Boy Suspended for Pointing Finger Like Gun

Newser ^ | 3/4/14 | Kate Seamons

[Impala64ssa]

America's kids have been suspended for pretending that pencils were guns, but an Ohio school may have topped that. A 10-year-old student at a Columbus elementary school was handed a three-day suspension for making a finger gun and pretending to shoot a classmate. The suspension letter more formally referred to his weapon as a "level 2 lookalike firearm," reports the Columbus Dispatch. Devonshire Alternative Elementary School's principal says students have been frequently told not to play pretend gun games, with a district rep saying kids were warned consequences would follow.

Those consequences hit hard last week for fifth-grader Nathan Entingh, who says he was "just playing around"; the rep said Nathan pretended to shoot another student "kind of execution style" in the head. And the "victim" didn't even see the mock execution, which was instead spotted by a teacher. Nathan's dad seems dumbfounded: "It would even make more sense maybe if he brought a plastic gun that looked like a real gun or something, but it was his finger." (Almost exactly a year ago, a Georgia teacher was suspended over a finger gun of his own.)

[Dead Corpse]

Um... Body order?

[null and void]

Nothing a little formaldehyde wouldn’t fix...

[Dead Corpse]

Onions, garlic, and beef.

At least, according to my Wife. I apparently smell like a roast.

Oddly, I’m ok with this.

[Monkey Face]

I sure hope you get Piper back today. She’s probably getting nervous, now.

[TheOldLady]

Including a couple of Adafruit neopixel ring mounts for a set of Arduino goggles I’m doing.

Huh?

Halloween costume. Digitigrade stilts, led eyes, voice changer, 10-12 yards of black fabric, and an old farm scythe.

Pictures! Pretty please with ice cream on it? And a big smile?

[Monkey Face]

LOL! Nomnomnom!

[Dead Corpse]

Arduino is an open source programmable micro controller. Think tiny computer you can program basic input/output stuff on. Adafruit is a company that makes toys to go along with it. Like condenser mics, led arrays, wifi card, etc...

https://www.adafruit.com/products/1463

I was going to slave the rings to a throat mic. Part of the signal will be used to vary the intensity of the light. Part of it out to a speaker for a voice changer circuit.

For the stilts...

http://www.instructables.com/id/Werewolf-Stilts-digitigrade-legs/

Have them about half way done. Just need some aluminum for the "bones".

Should be fun.

[Dead Corpse]

Hey now... this is a family show... ;-)

[TheOldLady]

OMGoodness! That all sounds so totally cool! Please, please, post pictures.
We should be home from the Texas Cowboy Memorial Shoot by then.

Or you could even make a YouTube video. It would be nice to hear your voice
through the voice changer as well. Jokey voice could be very high and squeaky
too, just before you switch to the James Earl Jones version.

You’re going to have so much fun with that!

[Tax-chick]

I hope someone finds her and calls us before Anoreth leaves on Sunday. Otherwise, if she is found, she’ll be living here for a while.

[Darksheare]

We do have a thread.
I haven’t moved us yet.
I feel pretty beat and crappy from last weekend still

[Tax-chick]

No rush. I feel pretty beat myself.

[Darksheare]

Well, bunch of us got sick on Saturday last week.
Still don’t feel 100% yet.

[Tax-chick]

You should sleep and stuff.

[Darksheare]

Can’t.
At work.

[NicknamedBob]

"Well, bunch of us got sick on Saturday last week.
Still don’t feel 100% yet."

I don't believe in getting sick.
I think it's unhealthy.

.

.

(I never get tired of that one!)

[NoCmpromiz]

I feel pretty beat and crappy from last weekend still

You should have some tacos...

[null and void]

It is finished...

[NicknamedBob]

Good work!

[NoCmpromiz]

Ta Da!!!

And now you can get some sleep? ;-)