Posted on 05/25/2006 1:44:20 PM PDT by lowbridge
Bert and Ernie Packing Heat on Sesame Street BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) — Brockton High School has banned T-shirts with Sesame Street characters. But these are no regular pictures of Bert and Ernies.
On some, Oscar the Grouch emerges from his garbage can, wielding a 9 mm handgun. On others, Bert and Ernie are standing in a gang posture, armed with automatic weapons.
"We were amazed," said the school's principal, Susan Szachowicz. "You focus on the Sesame Street character. But the more we looked at it, the more we saw the things in it, the guns, the gang stuff."
There have only been a few shirts at school, but officials said students are being told to stop wearing them because of the pro-gang message. School officials also said they violate the school dress policy.
Last week, Brockton was awarded $685,000 in state anti-gang funding.
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Yeah, Muppet gangs.
*snort*
They got the anti-gang funding and need to justify it somehow.
all this fuss over sesame street thugs? why didn't i hear any outrage 10 years age when it was all looney toons thugwear in style?
So.. Reptoids are also Anti-Semitic?
That wouldn't stop him...
I worked in Brockton, Mass. years ago, it was a sad, depressing crime ridden slum.
Ummm... sorry, I meant "democratic stronghold".
Anyway, remember a few months ago when Brockton made national headlines because a 6 year-old was expelled from school because he pinched a 4 year-old girl - he was expelled for "sexual harrassment".
More madness from the land of Kerry and Kennedy.
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