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Student Removed from High School after Making a Map of His School in Counter-Strike
Advanced Media Network ^ | 2007-05-02 | Matthew Wirgler

Posted on 05/02/2007 1:43:04 PM PDT by www.saveourguns.org

A senior from a Texas high school will not be going to his graduation ceremony after designing 3D levels of his school in a shooting game.

Officers came into his home and reportedly found five swords which they deemed a level 3 terrorist threat. Since then, the unnamed man had been transferred to an "alternate education facility"

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To: microgood

“The minute we don’t (take something serious), something serious is going to happen,” a member of the school’s district administration said. “You’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.””

All they care about is covering their ass.


101 posted on 05/02/2007 3:29:32 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
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To: knarf

“What would YOU think if you found a shooting game on your son’s or daughter’s computer and your home was the floorplan?”

That my toddlers were brilliant. Amazing for kids that are barely potty trained!


102 posted on 05/02/2007 3:38:33 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
"That mass hysteria again. It sweeps the USA from time to time. Some people lose their ability to think clearly, and then do things that are irrational. This is an example of that “zero tolerance” foolishness. Meanwhile, people who are really going to do something are not stopped."

...agreed. We're only getting a tiny hint of what's to come from feminization of our nation.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hysteria \Hys*te"ri*a\, n. [NL.: cf. F. hyst['e]rie. See
     Hysteric.] (Med.)
     A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women,
     in which the emotional and reflex excitability is
     exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished,
     so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes
     the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into
     paroxism or fits.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: The chief symptoms are convulsive, tossing movements of
           the limbs and head, uncontrollable crying and laughing,
           and a choking sensation as if a ball were lodged in the
           throat. The affection presents the most varied
           symptoms, often simulating those of the gravest
           diseases, but generally curable by mental treatment
           alone. Hysteric




103 posted on 05/02/2007 3:38:53 PM PDT by familyop
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To: Xenalyte

How many kids used the mods programs to put in teachers or administrators or friends in Doom or Castlewolfenstein?

Unless these jackbooted thought police school administrators found a Super Delux Zapomatic Deathray in the kids closet there is no actual ability to carry out the game.

(mens rea and actus rea for those lawyers from rio linda)

I hope this kid sues the pants off the school.


104 posted on 05/02/2007 3:45:02 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

BTW, that definition of hysteria is a little dated only in that hysteria is no longer limited “almost exclusively in women.” SNAGs (sensitive new age “guys”—especially male feminists) would be included now.


105 posted on 05/02/2007 3:45:56 PM PDT by familyop
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To: cripplecreek
I really have to wonder what kind of twisted individual would model a school in a shooter game.

My buddy & I were going to model a local university campus (I went there - he worked there). It's just kinda cool to see familiar territory in a game. It's kind of like flying over your town in flight simulator. It has nothing to do with being sick in the head.

106 posted on 05/02/2007 3:50:59 PM PDT by BearCub
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To: stephenjohnbanker; B4Ranch

Oh oh. That’s scary.

That makes three of us......

:)


107 posted on 05/02/2007 3:58:04 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (See HiJinx's tag line....then DO it!!!!)
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Golly, I wonder what level terror threat it would have been if they had gone through this at my first year of high school.

The first week of school each new student was required to draw a precise map, to scale, of the entire campus and be able to give precise directions to every room of every building and know what that room was for.

And every one of us had an M-1 military rifle which had to be either in our hands, or secured in our own lockers. Some of us were required to have swords and/or bayonets too!

Admittedly, this was a military school, and it was considered part of turning us all into competent, decent American citizens, and hopefully, most of us into military officers.

I imagine that any public school administrator or teacher today would literally wet themselves over the mere thought of something like this.

Yet there was not one murder or attempted murder amongst the student body during the 5 years that I was there. (It was combined High School and Junior College.)


108 posted on 05/02/2007 4:00:06 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: TheKidster

Very good point.


109 posted on 05/02/2007 4:02:05 PM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid!)
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To: Yo-Yo
What, are we operating re-education Gulags now?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Yes, they are called government schools.

They are almost always, with almost no exception, the largest, most expensive buildings in any neighborhood. Many look like the prisons that they really are.

110 posted on 05/02/2007 4:09:44 PM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid!)
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To: doodad

I mean this kind of P-90

111 posted on 05/02/2007 4:09:54 PM PDT by EricT. (The tree of liberty needs to be watered...)
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To: www.saveourguns.org

When the F***ing hell are we gonna get our SANE society back from the freaks? I mean the control freaks and nanny staters and idiot who think HRC and Obama are the Second Coming?


112 posted on 05/02/2007 4:20:56 PM PDT by Clock King (Bring the noise!)
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To: Brad's Gramma; B4Ranch

Great minds think alike : )


113 posted on 05/02/2007 4:21:27 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! Or Rudy/Hillary if you want to murder conservatism)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; B4Ranch

But of COURSE! :)


114 posted on 05/02/2007 4:22:01 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (See HiJinx's tag line....then DO it!!!!)
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To: www.saveourguns.org
Officers came into his home and reportedly found five swords which they deemed a level 3 terrorist threat.

So how does this scale work? Would a broad ax be considered a level 2 threat or a level 4? How about a wizard's staff? Do Elvish blades carry any enhancement on this scale? 

115 posted on 05/02/2007 4:25:15 PM PDT by Redcloak (The 2nd Amendment isn't about sporting goods.)
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To: Xenalyte
If your kid has a shooter on the computer, s/he is NOT busting caps in the parents. Zombies, Nazis, zombie Nazis, pirates, terrorists . . . I have never, never seen a game staging kids versus parents, and I've been gaming a long time.

I don't know why people don't understand this. Granted, some of the bloodier FPSs probably aren't good for small children, but I hardly think civilization is going to come crashing down. I guess that since I like CounterStrike, Day of Defeat, Halo 2, and The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion combined with the fact that I own a sword, a few rifles, I'm a blackbelt in karate, and hunting bow, I must be way past a level three terrorist threat. If they knew about me, they'd be at defcon 1 or something...

All those "terrible" games I play, and I've never so much as gotten a speeding ticket.
116 posted on 05/02/2007 4:29:09 PM PDT by JamesP81 (Eph 6:12)
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To: www.saveourguns.org
I see the purges have begun. If you fall outside the norm in any way, you will be excluded from society and oppressed (thus ensuring that the person will increase his affinity for society and reduce the likelihood that he may want to act against it).

And of course, violent video games are to blame. Always.
117 posted on 05/02/2007 4:30:07 PM PDT by billybudd
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To: Letaka

What if...what if.... but he didn’t and I wouldn’t have my kid in a school for nuthin. Oh wait, maybe for one reason.
If it meant i could get a different choice chosen, that’s the ONLY way I would. Then i would. Only then. (private school)
:D


118 posted on 05/02/2007 4:41:13 PM PDT by Shimmer128 (My beloved is mine and I am his Song of Sol. 2:16)
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To: Darksheare

shhhh. don’t tell or they’ll be coming after her next.


119 posted on 05/02/2007 4:42:25 PM PDT by Shimmer128 (My beloved is mine and I am his Song of Sol. 2:16)
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To: JamesP81

ooooh, i’m tellllllinnnnnnnnnn


120 posted on 05/02/2007 4:44:41 PM PDT by Shimmer128
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