Junior did not do his chores or keep up with his school work.  Instead lazy Junior chose to play video games.    Military Dad, who never had any criminal engagement, steps in and has Junior carry landscape stone as PT and disciplinary lesson.   Police arrest Dad for child cruelty based on Pizza guy who called police…..  RIDICULOUS !

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. – Police arrested a Douglasville father on child cruelty charges after the man punished his 16-year-old son by making him carry a 23-pound landscape stone for several miles.

Charlie Mayes, a 40-year-old military veteran with no criminal record, told police he used military-style punishment because his son watched too many videos and didn’t do his chores and school work. Douglasville Police charged Mayes with first-degree child cruelty.

“This was done multiple times over a three-day period, sometimes as early as 3 o’clock in the morning,” Police Sgt. Todd Garner told 11Alive on Tuesday.  Garner said the boy, who is only 4’2″ tall, was also punished in-between the 3-mile hikes.

“In between that time, he was at home having to move rocks and stuff from one side of the back yard to the other and then being taken right back out to the same location and dropped off and made to walk back again,” Sgt. Garner added.

The boy’s trek would begin on Kings Highway and end at the family’s home in the Fairways subdivision  (read more)