Decisionmakers

Sometimes children blur vision. As a result, father's might not see the line they are about to cross.

So, maybe a judge really should cut Jude Sherlock some slack during sentencing. Father Sherlock claims that when he was arrested for trying to unload €10,000 of marijuana, he was just trying to raise the deposit for an apartment so he could regain custody of his daughter. This time he really was doing it for a good reason, unlike the 14 previous times he was nicked for drug offenses, plus the drunk and disorderly citations.

Another man confused by sentencing is Demetri Korzh, whose 8-year-old daughter Anastasiya, was disqualified for wearing an earpiece. An earpiece that happened to allow her father to help her out during a tennis tournament. He says that while he had taught her to play tennis, he hadn't taught her to keep score so well and so the other girls were cheating her. Tournament officials disqualified her, even though he had already taken it off and was adamant that his being able to talk with her was actually a disadvantage (something about offputting her coordination).

And like Korzh, David Farnham was only thinking of his son, 2-year-old Justin, when he kept the windows closed in the parked car where his son was (unfortunately) "crying and sweating" outside the theater where he was taking in the midnight show of "The Dark Knight." He was probably Ferberizing a child who really should have been sleep — who would take a todder to watch a midnight movie instead of letting them sleep — and Farnham wanted to make sure his son was stolen.

It was just another case of love, sort of like the interest a 69-year-old father took in his son's girlfriend. Realizing she wouldn't be true to his son, the father started dating her. Unfortunately, the evidence daddy dearest presented didn't convince his son of how he should dump his girlfriend. Instead, it resulted in son kidnapping dad and leading police on a 60-mile, high speed chase.

Maybe when young Andrew calms down — now that he's in police custody — he'll realize that his father, like the others above, was really (maybe? sorta? possibly? hopefully?) blinded by paternal affection when he stepped over the lines of normal decorum and won't simply write the old man off as someone deliberately looking the other way.