Kids Arrested for Food Fight

www.nbcchicago.com ^ | 11-09-09 | MATT BARTOSIK

[444Flyer]

Mom always told you not to play with your food. She probably didn't tell you that you could get arrested for it though.

More than two dozen students, ranging in age from 11 to 15 years old, were arrested on criminal charges after a food fight in a cafeteria at a Chicago charter school.

According to reports, a good old-fashioned food fight broke out Thursday at the Perspectives Charter Schools in Calumet. Someone tossed a piece of food, someone else threw an orange, someone yelled "Food fight!," and chaos ensued.

Twenty-five students were taken into custody at about 12 noon and charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct.

We remember when students were just sent giggling to the principal's office. But apparently, now some fries in the sky will earn a trip to the police station. Who knew handcuffs came in an 11-year-old's size?

[444Flyer]

Cheesy story.

[444Flyer]

[444Flyer]

O.K. I know it's late and I'm losing it...lol...I just needed a laugh...

P.S. Dinner rolls make the best projectiles.

[presently no screen name]

Doesn’t school detention exist any more? This is crazy - arrested for a food fight.

[444Flyer]

The punishment does seem a bit excessive.

[BobbyT]

Somehow I doubt they were arrested for throwing food around. It was likely because the next step was one of them picking up a chair and bashing another kid’s head in.

You know, like the kid who got beaten to death with the railroad spike. Or the half dozen fights at that school and neighboring ones in the following weeks. Or the kid who got his head bashed in at a Chicago school the other day—the thugs love making the headlines.

[M-cubed]

The Cops acted stupidly!...*G*

(wait till u see those same kids with a few beers in them!)

[MestaMachine]

I’m stickin’ with da mashedatatuhs...thank you very much. LOL
Arrested? Gubmintfood. Somewhere in the world, a ‘rat is starvin’.

[presently no screen name]

I’m going to lob a wet teabag your way for wasting a good dinner roll!

[LukeL]

Like what Larry Sinclair did to Obama?

[Allegra]

ARRESTED???

For a FOOD FIGHT???

I am so glad I'm not a kid these days. Seems like they can't have any real fun.

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

RoFL I Still have food fights, and water fights!!! I LOVE mud volleyball.. Tee hee ;-)

[444Flyer]

Gubmintfood

You'd throw it too!

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

LoL smack right on the face! Hahaha

[Allegra]

P.S. Dinner rolls make the best projectiles.

Those half-cobs of corn (with the butter on them, of course) are also awesome for throwing.

I've uhh....heard that somewhere.

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

FOOD fight!!!!!!

((Throwing cherry jello all over your faces))

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Its a brave new world we live in folks, welcome to the new and improved police state...

[444Flyer]

Ambrosia salad can stick to the wall for slightly under a second...

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

Globs of icing is especially great for face and hair.. Starting with nose and rubbing sideways..then running as fast as you can ;-)

[MestaMachine]

Geez! Is it ded?

[MestaMachine]

And DAT’S da truf!
I will never forget it as long as I live. I can’t. They got pitchers....

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

Peanut butter topped with flour all over the face is great for complexion, and shell fish are great to place on top of truck visors in the summer.

[Allegra]

Those chewy colorful Dot candies you buy at movie theaters were never meant for eating.

You lick the bottoms of them and lob them at the movie screen. It's harder than one would think to hit the screen and make 'em stick, but the cheers and applause you received for doing so was quite gratifying.

At least that was the practice on Friday nights at certain military base movie theaters back in the day...

Oh, and accidentally knocking a full cup of Coke and ice off of the ledge from the front row of the balcony onto some poor unsuspecting slobs in the seats below could be fun as well. (As soon as you do that, then you bolt out of that seat and run like hell.)

Silly parents leaving kids at the movie theater on Friday nights while they went to have a nice peaceful dinner elsewhere on base...

[444Flyer]

“Its a brave new world we live in folks, welcome to the new and improved police state...”

Now I'm wondering if it's some kind of subliminal message.

“Gibbs: Opponents of Obama starting ‘Animal House food fight’”

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/57511-gibbs-opponents-starting-animal-house-food-fight

“White House press secretary Robert Gibbs blasted the president's critics today for questioning the propriety of Obama’s speech to schoolchildren.

“It's a sad state of affairs that many in this country politically would rather start an ‘Animal House’ food fight rather than inspire kids to stay in school, to work hard,..”

[Allegra]

Peanut butter topped with flour all over the face is great for complexion, and shell fish are great to place on top of truck visors in the summer.

Raw hamburger meat packed behind the front bumper of a car in the summer can be a good time as well.

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

honey, there’s flies just crawling all over my car and inside!! Haahahaha

Pitchers of ice water thrown in the shower..

[444Flyer]

I'm just glad your on OUR team.

[444Flyer]

This little bugger looks like trouble, call the cops!

[Allegra]

Pitchers of ice water thrown in the shower..

Something real sticky like Hawaiian Punch in a water pistol...

[presently no screen name]

YOU were there! I missed one time and hit the wall and it stuck! While it was being looked at - I got my second one right on target. LOL! Nothing like a good food fight.

[presently no screen name]

Forgot about that one - come up behind your target, pull the collar back and drop down some ice cubes. If you can run and laugh at the same time, that’s more the better or hang around and watch them dance, then take off!

[Jack Hammer]

Arresting school kids for a food fight while Moslem terrorists walk around with impunity; what’s wrong with this picture?

[clee1]

But green peas and mashed potatoes are SO much more satisfying!

[SUSSA]

It’s hard to say who is worse here, the jackbooted cops or the bureaucrats who called them.

[Rebelbase]

I guess mashed potatoes on the ceiling is now a felony.

[Rebelbase]

Is that Kim Chi in the upper right corner of the plate?

[panthermom]

This story made me sick. How about having those kids get on their hands and knees and clean that mess!

You have young kids committing horrific crimes and the school thinks its necessary to arrest 11 yr. olds for a food fight. They worry so much about stressing kids out, self esteem, etc. But see no problem calling the police for throwing some mashed potatoes.

They are incompetent adults and unfortunately these kids are exposed to it daily.

[panthermom]

Not only can they not have fun, minor mistakes, earn you a trip to jail. We’d ALL have done some time in jail for the things we did as a kid if it were today.

As stupid as this sounds though, it is the fault of administrative policy and parents.

Parents today are soooo quick to defend their kids from any sort of discipline.

[Scotsman will be Free]

If this story is accurate, the school officials, aka clowns, should get their asses handed to them for calling the cops, and the cops, aka buffoons, should get reamed for arresting anyone.

[444Flyer]

Arresting school kids for a food fight while Moslem terrorists walk around with impunity; what’s wrong with this picture?

Post of the thread!

[goldi]

Public schools today — one-way ticket into the juvenile justice system.

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

LoL!! Always a great one! One of my personal favorites is to sneak up or not be obvious to hubby, with a glass of ice, preferably crushed, and quickly throw it down the back of his pants, inside undies of course!

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

Re:post of the thread...I loved it too, and then felt guilt cuz I only read the title, not article.

[444Flyer]

"...I loved it too, and then felt guilt cuz I only read the title, not article."

Absolutely no guilt involved. We need stories like this to throw relief into the heat of battle. Speaking of which...

[SUSSA]

You’re right and that would be being very kind.

[presently no screen name]

How about having those kids get on their hands and knees and clean that mess!

Exactly! And they will be laughing while doing it and probably another food fight on the floor. I say BIG DEAL - let them act like kids. Laughter w/a little bit of mischievous - with no harm to anyone - is what some of these kids need. Getting a lob of mashed potatoes in one's face isn't harmful, IMO. Laughing until my stomach hurt was such a part of my growing up years.

Are kids allowed to have snow ball fights any longer or will they be handcuffed for that, also?

[presently no screen name]

Did you stay to watch the show and decide to run some errands? LOL!! God bless your husband!

[Professional Engineer]

Assault with a deadly wegetable?

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

One of my FAVORITE movies like...ever ever ever! :)

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

Long enough to hear him gasp really loud, jump and turn and yell hey, stop... ROFL Then I ran!!! I was in tears laughing so hard. :) Yes, he’s the best... He can take it better than I though. hahaha