Posted on 08/28/2014 10:10:59 AM PDT by mandaladon
SUMMERVILLE, SC — Police were summoned to a high school after a boy wrote a story about using a gun to kill a dinosaur. The boy was searched, suspended from school, and subsequently handcuffed and arrested when he did not handle the interrogation calmly.
Alex Stone, 16, said he was assigned to come up with a fictional story for a creative writing assignment at Summerville High School on August 19, 2014. The brief assignment involved writing a few lines that were supposed to mimic a social media post; a “status update” drafted on paper.
Stone’s submission discussed himself and a fictitious dinosaur that lived next door to him. He wrote that he used a gun to kill the dinosaur.
“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 to NBC 12.
The mere mention of using a “gun” to “take care of business” prompted school administrators to phone police to report the suspicious narrative. The Summerville Police Department responded to the absurd call, expending taxpayer resources to investigate a boy’s imagination.
Without probable cause of a crime, police searched Stone’s personal belongings, his backpack, and his locker, presumably looking for a gun or a deceased dinosaur. They found neither.
As Stone was interrogated by police and school administrators, he insisted his writing was only make-believe; a joke. They continued to press him, and police documented his eventual reaction as “irate.” They placed the student in handcuffs and hauled him off to jail on a charge of disorderly conduct.
The entire experience could have been avoided if school staff would have accepted the narrative as the fantasy that it was intended to be, as prescribed by the assignment.
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There was a ‘story’ kicking around yesterday about a teacher from Maryland’s Eastern Shore that wrote a couple of fiction novels (using a pen name) based on the year 2500 or so and it depicted a mass shooting at a school - the gist of the story was the blatant bureaucracy and how the country had formed into a giant sea of red tape.
Anyway, someone recognized him and ‘turned him in’ and he was ‘WHISKED AWAY FOR EVALUATION’ to an undisclosed location outside of the Eastern Shore.
In addition to being suspended etc he was BANNED FROM ENTERING ANY SCHOOL IN 2 MD COUNTIES.
The idea being he would maybe live out his fantasies.
NOW, playing the Devils Advocate
...What if he were in charge of Women and wrote books on rape, abduction and mutilation of women.
Would the same women that called in on behalf of the ‘brilliant teacher’ have the same thought if she were to HAVE to work for the ‘other’ author.
Yes, I know they would have the CHOICE to leave but we all know it doesn’t work that way once the ‘thought police’ get involved.
There was a ‘story’ kicking around yesterday about a teacher from Maryland’s Eastern Shore that wrote a couple of fiction novels (using a pen name) based on the year 2500 or so and it depicted a mass shooting at a school - the gist of the story was the blatant bureaucracy and how the country had formed into a giant sea of red tape.
Anyway, someone recognized him and ‘turned him in’ and he was ‘WHISKED AWAY FOR EVALUATION’ to an undisclosed location outside of the Eastern Shore.
In addition to being suspended etc he was BANNED FROM ENTERING ANY SCHOOL IN 2 MD COUNTIES.
The idea being he would maybe live out his fantasies.
NOW, playing the Devils Advocate
...What if he were in charge of Women and wrote books on rape, abduction and mutilation of women.
Would the same women that called in on behalf of the ‘brilliant teacher’ have the same thought if she were to HAVE to work for the ‘other’ author.
Yes, I know they would have the CHOICE to leave but we all know it doesn’t work that way once the ‘thought police’ get involved.
Chances are, the dinosaur was buried in the nearby woods........no kid would haul it to school and store it in his locker
But I missed the deputy.
You know what? I shot a dinosaur too. There I admitted it. I didn’t have a dinosaur tag and I used a fully-semi-automatic assault rifle that is undetectable and shoots 30 clips per second! Oh and guess what Hickenlooper, I had a 16 round magazine!
When I was in JROTC, they actually issued us rifles - M1 Garands.
My advice to young Mr. Stone, sue everyone involved into oblivion. Don’t stop until you’ve taken everything you possibly can.
Don’t you mean a 16 clip magazine?
They sell them at gun shows, of course.
So Bradbury’s story “A sound of thunder” is also illegal?
At 16 If the police had questioned me about shooting a dinosaur I would have admitted to it and led them to where I had buried the body.
Actually, I reviewed the literature and, according to Sen. Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles), my ghost gun can disperse with a thirty magazine clip in half a second assuming I use the .30 caliber clip.
In addition to suing everyone involved Alex should hire some PIs to sift through the lives of his tormentors with a fine tooth comb and use any dirt he finds with extreme prejudice. Destroy those scumbags!
I would be irate too if I wrote a piece of fiction, as asked, and was interrogated by the police.
So now he has an arrest record. For nothing.
This country has become a fascist hell hole. What you think is now controlled and you are arrested for thinking the wrong thoughts.
lolz
Has to be true since there are no more dinosaurs around. People killed that endangered species.
And “bullets” and “ammunition” and “cartridges” are all the same thing in liberal-speak. There was a story about that in a UK paper last year, and let us not forget how many “bullets” hit that poor woman’s house in Gaza a few years ago. Some reporter gave her three cartridges to hold up as evidence of Israeli atrocities, and the dipshit media could care less about the truth and reality.
Open the door, get on the floor
Everybody kill the dinosaur
Open the door, get on the floor
Everybody kill the dinosaur
Boom boom acka lacka lacka boom
Boom boom acka lacko boom boom
Boom boom acka lacka lacka boom
Boom boom acka lacko boom boom
It seems that as every day goes by liberals are less and less able to distinguish between reality and make-believe.
Being “reality challenged” is the very definition of a liberal.
By the precedent established here, someone needs to go out and arrest Eric Clapton and Bob Marley's ghost.
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