I have to wonder . . .

. . . if there was a way the mother could have handled this without wasting tax dollars.

The mother called police Sunday after learning her son had disobeyed orders and repeatedly taken a Game Boy from its hiding place at his great-grandmother's house next door and played it. He was arrested on petty larceny charges, taken to the police station in handcuffs and held until his mother picked him up after church.

Maybe by donating the Game Boy to a needy family with kids and cancelling this little snot's Christmas.