Student arrested after writing about killing dinosaur with gun

[green73]

SUMMERVILLE, SC (WCSC) - 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.

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http://www.nbc12.com/story/26319685/...-on-assignment

[XNavyNuke]

http://www.postandcourier.com/articl...e-bought-a-gun

The school's students were held in their classrooms while officers conducted a search of the teen's locker and bookbag. No weapon was ever found, according to Summerville police. Officers placed the "irate" student in handcuffs and detained him for disturbing schools, the report said.

If you don't talk back to the LEO, nothing bad will ever happen to you. They promise!

XNN

[GunnyFreedom]

The police, at the behest of a school teacher, disturbed an entire school in order to harass a young man and criticize his authorial skill, whereupon they charged the young man with disturbing the school? This kinda sounds like it should be in the Onion.

[pcosmar]

The police, at the behest of a school teacher, disturbed an entire school in order to harass a young man and criticize his authorial skill, whereupon they charged the young man with disturbing the school? This kinda sounds like it should be in the Onion.

As we peel back the layers,, it could make some cry.

Reality is becoming worse than satire.

[mad cow]

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

Guns are easy to dispose of,dinosaur bones,not so much.

Dig up his backyard.

[Root]

Bizarro-world continues. Wow, just wow.

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

how insensitive to dinosaurs, they're extinct

[otherone]

Guns are easy to dispose of,dinosaur bones,not so much.

Dig up his backyard.

call in a psychic. can't hurt. we know the kid is guilty after all...there was a confession.

[aGameOfThrones]

a teacher did this.... sue the bitch and the school for hiring the bitch

[moostraks]

For the police state to function fully however, participation from amongst the populace was key. Their vital tool here was to be the Inofizelle Mitarbeiter (I.M). IMs were unofficial collaborators who informed on work colleagues, friends, and even their own spouses. Informers were a part of everyday life, supplying the Stasi with the banal trivialities that they deemed necessary to neutralise their targets. During the lifespan of the communist regime in East Germany it is estimated from existing archival material that there were up to 500,000 informers active at various times. Or more starkly one in 30 of the population had worked for the Stasi by the fall of the GDR. Informers were controlled by their own special department, HA IX (Main Department 9), often referred to as ‘the centre of the inquisition.’

...People became I.Ms for a number of reasons in his view: for personal gain; so visits to the West would be granted; from a desire to change the system from within; or in the majority of cases through blackmail and coercion by the Stasi. Fear then, was also used as a tool to recruit informers from the general populace.

http://thevieweast.wordpress.com/201...ing-the-stasi/

[acptulsa]

During World War II Americans laughed at the Japanese Thought Police.

I wonder if the Japanese are laughing at ours today?

[CPUd]

[JustinTime]

Eric Holder said it, in order to ban guns they "will really have to just brainwash people".

This incident, the infamous "pop tart gun", the "Hello Kitty Bubble blower" incident, and the recent story where a 4th grader brought a lime green nerf gun to school for show and tell are all about getting 'em while they're young. Get into those little heads and give them a totally irrational, unreasoning fear of guns.

[DamianTV]

So now a Meteor didnt kill the dinosaurs, a single gun did? lolololol Oh, but if you talk about that gun that killed off the dinosaurs, you'll get suspended and later likely arrested, tazed, shot, and incarcerated, in that order!

[Working Poor]

Reality is becoming worse than satire.

LOL

[RSLudlum]

Guess what? The school never contacted the parents either. As of this interview, neither the mother nor father had been contacted by the school, and Rocky D's show airs 3-6pm weekdays in Charleston. Parents don't matter when nanny's babysitting.

http://www.thebryancrabtreeshow.com/...osaur-comment/

[AFPVet]

It would be funny if it were satire... unfortunately, we have Idiocracy going on now.

[Mani]

You know what...Its really funny until a dinosaur gets hurt. We need to take these actions seriously.


Because the threat of killing a dinosaur is serious. They don't have the ability to speak up for themselves! It's difficult when you are a few bones short of a skeleton and have been dead for a zillion years. But that doesn't make it any less painful for the dinosaurs that are in fear of their safety. No one looks out for the rights of dinosaurs. I'm glad the cops took care of this potential dinosaur killer and taught him a lesson.

[r3volution 3.0]

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.

...am I the only one who found this the most disturbing part of the story?

What's next, toilet-stall graffiti 101?

[fr33]

He's lucky the police officers only arrested him and did not kill/taze/mace/beat him. Police can't think for themselves and are afraid of their own shadows. The school administrators told the dumb pigs what to do and they did it. That child is far scarier than their own shadows. We should be thankful the kid is still alive.

[aGameOfThrones]

Who's really the terrorist?

[Schifference]

Imagine writing some piece of fiction like Natural Born Killers nowadays.

[Mani]

Imagine writing some piece of fiction like Natural Born Killers nowadays.

There's stuff I wrote/drew in elementary school that would have gotten me in so much trouble in today's bizarro world.

[AngryCanadian]

LOL you cant be serious?

[asurfaholic]

...am I the only one who found this the most disturbing part of the story?

What's next, toilet-stall graffiti 101?

Nope. This jumped out at me too. Its sickening.

[Mani]

Nope. This jumped out at me too. Its sickening.

Their next assignment is to write an essay about themselves in 140 characters, include hashtags for extra credit.


And if you dump ice water on your head and record it in a 20 second vine like video, you get a no homework pass for the next 3 days!

[Mani]

I think this sums up our education system nicely:






Very good boys and girls...Single file now...Take the $#@! we've piling up on your head and walk into the toilet before we flush...move along and don't ask questions...

[Henry Rogue]

It would have been the FBI there instead had he wrote the word bomb. The state is getting pretty good at this indoctrination thing. Stalin would be proud.

[oyarde]

As a true sportsman , I hunt them with spears .

[Occam's Banana]

Even Philosoraptor does not approve ...