[Blood of Tyrants]

"He lives in a household where apparently there's drug dealing, and when he sees these little bags of rock cocaine around the house, they're telling him it's candy,"

Ya think?

[MisterRepublican]

"The neighborhood around the school can be "a tough area," with street drug dealing sometimes visible from school grounds, school officials said."

[reagan_fanatic]

How sad that a child has to grow up in an environment such as that.

[ClearCase_guy]

I would never tell my child that the cocaine is candy -- it might lead to trouble (as we see here).

On the other hand, the trick I play on my 6-year old, is that I leave my loaded gun around and tell her "If you point this at people and pull the trigger, you will tickle the other person! But you shouldn't touch the gun until you're older." So far, she hasn't touched it. Based on that, I guess my little joke is harmless.

[/sarcasm]

[jwalburg]

a person familiar with the situation was angry with the response by police

That's right. It's all the fault of the police.

[12 Gauge Mossberg]

Only in Chicago.

[taxesareforever]

How did these drugs get thru that "Drug Free Zone"? I thought here was lights, sirens, barbed wire and Swat teams on guard in the "Drug Free Zone". Also, was this individual handcuffed and escorted from the school grounds and told never to come back again? Now if this person had drawn a picture of a gun, whoa nellie, now that would be a very serious violation of school code.

[nmh]

"40 bags of rock in his book bag . . . when he gets to school he finds them in his book bag, and he knows this is 'candy' because this is what [people in his home] say it is," Camilli said. "Then he starts handing it out. It's insane."


OMG!

[sandbar]

So how much 'candy' has this little boy eaten?

Dumba&&'s are telling a little kid it's CANDY??? And leaving it around the house?

I'm sickened.