Posted on 02/02/2008 4:01:15 PM PST by ShadowDancer
Police in Laramie, Wyo., Cite Teen Girls Who Threw French Fries for 'Hurling Missiles'
Friday, February 01, 2008
LARAMIE, Wyo. — Three 13-year-old girls accused of throwing french fries during lunchtime at their school were cited for "hurling missiles," an adult infraction covered by city ordinances.
The principal of Laramie Junior High and a police officer had warned students during an assembly the day before the french fries' launch that if they threw food, they had to suffer the consequences, Police Chief Bob Deutsch said. The warning came after school officials had heard rumors of an impending food fight.
"They saw it as really the planning of a riot, when you think about it," Deutsch said.
The girls decided to test the warning, he said.
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I feel safer now.
Criminal infraction? My ass. Suspend the incompetent principal.
Charge them with a felony and send them to prison. That’ll teach ‘em.
Oh yeah, that’ll get the teachers and principal a lot of respect from the students. WHFO.
more PC
I agree. This is clownish and should have not have police involvement. Detention or suspension, but a criminal charge is pathetic.
Criminal?
I don’t have a problem with it if they were warned ahead of time that this would happen.
If they’d been throwing donuts the SWAT team would have been sent in.
The Bush administration will take care of this.
They don’t want any acts of terror reported in US territory during their final year.
That’s what the story says. It’s an ‘adult infraction’, which — unless this ‘journalist’ is unusually shoddier than usual, that it’s a criminal charge (a misdemeanor, I sincerely hope...but one never knows with clowns like this).
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Criminalizing every little act of misbehavior trivializes the real crimes;you know,those crimes like rape,robbery,and murder.
Clogging the courts and police dockets with french fry attacks,5 year olds' temper tantrum, children drawing pictures of weapons or "gasp" having normal eating utensils in their lunch is a sign of something other than rational government.
If they had been throwing donuts, the entire police department would’ve turned out.
/Piling on.
Well, at least they weren’t tased. ;-) LOL!
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