kid arrested for killing off dinosaur in writing assignment

[mikeford]

Far as I know kids in school have only limited first amendment rights, and the whole thing means nothing without details on the disturbing part.

 

[Raduque]

Hah, man, if I were in school these days, I would have gotten arrested for writing a story that I did about two guys who robbed a bank, stole a minivan, led the police on a high-speed shootout, then crashed the van, got shot, and arrested. Nobody died, though. Well, maybe some bystanders from the random bullets flying everywhere.

People now days are too goddamn sensitive about shit, and Zero Tolerance is Zero Intelligence.

 

[master_shake_]

Hah, man, if I were in school these days, I would have gotten arrested for writing a story that I did about two guys who robbed a bank, stole a minivan, led the police on a high-speed shootout, then crashed the van, got shot, and arrested. Nobody died, though. Well, maybe some bystanders from the random bullets flying everywhere.

People now days are too goddamn sensitive about shit, and Zero Tolerance is Zero Intelligence.

you'd be sued by rockstar for infringing on the rights of gta 🙂

 

[angminas]

Hard to judge without the full text of what he wrote, the tape of him in the office, and his behavioral background.

However, 9mm basically means a pistol. Talking about killing a helpless animal (ostensibly by breaking into your neighbor's house) and "taking care of business" with a pistol...that sounds a lot different from childish fantasies of army men fighting T-Rexes with M-16s. It's not clever or funny. It sounds more like something a real murderer in the making would say. I don't know about arrest-worthy, but at the very least, it sounds like it was a really stupid thing to write. If he was confronted with this and flipped out, that's definitely gigantically stupid.

 

[Veliko]

Hah, man, if I were in school these days, I would have gotten arrested for writing a story that I did about two guys who robbed a bank, stole a minivan, led the police on a high-speed shootout, then crashed the van, got shot, and arrested. Nobody died, though. Well, maybe some bystanders from the random bullets flying everywhere.

People now days are too goddamn sensitive about shit, and Zero Tolerance is Zero Intelligence.

Well in days gone by the sight of a black woman sitting down a bus was considered so offensive that they called the police about it.

 

[Exterous]

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.

:thumbsup: This is what you get when people keep suing schools for 'not supervising' or 'preventing' school attacks and parents who think safety can be guaranteed if you make enough rules

 

[NuclearNed]

<copy & paste of my post from the same topic in P&N>
In the mid 80's I wrote a "Blade Runner" inspired story for my high school creative writing class. It was explicitly violent & graphic, but I&#8217;m sure I got a pretty good grade for it. I can&#8217;t even imagine what the zero tolerance Gestapo would do if I wrote the same story in a high school class today.


In other news, I posted in P&N today. What the heck??!???!??

 

[SunnyD]

ZERO TOLERANCE!!!

caps

 

[Puppies04]

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[SP33Demon]

Sounds like a short bus kid. I don't really care what they do with him, just keep him away from my kid. They're usually the kids who have to take classes outside in the trailer.

 

[vi edit]

I remember writing a story in 5th grade for homework where I killed off a kid in class by dissolving him in acid by some swamp monster thing sprayed at him.

Got an A on it and the teacher actually asked me to write a follow up to it for the next assignment. That was going on 30 years ago. I probably would have been flagged for some sort of sociopath in today's society.

 

[CPA]

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.

Your 9th grade teacher was an f'in moron and probably still is.

Oh, and you screwed up his quote. He didn't say "bought a gun to take care of business", he said "bought a gun to take care of the business". By including the word "the" it was obvious that he was referring to killing a dinosaur...a f'in dinosaur!

 

[Sattern]

Why would a teacher get offended by something like this?

You arrest a kid for being creative, isn't that how innovation is born?

I hope the kid sues this lady, he did nothing wrong.

 

[KeithP]

Something tells me we might not be getting the whole story.

Of course we aren't. Anyone can tell by just reading that first story. It just doesn't make sense.

From another story I read about...

In an earlier report on the incident, district officials told WCIV that a student wrote about bringing a gun to school, for which he was taken into custody.

He was detained for disorderly conduct, based on what police describe as his “irate” demeanor during the search. Stone’s mother told WCSC that her son was suspended from school for the rest of the week.

Whatever the truth is, we certainly aren't getting it here. Just another case of drive-by journalism combined with dullards that believe anything if it conforms to their preconceived notions.

-KeithP

 

[Paladin3]

Funny part...the school overacted and called men to "take care of business" who had real guns! All in a gun free zone, to boot!

So, apparently, the schools are teaching our kids by example that real guns are the appropriate response to the idea of guns being use to fictiously hunt prehistoric creatures in a creative writing assignment?!?! Nice.

Everyone sing along: "Guns guns guns guns! If we have'em gooooood! If you have'em baaaaaad!"

 

[Jeff7]

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



i miss the 80s. 🙁

I watched an old Whose Line episode from their days in the UK.
One of the guys on stage did the motions like he was drinking excessively, shooting up with a needle, and finally snorting cocaine until passing out on the floor.


It's not even a full day later and I've already turned into a hopeless meth addict.:\

 

[Jaskalas]

Funny part...the school overacted and called men to "take care of business" who had real guns! All in a gun free zone too boot!

Bringing guns into a gun free zone to deal with imaginary guns.

POW!

I just want to know if they've apprehended the dinosaur yet.

 

[piasabird]

I can remember a short story or essay about a town where they picked people by lottery and stoned them to death. This was a required reading for my wife's English Class. This literary piece originally appeared in the "New Yorker", in 1948. The first time I read this story I thought is was pure liberal trash.

Here is a link describing it:
http://americanliterature.com/author/shirley-jackson/short-story/the-lottery

The story is suppose to relate the human condition in a time when conformity and government regulation have all gone to such an extreme that no one at the time (1948) could understand. However, I think today people of the USA could better relate to the story.

 

[z1ggy]

Little messed up I guess to arrest the kid, but I think it's a good idea. Now a days, everybody has to be aware of the political climate we live in, not just parents. Even though this kid is still young, he should be old enough to be aware that even joking about guns in the school setting can get you in serious trouble.

If he's at all mentally unstable/missing a few screws, it's a good thing that he now has an arrest record in case he does try to buy fire arms when he's older. I mean, who writes a creative story about killing your neighbors pet? Unless he's the next Steven King, it's probably not so great...

 

[Lazarus52980]

Yet another reason to homeschool your children? I assure you my wife would not call the police on my son if he wrote about buying or using a gun...

 

[nehalem256]

I can remember a short story or essay about a town where they picked people by lottery and stoned them to death. This was a required reading for my wife's English Class. This literary piece originally appeared in the "New Yorker", in 1948. The first time I read this story I thought is was pure liberal trash.

Here is a link describing it:
http://americanliterature.com/author/shirley-jackson/short-story/the-lottery

The story is suppose to relate the human condition in a time when conformity and government regulation have all gone to such an extreme that no one at the time (1948) could understand. However, I think today people of the USA could better relate to the story.

You mean a few years after Germany killed millions of Jews?:hmm:

 

[Red Squirrel]

That is pretty sad. The US law system has it's priorities so screwed up. Instead of going after actual violent crimes they make a huge deal out of petty things like this. Is there even a law against writing a story about a gun being used? Then again cops in the states mostly just make the law up as they see fit so it does not really need to be an official law to be arrested. The teacher is also very retarded for calling the cops in first place.

I recall in school, 2000's or so, making animations in one of our art classes having to do with guns and it was not even suggested that it was inappropriate, and this is in Canada. Heck, one animation I did was about a plane being hijacked (post 9/11), there was even blood and stuff. Probably a bit over the top now that I look back but never got in trouble for it. Can't imagine what would happen had I been in the states. Probably would still be in jail right now.

 

[zinfamous]

i'm more offended that the assignment was to "write a facebook status update" about themselves.

what the fuck.

 

[zinfamous]

I watched an old Whose Line episode from their days in the UK.
One of the guys on stage did the motions like he was drinking excessively, shooting up with a needle, and finally snorting cocaine until passing out on the floor.


It's not even a full day later and I've already turned into a hopeless meth addict.:\

I somehow found myself watching a celebrity roast of Dean Martin from 1976 on Youtube last night. ....all 2 hours of it.

Man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK2o30fnlCU

 

[smackababy]

Little messed up I guess to arrest the kid, but I think it's a good idea. Now a days, everybody has to be aware of the political climate we live in, not just parents. Even though this kid is still young, he should be old enough to be aware that even joking about guns in the school setting can get you in serious trouble.

If he's at all mentally unstable/missing a few screws, it's a good thing that he now has an arrest record in case he does try to buy fire arms when he's older. I mean, who writes a creative story about killing your neighbors pet? Unless he's the next Steven King, it's probably not so great...

The best part is, if we just ignore those who write stories about stuff like this and they turn up as the next Adam Lanza, we get to hear all the same people crying about this go "Why didn't anyone do anything to stop him! The warning signs! OMG!"...


This kid wrote a story about buying a guy and killing his neighbors pet. That is inappropriate, even if it is an imaginary pet.

Also, this wasn't some creative writing story, it was a fucking Facebook status.

What's next? A kid makes a joke about shooting his teacher, gets arrested, and we get to hear on ATOT how it is so different than in the old days when you used to be able to make jokes!