"SKRINNERRRRz!!!!"
Posted on 11/23/2006 9:21:01 AM PST by pabianice
(This article is instructive as to the depth and breadth of anti-gun hysteria resident in Deep Blue Massachusetts.)
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Auburn incident was accidental
AUBURN, MA — A 12-year-old Auburn Middle School student has admitted to police he accidentally dropped two .22-caliber bullets from his pocket Tuesday morning prompting a search and two-hour precautionary lockdown of the Swanson Road school.
Police Chief Andrew J. Sluckis Jr. said the student, who went to the police station with his father and talked to Detective James Lyman Tuesday night, will be summoned to Worcester Juvenile Court to face two charges of possession of ammunition without a firearm identification card.
“The student and his father contacted the Auburn Police Department Detective Bureau, and the student admitted and took responsibility for bringing the .22-caliber bullets into the school,” Chief Sluckis said yesterday morning.
Chief Sluckis said the student got the bullets from his father, who has an FID card. Chief Sluckis did not know the circumstances by which the bullets were brought to school.
Chief Sluckis said the youth, who is not being identified because of his age, told police he didn’t realize he had the bullets with him and they accidentally fell out of his pocket. One bullet was found in a first-floor boy’s restroom and the second round was found in a hallway leading up to the second floor.
Both rounds were found by students and turned over to their teachers, who contacted Principal Ann O’Leary Ortiz, who called police, Superintendent Helene Skrzyniarz said yesterday.
The discovery of the bullets that can be used in either a handgun or rifle led to a search of approximately 600 students and their lockers, as well as the two-hour lockdown in which students remained in their homerooms.
“One positive thing that came out of this was that no contraband was found in any of the lockers,” said Chief Sluckis, who defined contraband as weapons or drugs.
Ms. Skrzyniarz said she was “absolutely” pleased that no contraband was found in the student lockers.
Chief Sluckis, who met yesterday morning with Ms. Skrzyniarz and Mrs. Ortiz, said a person convicted of possessing ammunition without an FID card could face a year in prison and a $500 fine.
“Since he has no criminal record, I would not expect the court to be too heavy-handed,” Chief Sluckis said.
Mrs. Ortiz described the student as being “a nice kid and not anything close to being a problem in school,” Chief Sluckis said.
Nevertheless, he said the student could be facing some discipline from the School Department and Ms. Skrzyniarz said that likely would happen.
“I’m sure there will be consequences at the school level as well,” she said.
The student was not at school yesterday, Chief Sluckis said.
“His father made the decision to keep him out of school,” the chief said.
After the search was completed, students went to lunch and finished the rest of their school day as well as after-school activities, Ms. Skrzyniarz said. Mrs. Ortiz and Assistant Principal John Giodano talked with students at their tables during lunch to explain what had occurred, she added. Mrs. Ortiz also sent letters to the students’ parents and guardians detailing the situation, the superintendent said.
Ms. Skrzyniarz, who returned telephone calls yesterday to four parents who left messages for her on Tuesday, said she went to the school yesterday to see how the students were doing.
“I wanted to see how they were weathering the incident,” she said.
Students were dismissed early yesterday for the Thanksgiving Day holiday.
Ms. Skrzyniarz said she finished a meeting she was in and arrived at the school about 10 minutes after hearing what had happened. She said by the time she arrived about 10 to 12 “state and mostly local” police officers had arrived.
“It was busy at the school,” she said. “It was extremely quiet, extremely controlled,” she said.
Both Chief Sluckis and Ms. Skrzyniarz said the search and lockdown that was heavily covered by Boston television and radio stations, was justified.
“If we didn’t take any action we would have been negligent,” Chief Sluckis said.
I realize this is none of my business, but I don't understand why posters can't simply write the make and model of the firearms on this site. Someone will post, "Hey, I bought this great firearm yesterday" and then I think they wait for someone to ask just what they bought. Sort of like the posters who go through the trouble to post a picture and then can't take a couple of seconds to identify it.
So I guess I have to ask. What model and just what kind of competition are you doing with a Ruger? Do you have a picture?
Does anyone else think it was wrong for the Dad to force his son to submit to the MA gun nazis?
So the kid forgot to take two .22LR rounds out of his pocket, big deal. Send him home with a note to remind him and his dad of the school's policy and be done with it. Zero tolerance is for zero intellect.
The student may have learned his lesson-----that being, in the future to keep his mouth shut and never admit to anything.
"SKRINNERRRRz!!!!"
At the risk of being villified I will state my firm belief the situation is because more women are in positions of authority.
Women tend to be more socialistic and less phyically active.
The women teachers of my youth were more likely to punish both parties for fighting rather than attempt to determine who was the aggressor.
Read the Democrats' book "Why Mommy is a Democrat",and be afraid,very afraid.
Any idea what nationality that name originates from?
Cartridge:
Bullets:
(the cartridge above is a centerfire 9mm JHP - same principle)
Hey, new way to get out of taking a test!... Just drop a bullet in the hall next to the principal's office. The goofy libs will do the rest. Cheap, too.
Almost certain it's Polish.
It's not just Massachusetts, unfortunately. Last year my grandson forgot to remove his small Swiss Army knife from his pocket before school. A teacher spotted the outline, and we went through a six month ordeal, including felony charges. It all worked out, in the end, but the entire episode was beyond ridiculous.
When you live out in the boonies, as we do, you don't go out the door without your pocket knife, not as a weapon, but as something you will need and use.
And this is from a state that once made it a crime NOT to be armed while traveling, and required people to bring their guns to church.
You're the only one who caught my meaning, apparently.
Zero tolerance insanity.
No, there is still a danger from bullets. Improvise a slingshot with a pencil and elastic and launch those sobs. lol.
My guess: Polish. It looks like some sort of slavic name. Remember Zbigniew Brzynski? Carter's NSA.
Finding a cartridge leads to mass pants wetting and soiling event. State is now know as Massopussyidiots.
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