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Knife At Lunch Gets 10-Year-Old Girl Arrested At School
WFTV.COM ^ | 12/14/07 | WFTV.COM

Posted on 12/17/2007 12:36:23 PM PST by DFG

OCALA, Fla. -- A 10-year old Ocala girl brought her lunch to school and a small kitchen knife to cut it. She now faces a felony charge after being arrested. The school and the sheriff's office disagree on the reason for the arrest.

School officials say the 5th grader was brown-bagging it. She brought a piece of steak for her lunch, but she also brought a steak knife. That's when deputies were called.

It happened in the cafeteria at Sunrise Elementary School. The 10-year-old used the knife to cut the meat.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: discipline; florida; pc; threadnumber3; zerotolerance
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To: DFG
Surely Child Protective Services will now want to inspect the parents home for more unsecured deadly steak knives.

SWAT needs to be called in.

41 posted on 12/17/2007 12:54:03 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: DFG

Note my tag line.


42 posted on 12/17/2007 12:54:22 PM PST by JamesP81 ("I am against "zero tolerance" policies. It is a crutch for idiots." --FReeper Tenacious 1)
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To: DFG
She now faces a felony charge after being arrested - it is a felony to have a steak knife?
43 posted on 12/17/2007 12:55:10 PM PST by SF Republican
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To: DFG

“Zero Tolerance” is amok by definition. Everybody cheers it at first, cuz we’re gonna kick some “bad guy” ass. And then the reality of it sets in.


44 posted on 12/17/2007 12:56:37 PM PST by Wolfie
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To: SF Republican

It’s a felony to bring a “weapon” into a school, I assume.


45 posted on 12/17/2007 12:56:44 PM PST by Tax-chick (Every committee wants to take over the world.)
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To: SF Republican
"it is a felony to have a steak knife?"

Not sure, but I know having one at a gun fight is a capital offense.

46 posted on 12/17/2007 12:57:30 PM PST by joebuck
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To: jeffj

“... a steak knife could easily inflict serious damage if used as a weapon.”

So could a compass (the kind used to draw circles).


47 posted on 12/17/2007 12:59:21 PM PST by riverdawg
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To: DFG

All that she needed to say was that she wanted to use it on George Bush. Not only would she have escaped punishment, but the publik scewl teechurz would have given her all A’s this year.


48 posted on 12/17/2007 1:01:50 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed less people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: DFG

In the early 70s I wore a 4” Buck folding hunter on my belt to school every day.

Never once thought of it as a weapon, and nobody every asked me about it.


49 posted on 12/17/2007 1:02:06 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: DFG

Her true crime: Real meat on a school campus


50 posted on 12/17/2007 1:02:22 PM PST by sticker
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To: Domandred
What happened to PB&J for kids sack lunch.

LOL!! Ain't tht the truth?
51 posted on 12/17/2007 1:03:02 PM PST by no dems (FRED THOMPSON: The only Conservative running who can beat Hillary or Obama.)
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To: beltfed308
from the article: "Anytime there's a weapon on campus, yes, we have to report it and we aggressively report it because we don't want to take any chances, regardless,"

when is a steak knife just a steak knife and not a weapon?????

52 posted on 12/17/2007 1:03:10 PM PST by is_is (VPD of Sgt Daniel, 2/5- WIA, currently stateside - "Sleep Well America......My Marine has your Back")
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To: DFG
Arrested for brandishing a deadly weapon?

At there's no report of her being tazered in the following assault.

For the love of G_d, if you care for your children and there's any way this side of the grave you can possibly do it. Home School them!
53 posted on 12/17/2007 1:03:56 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
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To: DFG
"And we didn't handcuff her or treat her like a criminal. But, we took her to the assessment center to be assessed," said Capt. James Pogue, Marion County Sheriff's Office.

I assess that there's a lot of dumb***es running this place.
54 posted on 12/17/2007 1:03:57 PM PST by JamesP81 ("I am against "zero tolerance" policies. It is a crutch for idiots." --FReeper Tenacious 1)
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To: Tax-chick

To the viewing audience—are your children still attending the state run looney bins?

If so, why are you complaining about the policies you subject your little ones to?

Home school/private school (you do get what you pay for). Vote. Pull your children out the mainstream (remember, all the salmon that swim upstream are on a oneway trip!).

Education, however you look at it, IS about control-just who the controllers are is the variable....

God bless us in spite of ourselves...


55 posted on 12/17/2007 1:05:07 PM PST by Manly Warrior (US Army, Retired)
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To: AndyTheBear
They have a blanket rule and they must follow procedure for everyone. Publik scewls can’t make exceptions. The parents of children who brought knives to school to do harm would raise holy hell about double standards. Most of all, making everyone follow a blanket rule reinforces the socialist agenda. Trust me, i m a publik scewl teechur.
56 posted on 12/17/2007 1:05:40 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed less people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Squawk 8888
I used to think that a good way to bring about the repeal of stupid laws would be to strictly enforce them to create a backlash. Having seen where zero-tolerance is going, I gave up on the notion.

One of the inherent strengths of liberalism and stupidity (but perhaps I repeat myself) is that they are both immune to the reductio ad absurdum argument.
57 posted on 12/17/2007 1:06:18 PM PST by JamesP81 ("I am against "zero tolerance" policies. It is a crutch for idiots." --FReeper Tenacious 1)
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To: Manly Warrior

I’ve been homeschooling for 12 years, since my oldest daughter was 4.


58 posted on 12/17/2007 1:06:35 PM PST by Tax-chick (Every committee wants to take over the world.)
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To: Dr.Zoidberg

Don’t know where it went, but there’s supposed to be a “Least” between At and there’s.


59 posted on 12/17/2007 1:07:36 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
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To: Loud Mime
Ask for a trial by jury.

I don't know if that would help you. After all, it was a jury that actually indicted the Duke Lacrosse players.
60 posted on 12/17/2007 1:09:28 PM PST by JamesP81 ("I am against "zero tolerance" policies. It is a crutch for idiots." --FReeper Tenacious 1)
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