Purdue University Instructor Cleared of Cell Phone Theft

By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

Purdue University, prestigious right? You’d expect someone going to there to be proud and want to learn, and also to show some respect to his professors. Well, nowadays too many people have a ’sense of entitlement’ about things, and this qualifies.

A university student, whose name was not released, was in Les Meade’s class when his cell phone started ringing. Meade told him to turn it off but the student did not comply, leading Meade to take the student’s phone, telling him he could pick it up the next day from the dean’s office.

The student called the police after class and accused Meade of stealing. Meade, an adjunct instructor who also serves as a superior court judge, was then forced to return the phone. Source: TG Daily

We Say: The case was dismissed. Frankly, IMHO, the student was being a big baby. I’m sure this instructor, who was a superior court judge mind you, told the students what the rules were prior to the first class. He asked him to turn it off, he wouldn’t, live with the consequences.

Of course, what was funny was that as the special prosecutor was reading the ruling, in a courtroom plastered with signs demanding cell phones be turned off … his phone rang.