# Employer arrested for SPANKING employees!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 10, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048 "2004-11-10T18:06:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![booka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@booka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/booka)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/21 "2004-11-10T20:44:55Z")
"At the company headquarters in Minneapolis, sales manager Tom Novetzke described Levengood as a “very Christian person,” adding that “We’ve never had a complaint.” Being a Christian should have flipped everyone’s early warning system. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/22 "2004-11-10T20:46:17Z")
Well, there is that whole _turn the other cheek_ thing. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/23 "2004-11-10T21:07:29Z")
Does this dude live in the real world? Doesn’t he realize that _progressive_ employers give time-outs for naughty employees. ---
**Author:** ![pencilpusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d6d6ee/32.png) [@pencilpusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pencilpusher)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/24 "2004-11-10T21:10:26Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > Does this dude live in the real world? Doesn’t he realize that _progressive_ employers give time-outs for naughty employees. But what if they PREFER the spanking? I’d rather have one then have to stand in the corner. Unless there’s a rack there, then that’s a different story all together… ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/25 "2004-11-10T21:35:35Z")
> [@](#): > > “I give Gene permission to bust my behind any way he sees fit.” Gene, Gene, the ice-shaving and ass-busting machine… ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/26 "2004-11-10T21:52:10Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > He’ll be sued senseless soon enough Wonder if Tennessee has some type of cap on civil damages for a case like this. Is Levengood a slime? Yeah Are employees who get spanked (or their attorneys) entitled to a windfall settlement? NIMO What’s a fair amount of damages to ask for? ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/27 "2004-11-10T21:55:03Z")
So I guess the nipple-clamps are out too… ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/28 "2004-11-10T21:59:13Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Gene, Gene, the ice-shaving and ass-busting machine… Nice slippin’ in of the Gong Show reference. . . ---
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/29 "2004-11-10T22:06:01Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Well, there is that whole _turn the other cheek_ thing. _snickers_ ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/30 "2004-11-10T23:47:42Z")
> [@JohnBckWLD](#): > > Wonder if Tennessee has some type of cap on civil damages for a case like this. > > Is Levengood a slime? Yeah > > Are employees who get spanked (or their attorneys) entitled to a windfall settlement? NIMO > > What’s a fair amount of damages to ask for? Million each. Oughtta make other randy bosses think twice before they start swatting bottoms. (Disclaimer: I am not against spanking in a consensual setting, especially if nudity and bondage are also involved. But this wasn’t really consensual.) ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/31 "2004-11-10T23:57:30Z")
> [@pencilpusher](#): > > Hell where’s this place at again? SIGN ME UP!! 😃 > > I’ll be messin up EVERY day!! 😛 If the boss is James Spader, sure. If not, no way. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/32 "2004-11-11T00:43:28Z")
I wonder if the guy will be tried by that judge that was beating off under his robes. We’re a nation of perverts, I tells ya! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/33 "2004-11-11T01:11:32Z")
This is actually refreshing. Most sexually aggressive perverts would scheme to sleep with their employees, or at least insist on a good BJ. This guy only wants to swat them on the ass. I think he should get a break. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/34 "2004-11-11T01:45:58Z")
Looks like Gene is [pretty tore up](http://www.volunteertv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2549627) about it all: > [@](#): > > A Red Bank business owner charged with spanking two women employees has been hospitalized in intensive care and police records released today refer to a possible suicide attempt. […] > > A Cleveland police report shows an officer responded to a call from Levengood’s residence about a "possible, suicidal, missing person."The officer’s Monday report shows he was told that Levengood left his residence Sunday and left a message that the family believes was a suicide note. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/35 "2004-11-11T02:52:48Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > I wonder if the guy will be tried by that judge that was beating off under his robes. We’re a nation of perverts, I tells ya! > > 😛 And for the defense, he could get that lawyer in Chicago who was making attractive female applicants let him tie them up and take pictures of them when they applied for work at his firm. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/36 "2004-11-11T03:18:17Z")
Reminds me of the dumbasses involved in an even stranger case…A lawyer (apparently related to Gene) did this to a client to improve her behavior in court so people wouldn’t think she was lying: [http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1024078985535](http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1024078985535) I think his client was just as wacky as he was. Where do all the nuts come from? Are they falling from the trees or something? ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/37 "2004-11-11T03:28:07Z")
Where is Zapp Brannigan when you need him: **Zapp:** “I see! Does she by any chance give the crew members spankings?” **Fry:** “No, she just makes do work and stuff.” **Zapp:** “Good, good. But should she ever institute some sort of bare bottom spanking policy: Let me go in your place. I won’t have my comrades harmed” ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/38 "2004-11-11T04:00:31Z")
At a regional meeting I attended recently, spanking was specifically mentioned as an inappropriate disciplinary action. They were joking, but perhaps we should all have taken it to heart. ---
**Author:** ![archmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@archmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/archmichael)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/39 "2004-11-11T16:12:34Z")
It sound like the premise of a really bad reality show…or really good erotica. > [@Evil Captor](#): > > And for the defense, he could get that lawyer in Chicago who was making attractive female applicants let him tie them up and take pictures of them when they applied for work at his firm. Might as well have Mr. “I am going to inject semen in your mouth” DDS on the jury ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/40 "2004-11-11T16:39:41Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > And for the defense, he could get that lawyer in Chicago who was making attractive female applicants let him tie them up and take pictures of them when they applied for work at his firm. Damn, I _missed_ that story! Link, perchance? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048.md?page=3)