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Police arrest 11-year-old over 'inappropriate' stick figure drawing
kdvr.com ^ | 2/21/11 | Julie Hayden

Posted on 02/22/2011 6:28:28 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

ARVADA, Colo. -- An 11-year-old Arvada boy was arrested and hauled away in handcuffs for drawing stick figures in school, something his therapist told him to do...

The school was aware that the boy was in treatment, determined he was not a threat, notified his parents and sent him back to class. His mother, “Jane” was shocked when Arvada Police showed up at their home later that night.

She says she told her son to cooperate and tell the truth, but was horrified when they told her they were arresting him and then handcuffed him and hauled him away in a patrol car.

(Excerpt) Read more at kdvr.com ...


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To: ccmay

They’d all be in the lockup.


101 posted on 02/22/2011 8:30:30 AM PST by Carley (WISCONSIN STREET NO DIFFERENT THAN THE ARAB STREET. UGLY AND VIOLENT)
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102 posted on 02/22/2011 8:33:33 AM PST by Scythian
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To: HiTech RedNeck
He is not advising being a deaf mute.

But when a Police officer asks “Do you know how fast you were going?” you are under no obligation to confess to a crime.

Can you figure that out?

ACLU? Why, because recognizing the rights of our Constitution and the limited power of the government is, according to your mixed up thinking, the purview of the left?

Dream on redneck.

103 posted on 02/22/2011 8:36:04 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: SeeSac
Nothing sinister. Don't go jumping to conclusions.

That's. Why. I. Asked.
104 posted on 02/22/2011 8:44:09 AM PST by beezdotcom
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To: Jack Hydrazine

What was even stupider is that I did it a second time, this time during the day and heading for a different road. I had the tail of the car pointed at the garage when it was treated, so that I would not have to back through the smoke. I came back and a neighbor was standing there in the driveway with our garden hose in his hand and like... “where’s the fire? where’s the fire? I saw your garage full of smoke and thought it was on fire!” The car had filled the garage with smoke as I had beat a hasty exit. The neighbor wasn’t too amused even after I told him what had happened. Oh, this was the same neighbor whose chicken got loose and decided to roost in our garage one day, to the great curiosity of our cat. And whose goat got into another neighbor’s yard. But that really is a story for another day.


105 posted on 02/22/2011 8:47:44 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Boys were allowed to be boys and men were allowed to be men back then. Our Socialized country criminalizes masculine behavior now.

Yes, and often stigmatizes them with mental health referrals for utterly normal boy behavior. Once he's assigned to a therapist, a lot of people become sadly incapable of distinguishing between exuberance and homicidal tendencies.

Tragically, many of these boys have no fathers or other suitable male role models to guide them. Sometimes their fathers, too, have been psychologically castrated long since.

Damfools want to alter males, they want to alter human nature. They're the true criminals here.

To those who say, "Don't talk to police," I'd suggest they add: "Don't talk to mental health professionals."

106 posted on 02/22/2011 8:48:29 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (BYOST -- bring your own sark tag. Thank you.)
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To: allmendream

When some fast talking nerd starts out his presentation with some scare statements, which others later try to convince me really weren’t meant at face value, I wave the whole thing off. Too much drama in my life, I don’t need any more thank you very much.

As for ACLU they are screaming liberals. Get a vetting from a conservative attorney who says everything was A-OK except for the opening scare statements, and maybe I’d take a second look.

And I wasn’t born a moron. If an occifer ever began barking up the “you might be guilty of some really big thing” tree, I’d tell him I can’t talk about that subject or anything else but my lawyer can, as soon as I can get him to show up. But I won’t be an asshole to a deputy who seems to be on a legitimate mission. Or keep it to myself if I see something suspicious in the neighborhood.


107 posted on 02/22/2011 8:55:01 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
As for ACLU they are screaming liberals.

Some are liberals but their base is communist.

108 posted on 02/22/2011 8:56:48 AM PST by SeeSac
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To: wintertime
CALL IT WHAT IT IS! CRUEL ABUSE!

Let's review. 11 year old boy gets dubious ADD diagnosis. Probably getting mind-altering drugs. Visiting "therapist" who gets $$$ for treating ADD. Now, he does what he's told and is thrown in JAIL. This kid is being abused on his BEST days, IMHO.

If I had kids, I'd rather they work in an adult bookstore than ever set foot in any school.

109 posted on 02/22/2011 9:01:59 AM PST by Forgotten Amendments (I'd rather be Plaxico Burress than Sean Taylor)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

The exception (usually) in this thing about therapists, are devout mainstream Christian doctors (Catholic or evangelical) whose practice is faith based. They know what’s normal for boys, and for girls, and probably seen it all. Occasionally you’ll still get one with smoke blown... well I won’t go there.

This whole stupid debacle in Arvada is probably going to end up with an armada (hey it rhymes) of police with egg on their faces and some sort of settlement with the officials involved, much more than what the family expended.


110 posted on 02/22/2011 9:05:56 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
How about the “scare statement” by Justice Jackson of the Supreme Court? He just another “fast talking nerd” to you as well?

Too much drama to actually learn anything?

Nice that you were not born a moron. Few are, but many pick up habits in their life that will ensure that they don't actually learn much - and you seem to have availed yourself of those habits.

If you don't like the “nerd” in the first talk, watch the Police Officer confirmation in the follow up talk.

You might actually learn something, if you are not fundamentally opposed to learning something from someone unless you first like their personality and presentation style.

111 posted on 02/22/2011 9:07:22 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
What kind of cop would handcuff an 11 year old boy? For anything short of murder? wintertime is right - this is nothing short of sadistic.
112 posted on 02/22/2011 9:09:53 AM PST by Forgotten Amendments (I'd rather be Plaxico Burress than Sean Taylor)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Did the Carbout work?


113 posted on 02/22/2011 9:12:08 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: allmendream

If it begins with a turd, I go away until I encounter something from a different source that does not begin with a turd. I do not sit at the same bodily orifice, watching it and hoping that the next turd will be a $100 gold piece.


114 posted on 02/22/2011 9:14:00 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

Some loser who had probably watched his own scare drama — from a jackboot thug perspective.

It will probably suck to be him, down the road a bit.


115 posted on 02/22/2011 9:15:34 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Created lots of cool grey smoke from the tail pipe (no catalytic converter to worry about then). Alas no discernible change in the engine knock. Ended up trading the old beast in on a Vega wagon, got $400 for it.


116 posted on 02/22/2011 9:18:20 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: allmendream
No need to have facts and experience and legal arguments impinge upon your opinion!

You're wasting your time.

117 posted on 02/22/2011 9:23:05 AM PST by zeugma (Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Ah yes, you didn't like the first 30 seconds of the man's presentation - it rubbed you the wrong way - so now you insist upon having an hours long conversation about something you haven't watched and have no intention of watching.

You think he is a “worm” and “turd”, so you dismiss his argument and your need to actually listen to the argument.

Ignorance is strength!

“I never learned anything from someone who agreed with me” Mark Twain.

118 posted on 02/22/2011 9:24:35 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: zeugma

I have noticed!


119 posted on 02/22/2011 9:25:12 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

I’m nominating that for Post of the Month!


120 posted on 02/22/2011 9:28:03 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (BYOST -- bring your own sark tag. Thank you.)
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