Posted on 02/02/2011 5:07:09 AM PST by Second Amendment First
Andrew Mikel II admits it was a stupid thing to do. In December, bored and craving attention, the 14-year-old used a plastic tube to blow small plastic pellets at fellow students in Spotsylvania High School. In one lunch period, he scored three hits.
"They flinched. They looked annoyed," Mikel said.
The school district saw it as more than a childish prank. School officials expelled him for possession and use of a weapon, and they called a deputy sheriff to the scene, said Mikel and his father, Andrew Mikel Sr.
The younger Mikel, a freshman, said he was charged with three counts of misdemeanor assault. The case was first reported by the Web site WorldNetDaily.
Spotsylvania school officials declined to comment on the incident, citing student confidentiality rules. But documents that the school produced when Mikel's father filed a Freedom of Information Act request show internal division over the matter.
The federal Gun-Free Schools Act mandates that schools expel students who take weapons, including hand guns, explosive devices and projectile weapons, to school. E-mail traffic among school officials showed they ruled that Mikel's plastic tube, which was fashioned from a pen casing, met the definition of a projectile weapon because it was "used to intimidate, threaten or harm others."
School officials in some e-mails referred to the plastic casing as a "metal tube." The plastic pellets were called "B-Bs."
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“shooting spit wads through Bic pens.”
Blast from the past!
We used to have the rows of tall windows with pull blinds that had long heavy cords on them. We would tie all of them into nooses. A whole long line of nooses hanging there. Can you imagine the outcry that would happen today if a student did that?
Had to, can’t play mumblety peg without a knife! I always had a fair sized bag of marbles in my pocket too.
Ha, that was my first thought as well. Back in the day it was nothing to park your truck in the school parking lot, leave the windows down, have a shotgun in the headache rack and ammo rolling around in the floorboard. You could also have a knife in your boot and a can of Skoal in your back pocket and no one would have ever thought to say a thing about it. This current PC bs is doing nothing but raising little wimps who are afraid of their shadows. How things have changed in such a short time. Imagine a Red Dawn happening in America these days...
Three counts of misdemeanor assault. Give me a break, Any good principla would have solved this without it leaving the school with a phone call to Mom and dad.
Not to mention the student being sent to see “Coach” who had a paddle with holes in it, while the phone call was being made.
I used to use folded paper clips as the projetile. Stings like hell and leaves a mark.
You won’t think it’s so funny when these gustapo type NAZI Obama voters come for your guns and put you in a re-education camp.
They’re just learning how to beat the system with the kids.
I remember “coach”, as well as the assistant principal. Punishment was swift and simple, didn’t involve lawyers, journalist or cops.
These days spit wads would have you in federal prison for biological warfare if you were sick.
Back in the “olden” days I was trying to get a spit wad to stick to a blackboard while the nun had her back to the class. She did a quick turn on me (they had eyes in the back of their heads)and I caught her in the middle of her habit.
No calling the police at my school, hell it would have been a blessing. Got the crap kicked out of me on the spot by one angry penguin.
Ruler, heavy rubber band (or multiple regular ones braided) and a pencil. A ruler even has a built-in channel to guide the projectile. We built some admittedly pretty dangerous devices in class.
We did the same thing only we used halved paper clips.
That would be a death penalty offence today. On second thought the weenies today don’t use the death penalty so I would be OK.
So you invented that. I always wondered who invented it. That was pretty popular when I was a kid. (Younger kid than I am now) (Growing old is mandatory-Growing up is optional)
Yep the majority of the boomers were focused on themselves and ignoring what they the leftists were doing to our country.
Wooden match, head removed, needle at one end and tiny cross fins in the other. They’d stick in the ceiling every time and have to remove with a broom.
I remember the spitball cannons. But I’m afraid to say anymore. The Jack booted Government thugs might try to take my diploma away retroactively. (just to be safe that was sarcasm} It’s a sad day when the common folk has to fear the government and their thug agencies more than terrorists. That being said, the terrorists have got what they wanted.
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