kid arrested for killing off dinosaur in writing assignment

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http://www.nbc12.com/story/26319685...ter-writing-threatening-message-on-assignment

A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended after writing about killing a dinosaur using a gun.

Alex Stone said he and his classmates were told in class to write a few sentences about themselves, and a "status" as if it was a Facebook page.

Stone said in his "status" he wrote a fictional story that involved the words "gun" and "take care of business."

"I killed my neighbor's pet dinosaur, and, then, in the next status I said I bought the gun to take care of the business," Stone said.

Stone says his statements were taken completely out of context.

"I could understand if they made him re-write it because he did have "gun" in it. But a pet dinosaur?" said Alex's mother Karen Gray."I mean first of all, we don't have dinosaurs anymore. Second of all, he's not even old enough to buy a gun."

Investigators say the teacher contacted school officials after seeing the message containing the words "gun" and "take care of business," and police were then notified on Tuesday.

Summerville police officials say Stone's bookbag and locker were searched on Tuesday, and a gun was not found.

According to Gray, Stone was suspended for the rest of the week. Gray says she is furious that the school did not contact her before her son was arrested.

She says her son followed directions and completed an assignment.

"If the school would have called me and told me about the paper and asked me to come down and discussed everything and, at least, get his point-of-view on the way he meant it. I never heard from the school, never. They never called me," said Gray.

Stone and his mother say they understand the sensitive nature of what he wrote, but they say it was a rash reaction to an innocent situation.

"I regret it because they put it on my record, but I don't see the harm in it," Stone said."I think there might have been a better way of putting it, but I think me writing like that, it shouldn't matter unless I put it out towards a person."

According to police, when Stone was asked by school officials about the comment written on the assignment, he said it was a joke.

Summerville police officials say Stone was disruptive and was told that he was being detained for disturbing schools.

Stone was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. District officials say the student has been suspended.
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i miss the 80s. :(
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

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Sounds like a first amendment violation. I would definitely be court over that.
 
AznAnarchy99

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I got called up to the principal's office once for putting my head on a picture of Arnold in Predator holding an M16 in my Photoshop Class assignment.

I just gave her the most "wtf really :rolleyes: " look.
 
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smackababy

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Wow, this story is bullshit. And, not the part about what he wrote.

"I killed my neighbor's pet dinosaur, and, then, in the next status I said I bought the gun to take care of the business," Stone said.

He first status wasn't what got him in trouble... He wrong something to the effect of "I bought a gun to take care of business." How is that not inappropriate for school?

And for those that think this is new, when I was in 9th grade my math teacher sent a kid to the principle because he said "9 millimeters" and that is all she heard. It happened that he wasn't talking about a gun, but rather the answer to some problem (which was 9mm). This was in 2001. Columbine changed schools and how they are to deal with students and guns. It didn't help that a few months prior to that, some jerkoff brought a gun to school and accidentally shot his friend in the face in the bathroom.
 
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Exophase

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The sentence seems like it can be misread as him saying that he shot his neighbor's pet named "Dinosaur." I can see why the police might be alerted over that, but the kid shouldn't be punished once the misunderstanding is cleared up.
 
JEDIYoda

JEDIYoda

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smackababy said:
He first status wasn't what got him in trouble... He wrong something to the effect of "I bought a gun to take care of business." How is that not inappropriate for school?
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you hide your head in the sand much....
 
Brovane

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AznAnarchy99 said:
I got called up to the principal's office once for putting my head on a picture of Arnold in Predator holding an M16 in my Photoshop Class assignment.

I just gave her the most "wtf really :rolleyes: " look.
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lxskllr

lxskllr

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smackababy said:
If, in school, I was instructed to write a status and it was "I bought a gun to take care of business," what exactly do you want to happen?
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I expect to be graded on effort, and artistic merit. Same as every other work of fiction I was specifically assigned.
 
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I miss when people weren't such fucking pussies. I miss when people weren't so fucking dumb. smackababy, did you eat paint chips as a youngster?
 
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tcsenter

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Maybe 35 years ago, kid at my school once brought in a quarter-stick of dynamite (real dynamite) and blew a toilet apart in the school bathroom. He was in 8th grade. Parents paid for the damage, plead guilty to some offense that would be expunged @ 18, a couple years probation with no jail time, was back in school a month later. Dynamite, go boom, IN SCHOOL and didn't receive much more than this kid is looking at.
 
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cubby1223

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smackababy said:
If, in school, I was instructed to write a status and it was "I bought a gun to take care of business," what exactly do you want to happen?
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If I were the principal I would realize that either (1) you are smart enough not to announce in a school assignment your underlying desires to kill, or (2) my school is an utter failure for producing dumb students who announce such truths in assignments.

Bottom line, unless this was one of the short-bus students, I wouldn't take it seriously.

...but I suppose the principal may have some nosey parents at pta meetings with sticks up their, it's much easier to appease them and suffer the heat elsewhere.
 
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darkswordsman17

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Something tells me we might not be getting the whole story:
Summerville police officials say Stone was disruptive and was told that he was being detained for disturbing schools.

Stone was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.
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Now, was he arrested over writing that or was it because he might've been acting like a 16 year old shithead (like a lot of 16 year olds are wont to do) at some point?

Chances are the school officials couldn't offer any leniency as their hands are tied by code of conduct from school/district board voted guidelines. I'm sure as hell not going to risk my job over something like this.

I do think arresting him probably was overboard even if he was being an ass about it (and if they had him arrested solely over what he wrote that's pretty shitty, hell I could understand calling police as a precaution and so they could help check it out, but an arrest is pretty ridiculous) but again a lot of schools are taking a very hard stance over stuff and handing it off because they don't want to be held liable for it.

Not enough actual information to really make an adequate assessment.
 
twinrider1

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I agree with darkswordsman17. It sounds like he was arrested for how he behaved in the office. Even if it was silly for them to suspend him, he had no cause to act up. It's not how you take care of business.

I'm guessing the teacher was required to report the gun reference. I would hope the administration had the authority to then review the info and make a judgement. It doesn't say whether the suspension was due to the gun reference or due to his behavior afterwards.

Would need more to make a judgement. Not feeling any outrage at this point.
 
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master_shake_

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somewhere a cop is getting home from work and is telling his wife that he made a difference today.

he arrested a boy for causing a disturbance because the school called them and told them that he is writing about shooting dinosaurs.

his wife gets up and berates him for being so stupid and calling him retarded and what not.

the cop then smacks her and tells her she better shut up or she'll get the pistol to the face like last time.

that's a short story i just wrote. i call it 'murica
 
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arkcom

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smackababy said:
Wow, this story is bullshit. And, not the part about what he wrote.

"I killed my neighbor's pet dinosaur, and, then, in the next status I said I bought the gun to take care of the business," Stone said.

He first status wasn't what got him in trouble... He wrong something to the effect of "I bought a gun to take care of business." How is that not inappropriate for school?
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I think you are misreading the story. There were no actual statuses posted anywhere. His sentence was written "as if" it were a facebook status.
 
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