Student Arrested For Using Phone App To 'Shoot' Classmates 706
New submitter Lord_Breetai sends word that a Louisiana high school student has been arrested for using a mobile app to simulate shooting his classmates. The app overlays an FPS-style gun and UI over a real background seen through the device's camera. The student tried it out and then unwisely posted a video of it on YouTube. Another student's parent saw the video and reported it to authorities. Major Wolfe of the local police said, "You can't ignore it. We don't know at what time that game becomes reality. He said it was a result of him being frustrated and tired of being bullied. He said that he had no intentions of hurting anybody. We have to take all threats seriously and we have no way of knowing that without investigating and getting to the bottom of it. With all the school shooting we've had in the United States, it's just not a very good game to be playing at this time." The boy is now facing criminal charges for terrorizing and interference of the operation of a school.
Really? (Score:5, Funny)
If they'd discovered his Whip-App, he would have been accused of racism too.
Not to mention the beer app, since he's under 21.
Re:Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
This is fucking unreal. Thought crime to the fucking max man.
Re:Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
when I was a kid nobody would have thought twice about this. now this kid is in jail. he's the one that was bullied. i was bullied a lot in grade school, so I fully understand his frustrations and anger. next the "crushing his head" skit will be banned. our future is fucking fucked.
Re:Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
The problem is clear - those people in authority in your country - they are incapable of a proportionate response - their judgment is terrible; faulty; bordering on the insane: they are unfit to govern, lacking basic reason abilities and judgment. There seems to be no facility or investment in the concept of "is this fair?".
You have an anemy within your country and it is the ignorant, incompetent aresholes who are running it; they are unfit to weild the power they have been given.
Re:Really? (Score:4, Insightful)
Hah, that's the first thing I thought of when reading this.
"I'm crushing your head, I'm crushing you head!!"
"A 17 year old was arrested today for allegedly threatening to murder a classmate with his thumb and index finger. Police and school authorities are blaming a Canadian terrorist group for encouraging the act".
Re:Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes! We should punish children for having an imagination that does not conform to the acceptably Politically Correct norm! If teachers discover such a Politically Incorrect imagination exists and they do not report the child for reprogramming then the teacher should be punished severely! After they make the standardized Politically Correct apology sans visible bruises and contusions of course.
Re:Really? (Score:5, Interesting)
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I remember a video game in an arcade back years ago that involved driving a car around doing different point scoring things. If you ran over pedestrians it deducted points and they screamed pitifully. I really liked hearing them scream so I was steadily running them down. They actually kicked me out of the arcade back then. Nowadays I'd have served jail time.
Re:Really? (Score:4, Insightful)
No you wouldn't. No one's been arrested for Grand Theft Auto (the video game).
The difference here is posting a video on YouTube of a simulation of shooting real specifically identifiable children. It'd have been just as arrest worthy if it'd been done with video effects tools rather than as a game.
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I kept killing the pedestrians and when the ambulance showed up I'd run over the EMT's. It was the freaky sounding screams that made me do it. I loved hearing it. I kept shoving quarters in and there were about a dozen kids watching me and laughing their asses off. I think that might have been the clincher. It was morbid but fun.
Re:Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
So the kid was bullied, and he fantasized about getting even. I'd bet the majority of kids who get bullied (and there are a LOT of them) do the same thing (they just don't post it on Youtube, which was pretty stupid). Still, how does that make the former (which involved actual aggression) "kids will be kids" and the latter (purely imagination) a serious criminal act?!
Re:Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
If you punish and take away people's means of non-violent stress relief, do not be surprised when they snap and resort to violent means.
Re:Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
You have obviously never indulged in flights of fancy or other thought experiments that are fun to explore but not fun to live. To take this stupid analogy further, let's explore...
Playing World of Warcraft is rehearsal for killing the hordes of orcs.
Playing Payday 2 is rehearsal for robbing banks and shooting cops.
Playing Left 4 Dead 2 is rehearsal for the next Zombie Apocalypse, because you know it's coming.
My child had a princess party once. Surely, she's royalty, or soon to be married into it.
Get a grip, man. Sometimes playing a game is just a game. Crimes need to be based on real actions and real intentions rather than what one would indulge in for a game. Too many games would be unacceptable real world behavior, and yet we have them because it's fun to play them when there are no lasting penalties for those kinds of actions.
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This is the same sort of mentality that got actors and writers arrested or blacklisted for being a "threat to America" or homosexuals arrested or harassed for being "a threat to the children". The way you think is not and should never be a crime. In some cases it may warrant assistance but not prison.
Re:Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
"they're boring leeches on society"
Teachers? Really. Of all the people in the world that could be called this (drug dealers, arms merchants, derivatives traders, merchant bankers, marketing consultants) it is a very sad state of affairs when people think this. There are lots of children in this world crying out for education.
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It really is sad because it's not the profession itself, it's how it's done (in the US at least).
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Yeah, god forbid someone would teach kids to read and write. Sure sounds like a leech to me.
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Re:Really? (Score:5, Informative)
Although I think there were significantly less of these back in the day.
Assume no longer [wikipedia.org]. Looks like the decade from 1900-1910 had the most shootings, but it seems massacres were rarer.
Re:Really? (Score:5, Informative)
http://reason.com/blog/2012/12/17/are-mass-shootings-becoming-more-common [reason.com]
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So give the kid a couple hours of counseling after which it will be obvious if he was trying to kill people or just playing with his phone. Arresting him and threatening criminal charges for DOING NOTHING WRONG already seems more criminal to me than ignoring him.
This (Score:3)
The real problem in our cultures is the total abdication of responsibility by the authorities for the criminal violence perpetrated daily in our educational institutions.
Every child learns that they can either get away with committing acts of violence against others or that society will tie itself in knots to avoid protecting them from criminal violence.
Is it any wonder the victims of violence take the law into their own hands when our most important laws are actively ignored by those who ought to be enforc
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And if you defend yourself in school, you're punished to the same extent an aggressor is.
Re:This (Score:4, Interesting)
Surely a school authority's responsibility is to punish transgressors and protect victims?
In a prestigious private school, I reported my bullies, and I was sentenced to detention (my report was considered a confession) and the bullies (it was a group) all agreed that nobody in the group did anything, so without proof, they were let off without even a warning. They got worse after that.
The problem isn't the government or unions, it's the parents and schools. A very very conservative private school was worse than when I was at public school, so it's not a union or liberal/conservative thing.
St. Mark's School of Texas, if anyone's wondering.
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I don't know how long ago you deal with a bully that way, but these days you might be arrested and jailed for assault for intentionally giving someone a concussion in school.
He hit me first, sort of teasingly, the way bullies start, measuring you to see if you'll take it or tell or whatever. So I knocked him down hard, and his head took a bad bounce on the floor.
Also, maybe nobody messed with you, but did you lose out on other relationships that you will never know about based on people's perceptions of you? (Maybe not in many schools, but consider what the implications would be in the workplace...)
In the workplace? I'd quit, sue, and retire. Bullying is either sexual harassment or assault. Either taking place in a workplace is not tolerated one bit. But both are allowed, and in fact encouraged, in school.
Nothing works for every situation. For example, Izzy Kalman says his approach requires the "bully" to be reasonable emotionally stable -- which is almost always the case, but not 100% of the time.
I'm curious why you are supporting that approach so much. I've been bullied, and the approach you advocat
Re:Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
and let me add....he's 15. a minor. charges? wtf is this country coming to that even kids are now criminals?! WTF AMERICA??
Age (Score:3)
While i disagree with the topic being a crime, being underage does not somehow magically exclude you from being a criminal. Criminal behavior has no boundaries.
Re:Wait, wait! (Score:5, Informative)
At the very least, the posting of the video constitutes a death threat, which demands justice.
No it does not constitute a death threat. A death threat is, "I'm going to kill you now, AC". A video game is just a video game now matter what the pixels may or may not look like.
Let me say that again. AC, I am going to murder you sometime very soon. I own a gun. An assault rifle. I am going to kill you with it. This IS going to happen. So you might want to prepare a will or something. Perhaps flee whatever country you live in as well. Just to be safe.
The only problem is that I have no idea who you are and no way to find out and I don't actually own a gun. Do you see why threats are required to be credible and why the person making the threat is expected to have some realistic means of carrying it out?
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I'm thinking that posting the thing was a bad idea. Maybe some kind of warning was defintely in order. Talk to him and explain that his response to the bullying was in it's own way just as bad. Jail? You're fucking crazy. Talk about over reaction. What the hell ever happened to common sense. I remember when I was a kid and we did bad stuff my Dad told me where I went wrong and backed it up with a belt. Nowadays this is called child abuse and instead we throw them in jail or trank them on drugs. Big
Re:Really? (Score:4, Insightful)
The USA looks more and more like the definition of hell as the memory of the cold war fades. These days there is very little to choose between the all out capitalism of gangster run Russia and industrial prison America. Maybe it was always so and we who believed in the free world were fools.
no violence (Score:3)
I blame the complete lack of tolerance for violence in schools. Ask someone who graduated in the last ten years about the fights they got into at school. Now ask someone 20 or even just 10 years older than that the same question. It was a relatively rapid change where occasional fights were the norm, to being unthinkable. I don't know if it was us applying rules that made sense for schools where kids brought shivs, to schools that didn't have anything more than normal scuffles, or just the general risk
Re:Really? (Score:4, Interesting)
Unfortunately, a teacher also saw this harmless joke. The kid was arrested and expelled from the entire school district.
Re:Will be?? (Score:5, Insightful)
Sense of entitlement? You mean expecting to be able to find a living wage job and have college largely paid for by the government?
They don't expect 6 figures and to run the company in 2 years, they expect to be able to find a living wage job. Unfortunately because of cheapskates like you, for a lot of them making 6 figures is what it's going to take to pay off college and buy a house in a reasonable period of time.
It's always interesting how arrogant old people like to ignore the fact that when they were young, college was heavily subsidized and we hadn't figured out that it was possible to send jobs overseas rather than offering them up to the people at the bottom. What's more, there was little competition from other countries and the rich didn't expect to get all the profits of other people's work.
They're fucked alright, but mostly because of people like you got yours and to hell with anybody else.
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In 1950 [fiftiesweb.com], the average home cost $14,500, the average income was $3,216. So the average home cost 4.5 years worth of income.
In 2012 the average income was $51,000, the average home was $211,000. Or 4.1 years worth of inc
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That's not arrogant that's somebody that lives in the US and knows how things work. In order to get a decent job they expect you to have 3-5 years of experience doing the job and that's for entry level positions. I highly doubt that you had to put up with that bullshit when you were entering the workforce.
Around here $30k a year would barely cover the rent along with the bare necessities. The average rent around here comes out to over $12k a year. Want a car? You're looking at an additional $6k or so a year
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It also doesn't say if he was actually charged in the article, just that he was arrested.
Being arrested requires being charged. Thats how it works.
Re:Really? (Score:5, Interesting)
The root of the problem is that crime rates have fallen dramatically over the last two decades, while the number of police officers has not. The cops don't have enough real crime to deal with, so they fill the vacuum with make believe crime instead. The solution is to either reduce the number of police, or to refocus them on community policing and crime reduction rather than "making arrests".
Re:Really? (Score:5, Informative)
So has the rate of violent crime in schools:
http://curry.virginia.edu/research/projects/violence-in-schools/school-violence-myths [virginia.edu]
Re:Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
Zero Tolerance: A regulatory philosophy that administrators hide behind to avoid having to make decisions and subsequently defend those decisions.
Re:Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
Well can you blame them. What is the first thing that happens when kid does something wrong.
"WHY DIDN'T ANYONE SEE THESE CLEAR WARNING SIGNS!" This kid played first person shooters, read gun magazines, and didn't get along with the popular kids! Just like millions of other people....
Just like in the old days they used to say, "no one ever got fired for buying IBM". No school administrator ever got in trouble for putting a kid in jail as a potential danger. Man I am glad they didn't have first person shooters when I was in school. I know for a fact that at least one of my friends if not myself would have made a map of the school. Of course that person and everyone that played that map would go to jail for planning a terrorist attack.
And the parents will not stop it because it is always better to throw another persons kid in jail to protect your own.
Re:Really? (Score:4, Insightful)
Well can you blame them. What is the first thing that happens when kid does something wrong.
"WHY DIDN'T ANYONE SEE THESE CLEAR WARNING SIGNS!"
It may be a crazy idea, but why not try talking to the (troubled) kid instead of fucking arresting him?
Jesus Christ.
Re: Really? (Score:3)
Because that would real work from the officers. "Best" to just judge everybody us vs them and create division instead of unity.
To Serve And Protect has been prevented to Judge and Extort :(
Re:Really? (Score:4, Interesting)
The solution is to either reduce the number of police, or to refocus them on community policing and crime reduction rather than "making arrests".
Of course... I would suggest concentrating the surplus officers in the higher crime areas, and have a higher density of patrols in those areas, wherever those happen to be statistically speaking; and promoting community policing.
Also.... some of those officers could be reassigned from policing the streets to Internal policing; that is monitoring their colleagues for possible wrongdoing; or standing by to assist colleagues, BUT doing other useful work for the people in the meantime --- other useful work such as gathering field data on the streets for research or government planning purposes; outreach programs -- just being present somewhere in uniform or with their car to be "visible" as a friendly reminder to the public to follow the law; in various places, such as around or visiting bars; not to make arrests, but to go around reminding potential patrons about the law; just either through friendly conversation, or by standing about in a place visible to as many people as possible.
They can also put surplus officers on a task of using their brain to think outside the box, and investigate the possible existence of more complicated criminal schemes; such as the fraud involved in Banks misstating the value of their mortgage bonds and credit default swaps leading up to the housing crisis.
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You cannot compare America to 1st world countries. That is not a fair metric.
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Have you been living under a rock or something? I mean just recently with the dorner case in California, the cops opened fired on a pickup truck who's only crime was being a similar color as the one dorner was thought to be in and delivering newspapers without their headlights on. That same day, another pickup truck was open fired on for doing nothing but going right for sirens and lights.
Cops are scared little pussies in some cases and shoot to stop from pissing themselves. No guns being drawn or pointed o
Re:Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
Ya lets not help the kid socially integrate into his surroundings. Press criminal charges for his thoughts. They should be grateful they got an actual clue to a problem rather then trying to suppress his attempts to deal with his situation and make his day more bearable.
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Paintball guns fall under the protection of the 2nd Amendment, so they're OK. But visual representations of guns? Those are dangerous and should be reported.
what is happening to this country (Score:5, Insightful)
Zero tolerance, complete risk avoidance, and neopuritanism while half the country cares more about what happens after you die than the encroaching totalitarianism.
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Re: what is happening to this country (Score:3)
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More than 50% of Americans have tried marijuana with no ill effects, yet most of them now are for banning it. As if they could handle it, but believe nobody else can. It's a form of insanity.
Oh good (Score:4, Insightful)
He said it was a result of him being frustrated and tired of being bullied.
and what a better way to deal with this than let the police and justice system bully him instead
YADOUS (Score:2)
Yet another display of unbeleivable stupidity. Though tasteless the app be , it's still a stupid game and frankly .. haven't we all something better to do than waste time on this total waste of time article ? Cops and school are bunch of idiots and so is the guy holding the cam .. moving right along folks :D
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Re:YADOUS (Score:5, Insightful)
teabag = rape? (Score:3)
What... (Score:5, Insightful)
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Bullying isn't something that schools care about. And neither is child abuse. In order to get the schools to care, you pretty much have to be beating the kids in front of the principal. It gets rather ridiculous as simply just seeing a bunch of belt shaped welts on a kid isn't enough to forward things for investigation, because that could just be corporal punishment. Well, hitting a kid with a belt isn't punishment, and leaving marks is definitely not punishment.
As long as schools aren't held accountable fo
SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid (Score:5, Insightful)
We have to take all threats seriously [...]
Of course you have to but no, an app is not a threat.
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We have to take all threats seriously [...]
Of course you have to but no, an app is not a threat.
Of course not. I think that what got him in trouble was "... unwisely posted a video of it on YouTube".
The video alone, without the app, could be seen as a threat.
Of course, after some some clarification, things should not have escalated as they did.
Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid (Score:4, Informative)
It is unfortunate that we live in a society where posting a game video on youtube is seen as "unwise".
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Ya, they must take it seriously, the kid should be down at the firing range with an AK47 taking it out on a target with a human silhouette.
Idiots (Score:2)
With all the school shooting we've had in the United States, it's just not a very good game to be playing at this time
Yeah, except that the app itself tells the users "not to use real guns in the real world". I think it's actually a pretty good thing to play with at this time, lest the people forget.
Guns are bad (Score:3, Insightful)
Stop with the stupid "right to bear arms" crap and stuff like this will not bother anyone. It's just a game on a display.
And I'd say that 99% of the school shootings are due to people being harassed and bullied by groups, so teaching kids to be better persons and tolerate others would do a much better job than trying to catch oppressed people in the last stage of "I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do to get out of this situation anymore".
Re:Guns are bad (Score:5, Informative)
Stop with the stupid "right to bear arms" crap and stuff like this will not bother anyone.
Buh? And also, buh? Nobody is suggesting that kids have the right to take actual firearms to school, so how on earth did you get from there to here?
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The problem is there is to much enforcement. It used to be that if someone was bullying you at some point you go fed up with it and just took a swing at them. You did not even have to win the fight, after that the other guy would at least get their may be unwanted negative consequences to picking on you all the time.
Schools used to let this stuff happen a little bit in elementary and middle school grades; where students were unlikely to do serious or permanent injury to each other. This way by the time t
Solidarity (Score:5, Insightful)
I think all his classmates should download the app, make similar videos and upload them to youtube just to show how ridiculous this is. They can't arrest them all.
The guy is facing CRIMINAL CHARGES for fucks sake!
Re:Solidarity (Score:5, Insightful)
The only people that should be facing criminal charges are the school admins and police that were involved. The kid is 15. What moron make an interfering with a school a criminal law??? It's the inmates responsibility to attempt escape, POW 101 :)
Re:Solidarity (Score:5, Interesting)
CRIMINAL CHARGES
I'm wondering exactly what law he broke... Really, he had no weapon - just a phone. The next thing you'll hear about is some kid being arrested because he gave a dirty look at someone, because surely he was "thinking" of killing somebody.
I hope a false arrest charge is brought against those responsible for this waste of public resources.
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Construction helmet rules anyone? Both are there for a good reason and shouldn't be bundled in with an over reaction to a game.
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Americans in general seem completely oblivious to their over-use of imprisonment.
"We have to take all threats seriously" (Score:5, Insightful)
No you don't. You should use your brain first.
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look at it from the police perspective. What if they do nothing. What if next year this kid really does do something? Who do you think will get the blame? The police will. So, they act, even though they know it is complete nonsense. Because they know that if this kid does anything down the line, they will be a scape goat for ignoring the obvious "warning signs".
Crap I know, but that is how it could go down.
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By that same reasoning I guess they had better arrest everyone who plays violent video games. It's the only way to be sure.
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It sounds like you cannot have a serious discussion period. This kid made a little video game. That is not against the law no matter what the characters look like in it. The cop in this case is a dangerous thug and a threat to us all and our freedoms. He belongs in prison or at the very least he should lose his job. I don't think we want to rely on the judgement of some mentally retarded cop as to whether or not people get arrested for thoughtcrime.
Re:"We have to take all threats seriously" (Score:4, Informative)
look at it from the police perspective. What if they do nothing. What if next year this kid really does do something? Who do you think will get the blame? The police will. So, they act, even though they know it is complete nonsense. Because they know that if this kid does anything down the line, they will be a scape goat for ignoring the obvious "warning signs".
Crap I know, but that is how it could go down.
They should arrest him if he actually does something illegal. You don't arrest people because of "warning signs."
Re:"We have to take all threats seriously" (Score:5, Informative)
Except there was no incident. No one was harmed and there was no intention to harm. He was playing an augmented reality game, that was all.
App to simulate arresting him? (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't there an app so simulate arresting him? That sounds like it would have been more appropriate.
Knee jerk reaction (Score:2)
It's a damned shame his life has to be ruined for something so stupid. Scare him, maybe. Charge him, definitely not.
Unsure of reality? (Score:5, Interesting)
Are you unable to discern when computer games have become reality?
Here's some helpful signs for our boys in blue:
Scenario 1: It's quite dark, there are men wearing suits with bright flouro stripes. Jeff Bridges is there. COMPUTER GAME HAS BECOME REALITY.
Scenario 2: You like to play starfighter. You have just beaten the high score, and a man in a hat is inviting you to go for a ride in his car that can fly. YOUR GAME IS ABOUT TO BECOME REALITY.
Scenario 3: You are hacked into a computer. Is it calling itself joshua? Is it seemingly reluctant to play Thermonuclear War? YOUR GAME IS ABOUT TO BECOME REALITY.
Scenario 4: Your life doesn't resemble Scenarios 1 - 3? You life is not a computer game.
Sorry.
Play Again (Y/N)?
Pffff (Score:4, Interesting)
"The boy is charged with terrorizing and interference with the operation of a school."
What's next? Arresting pre-schoolers who point a finger and go 'Bang Bang!!" ???
Maybe if guns weren't so fucking easy to come by the US wouldn't have to arrest kids for being kids.
Fucking idiots.
Re:Pffff (Score:5, Informative)
What's next? Arresting pre-schoolers who point a finger and go 'Bang Bang!!" ???
What do you mean "next"? You missed that one?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/maryland-grader-suspended-pointing-finger-shape-gun/story?id=18123294 [go.com] (Warning: auto-video. Hit Mute first.)
terrorism? (Score:5, Informative)
who the fuck was harmed? no one. interfering with school ops? when? how?
The US has become a nation of fucking pussies. Thankfully it seems that a lot of under 25's are rejecting the fucked up views of their parents and grandparents. The late babyboom and near postboom generations have been a disaster in just about every way possible.
Re:terrorism? (Score:5, Insightful)
who the fuck was harmed? no one. interfering with school ops? when? how?
Indeed. Other than by the meddling actions of one parent, no one at the school would ever have known. No one was "terrorized" (other than this one student), the school was not interfered with. But NOW, we have an individual that know authority is capricious and unfair. Perhaps he will lash out...
What else do you expect? (Score:4, Insightful)
America is a country which values the right to have high capacity magazines for assault weapons over the freedom of speech.
It it more important to ensure the blind can carry a concealed firearm than it is to ensure the children of the country are properly educated.
It is more important to spend nearly 5% of the GDP on a military, not counting the illegal wars than to allow your fellow countrymen access to affordable health care.
That is the very definition of a morally corrupted system.
It is simply a fact. Most of the people simply do not care about what is going on in America as long as their personal situation is OK. As long as they can buy an iPhone 10s for 1$ on a 5 year contract.
There is only one possible outcome here. America has been on this road since the 70's. Some argue since the end of WW2. It is only now, as things have progressed so far that the visible signs are escalating.
I do not say that Americans are bad people, because I believe that they are, on the average "just folk". Just trying to get by. They are, unfortunately, a product of the system which produced them. That system, just didn't have their interests in mind.
So bullying (Score:3)
There is noting unwise about posting videos of a game on youtube. What was unwise was assuming the adults in the school - the people that are suppose to be educating these students, and who are basically raising them, since they are with them more waking hours than their parents - have half a brain between them.
I'm Crushing Your Head! (Score:5, Funny)
Imagine if he had been the kind of psychopath that would image -- and even trivialize -- crushing people's skulls [youtube.com].
Games and reality (Score:5, Funny)
We don't know at what time that game becomes reality.
That's a good question. To the end of answering it, I'd like to be the kid's defense attorney for this case, because I've played through all of the Ace Attorney games, and I'm looking forward to the new one coming out soon in English.
This proposal is a simple one. If I am not allowed to defend the kid in court based on my experience with law video games, then they can't use video games to call him a murderer, so the prosecution has no case on those grounds. If I am allowed to defend him just because I've played some law video games, then we are unlikely to be able to make a decent defense case (but these are criminal charges, so reasonable doubt is a thing).
If the kid can be a murderer because of a mobile game, then I should be able to be his attorney because of Phoenix Wright.
It's almost like they WANT more shootings. (Score:5, Insightful)
With all the school shooting we've had in the United States, it's just not a very good game to be playing at this time." The boy is now facing criminal charges for terrorizing and interference of the operation of a school.
So, instead of just counseling the lad, and maybe talking to teachers and investigating the bullying, we're not going to fix the situation, but make an example out of the kid for doing the equivalent of making a "gun" with his finger and saying "bang". In fact, the over-reaction by the school will just ensure that the very kind of people who actually DO shoot up schools will not go to the grownups for help for fear of being jailed as a terrorist for their thoughtcrimes.
Will you scared little fuckers actually do anything I want if I drum up threats of your woman and children being harmed? Of course you will. School Bus Drivers kill more kids in accidents than school shootings do. You Fucking morons are so easy to control. Keep the environment, make more examples to make the environment worse and thus gain more control through fear. We've got you to acclimate children to not walking home without supervision, despite child predator numbers being at an all time low, and acclimated to wearing RFID tags and getting retinal scans for no good reason.
1984's big brother is OK so long as he's "protecting" kids from harm, not oppressing adults? Proitp: Your indoctrination starts when you're yet young. The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Soon we'll have you implanting microchips in babies that ping a wireless network, so they don't get lost... And brining your kids up to be the model dystopian citizens. Fools.
A threat is a threat (Score:5, Interesting)
In other news (Score:5, Funny)
A 7 year old was arrested for terroristic actions after tossing an airplane across the classroom and it hit the wall, knocking a "teacher of the year" plaque slightly askew. The stunt reportedly tossed the airplane without any reaction from classmates. When one of the students relayed the story to her parents they decided to call the police to warn of the anti-social behavior. When asked, Police Chief Marny Logan said "We had to take it seriously, you never when he'll switch from paper airplanes to real ones. We can't teach kids that it is okay to fly aircraft in to buildings."
In other news: using chalk to draw in the street is found to increase the risk of future graffiti crime by 43%. Children who stick objects in their nose will one day use a straw and accidentally snort cocaine.
The school admins and police are insane (Score:4, Interesting)
actually.... (Score:3)
I'd like to see this go to trial and see if they can really get a conviction. It would be very cool if they fail and then get sued for damages and compensation.
Maybe do something about bullying? (Score:3)
Maybe address the cause of all the anger and frustration?
Re:Different perspective... (Score:5, Insightful)
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