You know what would be cool? Doing a bid in the joint with your dad after he helps you run a small scale grow operation. What would be cooler than seeing your dad trade oral sex for protection, get beaten by other prisoners and know that he is so low down on the prison food chain he can’t do anything to protect you?
But at least he’s “cool” right? If by cool you mean outrageously immature and so desperate for the approval of young people he’d do something he knew was both wrong and stupid:
WEST VALLEY CITY — A West Valley City man is busted after police discover he’s growing marijuana with his teenage son. Joseph Feichko, 41, told police he grew marijuana with his son so he would be considered a “cool dad.”
Now police say he’s facing several charges, including child endangerment.
West Valley City Police received an anonymous tip that Joseph Feichko was growing the marijuana inside his home, near 6300 West and 3500 South, with his 17-year-old son.
When they came to the house to investigate, Feichko admitted to the officers that he was and then he showed them where.
West Valley City police Lt. Bill Merritt said, “He invited the officers to go with him downstairs to take a look. He had it located in a laundry room, and the officer found exactly what he was looking for.”
What police found was nine marijuana plants, each already about a foot tall, and several supplies ready to eventually harvest them. Merritt said, “He was growing enough that he would be able to cultivate it, harvest it and then sell it.”
They also learned Feichko’s 17-year-old son was currently living at the home and helped set up the operation. “My understanding is that the 17-year-old was involved and helped cultivate and making sure that the lights were set up correctly and that the watering was being done, and so that is unusual,” Merritt said.
In a court document filed in 3rd District Court Thursday, it says Feichko will be charged with a third-degree felony for knowingly and intentionally producing a controlled substance.
What’s “cooler” than that? Certainly not taking an interest in your child and doing anything and everything to protect them. Certainly it isn’t considered “cool” among pot heads for a person with children to grow up and put their kids before their own selfish and childish desires.
Drug use is indicative of a person living in an extended adolescence, which is one of the drawbacks of Americans living in a time of insane plenty for the last 40+ years (that is soon coming to an end however) and more importantly in people like the “father” above it is an example of how much we devalue fatherhood and the awesome responsibility that comes with it. Fathers should be teaching their sons how to be men, how to be successful, honorable, tough and self-reliant. Instead too many fathers try to use their sons to give them a second or third childhood, teaching the sons that being a man means nothing more than acting like a teenager forever.
h/t Trench