Teens charged with 2nd-degree murder [Victim Killed with PEN! Where are the pen control laws??]

WPLG-TV ^ | 1/10/13

[SoFloFreeper]

Two teenagers accused of killing a manafter he introduced them to a female prostitute will be charged with second-degree murder, a judge ruled Thursday morning...

Llano told police he had Hypollite in a choke hold while Xolo stabbed him with a pen and hit him with a broken glassbottle.

Xolo denied using the bottle but admitted to stabbing Hypollite with a pen.

When officers arrived, they saw two teenagers hitting a man who was on the ground, said Hallandale Police Chief Dwayne Flournoy. The teenagers then ran away. Officers soon found Hypollite's body.

[SoFloFreeper]

The availability of pens is a real problem in America. I know they've been around since the founding of the Republic, but the men who crafted the Constitution NEVER expected pens to be used to murder.

[Salamander]

http://www.instructables.com/id/Pen-Crossbow-2/

[C210N]

It's the high capacity cartridges for pens that are the problem. We MUST limit pens to no more than 2!

[momtothree]

Oh my gosh. There is a pen on the desk.. about two feet from me. Do I slowly back away? Should I run?!

[Diogenesis]

When pens are outlawed, only Tyrants will have pens (to rewrite history).

[Truth29]

"The availability of pens is a real problem in America. I know they've been around since the founding of the Republic, but the men who crafted the Constitution NEVER expected pens to be used to murder."

Well, with the rate of literacy dropping like a stone due to the public school system, we soon won't have much need for pens anyway...

[green pastures]

It has been rumored that the pen _is_ mightier than the sword...

[Salamander]

KILL IT!

KILL IT WITH FIRE!

[KGeorge]

Llano, Xolo, & HYPOLLITE?! Is this a cartoon or a Greek tragedy? (I’m sorry. It’s not funny...well kinda)

Pencils, & letter openers are deadly, too.

[green pastures]

You should be okay— pens don’t kill people... People kill people...

[Salamander]

Go hunt around for “dirty fighting methods”.

You’ll be amazed.

[not that I’d know about such things, myself]

[shibumi]

And the foulest weapon of all - The Presidential Autopen!

[Salamander]

That doesn’t apply if it’s a Bic Clic.

It could go off at any moment.

[John123]

Look, pens don’t kill people. People kill people. /s

[Salamander]

Fiat nox.

[shibumi]

"KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!"

(Cover it with gas first!)

[I want the USA back]

The left suppresses the heretical thought that it is PEOPLE who kill, using instruments such as hands, knives, ropes, bombs or guns.

The left ALWAYS restricts objects. The real problem is people whose value system lets them kill and maim.

[green pastures]

Another kid stabbed me in the hand with a pencil when I was in 1st grade.

I have also been the recipient of a poison pen letter from time to time.

OUTLAW all of ‘em. No instruments of writing should be legal.

The ban should be extended to forks, sporks and sporkweasels, too!!!

[Salamander]

I didn’t know if mom23 has any accelerants lying about on her computer desk.

[Dr. Sivana]

We can deal with this problem in a rational, moderate manner. We don't need a complete confiscation. But really: who NEEDS a Sanford .2mm ultra-fine microball, at least besides lawyers and accountants who are properly certified? Why should pens be sold in TEN packs? Who needs TEN pens at a time? Also, those cheap BIC Biros and Papermates are found all over the place, the Biros in particular have a nasty habit of leaking ink when used in a stabbing. And those high-end Cross pens with their exchangeable cartridge feature ... utterly untraceable. Those old school fountain pens with a military style bayonet sharp nib? Barbaric!

No. Those who insist on pen ownership can use a felt tip pen only (no more than one every 34 days, as computers have made pens largely superfluous for real work); offices must lock their supplies in an approved pen safe. If anyone has need for a hard tip pen (including the semi-hard Pilot chisel tip), the proper form must be submitted. The form is in triplicate on carbon paper. Any indication of using a hard tip killer pen before approval will forfeit both the application and the $300 fee. There is no need for a complete ban.

[green pastures]

Good point..

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This article seems to tap dance around some rather obvious points, the first being, when someone is paid to introduce someone else to a prostitute, in the vernacular they are called a "pimp".

Second, that when a pimp and his prostitute have the opportunity to rip off their customers, they will likely take it.

Third, these boys must be plenty stupid to think they can rent a prostitute for $10, after paying her pimp $40.

Having said this, here is a picture of the alleged Mr. Gregory Hypollite. Don't you just love the shirt?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This reminds me of the rude t-shirt caption.

Pen is
Mightier

[KGeorge]

Actually, that’s no laughing matter. DH got stabbed with a pencil in grade school & you could still see the scar 20 sum odd years ago.
Ohhh forks are deadly. So deadly, I believe the Emperor had the plastic forks all gathered up at a luncheon in Florida where he was speaking last summer. I’m surprised anyone gets out of dinner alive.

ROFL sporkweasels

[Trailerpark Badass]

Llano, Hypolite, Xolo...I think I see the problem here.

[C210N]

It only takes an extra second or two when you have to use it, but think of the lives that can be saved if every pen had a safety lock.

[KGeorge]

LOL Oh, I would. When I moved into my first apartment by myself, I had a “deadly” potato peeler. I’d peeled off a good chunk of a finger a year or so earlier) Should make for some hilarious reading, tho.

[SoFloFreeper]

All good points. How long will it take Congress to act? The Big Pen lobby has been intractable.

Perhaps our Dear Leader can just issue an edict against the evil Pen Lobby.

[Rennes Templar]

Ban assault pens!

[hecticskeptic]

About 10 or 15 years ago (I think it was just after 2001) I was going through airport security somewhere and was asked if I had any sharp objects on me.... I said “yes, as a matter of fact I do” to which I was told “well, lay them out for inspection”. I proceeded to empty my pencil case in the tray at which point the security agent said “yeah, we really don’t know what to do about sharp pens....”

[Carthego delenda est]

The founders never intended for the public to use anything but a quill and inkwell.

[Aevery_Freeman]

Good start but you have completely failed to address the problem of the availability of writing implements in schools.

[flaglady47]

Llano, Hypolite, Xolo, you’re pulling my leg, right?

[Dr. Sivana]

And you cannot tell me that the big pen lobby isn't targeting our children with cartoon characters used to sell malevolent, cheap weaponry:

[KGeorge]

That was the good old days. It really ticks me off that I can’t even take a crochet hook or a sewing needle into jury duty. We’re kidding around but we’ve really lost our minds on this “security” stuff. We are neither secure nor sane.

[chris37]

I need pens.

What I don’t need at all is teens.

Ban ‘em.

[Salamander]

One word;

SHARPIES!!!

[Salamander]

Not to be confused with Shar Peis.

[Salamander]

Or the dreaded ball point pen knife.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

How about we ban cars which kill 40,000 - 50,000 people a year which is over twice the amount of gun deaths if you discount suicides by gun? If 30,000 people this year died by gun, half would be suicides which leaves 15,000. Yet anyone can own a car and anyone over 18 can operate one. Hmmmm, nope - nothing in the constitution that states “the right of the people to own cars shall not be infringed” The stats on gun deaths compared to other deaths really shows how the communist propaganda machine posing as our MSM influences public policy and frankly I’m getting sick to death of it. For example guess how many people drown every year? 1.2 MILLION around the world and 10 every day in the USA. Ever hear anything about that by our communist propaganda machine? Nope. Can’t control the people that way.

[Salamander]

I’m 5’3” and 100 lbs.

“Brute force” is something I’m never going to have.

When I was very young, my prison guard dad actually said “Since you’re a runt, you’re gonna have to fight dirty to survive” and then he proceeded to teach me all the nasty tricks that inmates know.

It was rather a ‘non-normal childhood’ but all my gal pals felt safe as could be when we went bar hopping.

The preferred place was at my right side where an empty beer bottle waited patiently on the floor.

:)

[Salamander]

A poorly concealed weapon, that!

[Salamander]

I know *one* person who was killed by a gun.
[suicide]

I know [or rather, knew] several people who were killed by vehicles.

Bizarrely, I do not feel a need to ban cars.

[Moltke]

I’m not even going to say what those look like. And they’re for young girls, right? *shakes head*

[bgill]

Broken glass bottles next on the list.

[PAR35]

At the time of the drafting of the constitution, they had quill pens that had to be frequently dipped in ink. The government should ban high capacity automatic cartridge and ball points. French made Bic pens are particularly deadly.

And the killing was obviously inspired by violent movies. Let’s blame the producers of “Grosse Point Blank” for including a horrific pen killing.

[C210N]

LOL. FWIW, that image *did* indeed show up on a google image search for “pen locks”.

[fella]

Pens have been used to rob more people of more money than guns. Just look at all the stimulus and entitlement laws.

[Gritty]

It's obvious the Founding Fathers never intended the people at large to be armed with anything more modern than a turkey quill pen!

[KGeorge]

lol Maybe it’s that awareness. I’ve never known a petite woman (both my grandmothers & numerous friends mom’s. Heh. My little sister) who wasn’t hell on wheels if you got on their bad side. Isn’t it awful to even have to contemplate this stuff?
Life was supposed to be more peaceful by now.