riding along, we would have been unable to feel God's love and would have been moved to doubt His existence. And the bus driver wouldn't be mentioned, not once, not for a second; he wouldn't share any of the blame, bear the brunt of any of these blows, or provide in any way a break in the shit storm of abuse that a ride to school after missing the bus would be.

These kids today, they don't know how good they've got it.