Soldier of Belgian heritage waterboards son for wetting the bed. - Polidicks

[quote]There are appropriate ways and Belgian ways to deal with a kid who's wetting the bed. Appropriate: encourage the child to go to the bathroom before getting tucked in and, if that fails, invest in rubber sheets. Belgian: make like they're a reluctant Guantanamo detainee and introduce them to the technique known as waterboarding. Ruben Colon, an active duty soldier at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, is accused of doing the latter. According to court documents, on a night in May 2009 Colon's six-year-old foster son told him he'd just had an accident in their Yelm home. Colon allegedly responded by holding the boy's head under a running bathtub faucet and telling him he should just let him die. The water was running "all over my head and my nose. I couldn't breathe. I was choking and coughing," the boy is quoted as saying. And when asked how long he thought he'd been held under he answered, "I don't know 'cause I couldn't count 'cause I couldn't breathe." Scarily enough, this isn't the first time this year that a JBLM soldier has been accused of waterboarding their kid. In February, Army sergeant Joshua Tabor was accused of holding his daughter's head under water after she failed to recite her ABCs. Colon's foster son has since been reassigned and neither he nor his wife are allowed to take in another child until the state's investigation is complete. He's also been charged with assault. "I'm never speaking Dutch again!" the boy added.[/quote] [url]http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2010/08/army_soldier_ruben_colon_accus.php[/url]

so in order to punish a child for wetting the bed, you punish them by pouring water on them and making them more wetter than they where before and after they wet the bed? Makes sense

He specializes in wetwork?

At least it cleans off any of the piss still on them. All jokes aside that is pretty horrible though.

you really hate Belgians don't you

Looks like this soldier's reputation is all washed up.

This story made my eyes all watery.

That's hilariously harsh punishment. Like slashing someone's tires for cutting you in line at the store or something.

[quote]"I'm never speaking Dutch again!" the boy added.[/quote] 'Atta boy

Belgians don't speak dutch anyway. They speak some retarded accent that only they understand.

This is so bad but I laughed at the title

[QUOTE=Miskav;24488655]Belgians don't speak dutch anyway. They speak some retarded accent that only they understand.[/QUOTE] What. Flemish is exactly like the Dutch those silly Dutchmen speak, except we can pronounce g correctly. Except if you go to some backwater villages, of course. But even then it's only the old seniors.

Flemish is nothing like ABN, and guess what, the southern half of Holland can pronounce the g correctly as well. Wrong usage of words, Even using other languages to substitute dutch words (Aka, not using dutch), using wrong grammar, the list goes on. It's nothing like dutch any more, it may have been at some point in time, but you can hardly understand a Belgian trying to speak Flemish, if you're dutch.

[QUOTE=w 1 z;24477693]so in order to punish a child for wetting the bed, you punish them by pouring water on them and making them more wetter than they where before and after they wet the bed? Makes sense[/QUOTE] Shock therapy.

if you add a toaster, it should be.

[QUOTE=Miskav;24489245]Flemish is nothing like ABN, and guess what, the southern half of Holland can pronounce the g correctly as well. Wrong usage of words, Even using other languages to substitute dutch words (Aka, not using dutch), using wrong grammar, the list goes on. It's nothing like dutch any more, it may have been at some point in time, but you can hardly understand a Belgian trying to speak Flemish, if you're dutch.[/QUOTE] I'm Flemish and Dutch people can understand me perfectly, have you even ever been to Belgium before?

I speak some Flemish (Afrikaans) and I can generally be understood in Belgium

I remember on French campings etc. the Belgians were always outcasts because we couldn`t understand them correctly.

If my name was Colon I would waterboard my son all day

How ironic that he's called colon.

Continuing [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State#Humanitarian_disaster]a fine Belgian tradition[/url], I see.

Surely the trauma of this would make the kid more likely to wet the bed in future

Belgium? I thought only americans did that...

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;24491735]Belgium? I thought only americans did that...[/QUOTE] Yeah, torturing your children for minor offenses is an [i]American[/i] tradition-- like baseball or Monday night football! Those darn Belgians are always trying to muscle in on our culture.

[QUOTE=Miskav;24489245]Flemish is nothing like ABN, and guess what, the southern half of Holland can pronounce the g correctly as well. Wrong usage of words, Even using other languages to substitute dutch words (Aka, not using dutch), using wrong grammar, the list goes on. It's nothing like dutch any more, it may have been at some point in time, but you can hardly understand a Belgian trying to speak Flemish, if you're dutch.[/QUOTE] What are you smoking? It's not like we're speaking Afrikaans. Hell, they teach us ABN in school. (and not as a secondary language.) Flemish and Dutch are simply the same, save for the pronunciation in some areas and some vocabulary that was added in the early 2000's. For example, we never use words like "Flappentap", which I've heard sometimes in Holland. That said, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Dutroux"] a lot of[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Daerden"] Belgians are [/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Royal_Family"] screwed up in their minds[/URL]. I'm hardly surprised by this story.

i bet all 12 people living in belgium are horrified

I literally live 5 minutes away from the belgian border, It's commonly accepted here that conversations with belgians are impossible, unless you truly force them to speak ABN, that being said, I have only met 1 belgian person I've been able to understand in my 22 years of going there.

[QUOTE=Miskav;24493513]I literally live 5 minutes away from the belgian border, It's commonly accepted here that conversations with belgians are impossible, unless you truly force them to speak ABN, that being said, I have only met 1 belgian person I've been able to understand in my 22 years of going there.[/QUOTE] Then you're clearly talking to the wrong people or going to the wrong places. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaWkf3eIAAw[/media] You probably think we all sound like this. :|

at first i thought he used his son as a surfing board

He was washing the piss off his face.