kid arrested for doing something cool
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ptschram said:I have a scrip for "Mixed Amphetamine Salts".
Word?
For brian4d read the second part of this post here is a link.
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2012/05/huh-possession-of-weapons-of-mass.html
i used to regularly take apart or alter fireworks. just kids being curious imo. completely agree on the over sensalization of everything nowadays. i dont want my kid to even watch the news its such a joke.
My kid is really sad about this. He wrote a letter to the Mythbusters to try and help this poor girl. I think he's going to write the President next.
In the meantime, we should all sign the petition to have the charges against her dropped.
http://www.change.org/petitions/state-attorney-jerry-hill-drop-charges-against-kiera-wilmot
In the meantime, we should all sign the petition to have the charges against her dropped.
http://www.change.org/petitions/state-attorney-jerry-hill-drop-charges-against-kiera-wilmot
Look, of course the felony charges are absurd.knewsom said:
However, ponder this:
- the girl did not mix some random chemicals available at her science class, but stuff [you know, I know, and everyone else knows, very likely including her] that goes boom.
- she did it in the school environment, with a bunch of other kids around, who could get hurt - and the school would have been liable.
- she could have done exactly the same shit in her backyard or front lawn, but she did it in school.
So, she's by no means the innocent child striving for science excellence. The school was perfectly right for kicking her out. An excuse that somebody told her to do it and she did unknowingly means the school was perfectly right for kicking her out for the reason of sheer stupidity.
She's a child with a curious mind who did a harmless experiment, and she did it at a place where she knew it was unlikely to do anyone or any thing any harm. Where's the best place to do this? In the middle of a big expanse of blacktop.
Was it stupid? Sure. Who among us hasn't done stupid things when we were teenagers?
Should she have done it at school? Probably not, but I don't expect a teenager to understand the subtleties of liability law.
Did the authorities over-react? Absolutely. The felony charges (as you have said) are entirely ridiculous.
Should she have been expelled? Debatable. Certainly disciplined. Suspension, etc... dunno about expulsion. But she absolutely should not be facing criminal charges for it.
Was it stupid? Sure. Who among us hasn't done stupid things when we were teenagers?
Should she have done it at school? Probably not, but I don't expect a teenager to understand the subtleties of liability law.
Did the authorities over-react? Absolutely. The felony charges (as you have said) are entirely ridiculous.
Should she have been expelled? Debatable. Certainly disciplined. Suspension, etc... dunno about expulsion. But she absolutely should not be facing criminal charges for it.
Come on. In my better days, I'd think nothing of setting a dumpster on fire - but I wouldn't light up a trash can at school.knewsom said:
Harmless experiment my ass...
When I was 14 and in 9th grade I did worse than this. A friend who liked to build explosive devices gave me a CO2 cartridge filled with black powder, capped with a waterproof fuse. He said don't do anything stupid with it. So I took it to school and threw it in a toilet. Well, it shattered the toilet, embedded porcelain in the stall walls and in the 1950's-bomb-shelter-in-the-basement era school building floor. I got a 10 day vacation from school and had to pay for the toilet. They charged me with reckless endangerment, 3rd degree arson and destruction of private property. The destruction of private property was the only one that stuck. I got probation for 6 months and 20 hours of community service. I'd make national news today and be fucked for life.
more stupidity..... 7 year olds suspended for pretending their pencils were guns !!!
http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/-two-boys-suspended-for-pointing-pencils-like-guns-165811733.html
http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/-two-boys-suspended-for-pointing-pencils-like-guns-165811733.html
When I was in 6th or 7th grade someone threw a cherry bomb or M80 in a toilet in the boys locker room... it was AWESOME... one of those old school 50's locker rooms with the red clay tiles and a commode in the showers with no walls
captwyo said:
When I was in 9th grade I was on a field trip and when we got back to school there was not a single car in the parking lot, except for a couple white vans, an FBI helicopter, and the county bomb squad. Report cards were scheduled to go out that day and some guy decided to call in a bomb threat. He is probably still doing community service for that one.
crown14 said:
To us kids who grew up in the '50s, cherry bombs were vastly more desirable than M-80s, exceeding them in power, waterproof-ness and aerodynamics. If you had a pocketful of cherry bombs and a Whamm-O slingshot, you possessed artillery. Of course, it was a crew-served weapon, in that it took two to fire....
I still miss my wrist-rocket. I was the denizen of drunken tank-driver beetles... could pick one of those guys out of the air at 20 yards.
My own childhood was quite permeated with actions far less desirable. I did many things simply because I knew nobody was bright enough to catch me.
I'm pretty sure she knew she was up to no good.
Cheers,
Kennith
I'm pretty sure she knew she was up to no good.
Cheers,
Kennith
What's bullshit is that she's being charged as an adult in this. BUT the 17 year old that punched the ref who ended up dying in UT is only being charged as a junvenile.
jhk07 said:
That one took the cake for such stupidity are they now going to ban using your pointer finger as a weapon? These days common sense has left the building.
jhk07 said:
I have a "parent consultation" this afternoon.....
My 15yr old son, a freshman at High School here in Los Angeles, Ca
On Friday during a free period my son was drawing a pen and ink cartoon comic strip, based on a Zombie Apocalypse. The substitute teacher confiscated the drawing, and he was summoned later in the day to the principles office, accompanied by a school counsellor and the school behavioral specialist / consultant.
Apparently the substitute was concerned enough that she would not be able to sleep at night unless she reported her "concerns" and once reported the school is obligated to follow up.
Rover Mac said:
Dude, don't even try to hide the fact that your kid's into Manga.:rofl:
Cheers,
Kennith