That’s what they do now. They evaluate them, give them drugs, and send them home. A Colorado university student was arrested for an obvious dry, morbid joke about the massacre.
Student Arrested Over Va. Tech Remarks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1819529/posts
It was "obvious" to you, although you weren't there, but it was lost on the people who were actually present when he said what he said.
I'll trust the eyewitnesses' sense of his tone and intent over yours at this point in time.