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Students Arrested Over 'Violent' Stick Figure Drawings
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 3:08 am
by psi29a
I repeat... stick figure.
http://www.local6.com/news/4130302/detail.html
I'm glad the administration at my 'ol HS didn't see my "misadventures of paco the stickman".
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 3:17 am
by Arresty
They worry way to much about violence in school today. To get a felony for drawings like that. I knew kids that did stuff like that all the time. I think it was more a way of getting out stress, and by doing it, I woudl say it woudl actually help prevent a violent outburst. Oh well.
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 3:42 am
by Eldo
When I was in Grade 4 I drew a picture of Goro from Mortal Kombat disembowling opponents with his four arms. I drew it for a villian in a fairy tale story. It had lots of blood and heads getting ripped off. Don't see why I wasn't suspended then.
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 4:04 am
by Ishi-dono
Australia > US
The school system here blows...
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 4:17 am
by Eldo
I think the main reason is because I didn't draw stick figures...
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:33 am
by Gaiseric
Did you guys read the article? Its not just a violent drawing, apparently the kids were threatening another kid(notice the names above the stickmen). Thats why the kids were suspended and arrested.
Oh, and they are special ed students!
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 7:05 am
by Eldo
Well, I didn't think much about 'death threat' but rather 'bullying'. The drawing did play a large part, I don't think they would get massively fucked to be charged by the legal system if it was just verbal. It's sad isn't it?
Two boys, ages 9 and 10, were charged with felonies and taken away from school in handcuffs, accused of making violent drawings of stick figures.
The boys were arrested Monday on charges of making a written threat to kill or harm another person, a second-degree felony.
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 11:20 pm
by dos.azn
wow and i thought U.S. Court case "Tinker v. Des Moines" was absurd, but now....
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 11:38 pm
by Arresty
Yes. Yes. Its a sad direction we are heading now.
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 1:08 am
by Buzkashi
back in middle school, for like 2 weeks the whole school was in a craze of making flip books. We would buy the smaller post it notes packets and jst start making them on it. Damn where som of those violent. Then we went into the hacky sacking frenzy, where you couldnt even walk in the halls w/o having a hacky sack flying at you.
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 2:29 pm
by Damien
Well Damn...
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 2:42 pm
by Evanidus
Speaking of violent stick figures, I was thinking of using that as next avatar:
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 4:08 pm
by Arresty
I like it but be careful you might get arrested.
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 4:25 am
by Starnum
Well at first the thought of kids getting arrested for a drawing was sickening. However, if they were threatening someone, that's a little different. I don't know about bringing the law into it though. Maybe just discipline them there at school *shrugs*.
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:43 am
by dos.azn
Evanidus wrote:Speaking of violent stick figures, I was thinking of using that as next avatar:
hehe