# Running with scissors (changed title) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 13, 2004, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587 "2004-12-13T13:11:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587/41 "2004-12-14T05:37:36Z")
But, what if he’s attacking me with raspberries? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587/42 "2004-12-14T05:40:56Z")
> [@The Asbestos Mango](#): > > But, what if he’s attacking me with raspberries? WE’VE DONE RASPBERRIES! And mangoes. ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587/43 "2004-12-14T12:10:10Z")
> [@Antigen](#): > > But, even if “scissors” was on the list of school supplies, how idiotic is the mother to give her kid a giant pair of kitchen shears to bring to class? How can you possibly think that makes any sense? You gonna send her off with a yardstick as a ruler, too? Sometimes, I needed to use whatever scissors were around the house. Mom didn’t keep those little 1" rounded doo-hickies for her sewing, so I had to make do with 8" WCD (Weapons of Class Destruction). Just FYI, is all. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587/44 "2004-12-14T13:47:52Z")
> [@](#): > > **Antigen** said: > But, even if “scissors” was on the list of school supplies, how idiotic is the mother to give her kid a giant pair of kitchen shears to bring to class? How can you possibly think that makes any sense? You gonna send her off with a yardstick as a ruler, too? Those stupid little blunt ended safety scissors don’t do a good job of cutting anything for art class. What I wouldn’t have given for a good pair of scissors and an Exacto knife in fourth grade. ---
**Author:** ![davenportavenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587/45 "2004-12-14T13:54:43Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I want to know how they got the cuffs to fit a 4th grader with presumably narrow wrists. They used baby/midget cuffs. Then they shocked her with a tiny taser shaped like a Teletubby. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587/46 "2004-12-14T14:37:37Z")
> [@Earthworm Jim](#): > > Which is a pretty far cry from being cuffed & hauled down to the station, then suspended and/or expelled. Natch. When I was that age, the teacher told us to put away our yoyos one day. While I was putting mine away, it slipped from my hand and rolled across the floor. The teacher scolded me for playing with the yoyo when I was not supposed to. I protested that it had just slipped from my hand, but the teacher insisted that I was a liar, and was a miscreant troublemaker hell-bent on disruptive behavior. The yoyo was taken from me and not returned until the last day of school. I was so outraged at the injustice that I was going to sue the school, grow my hair long, blast Bob Dylan from a transistor radio, and streak. Revolution, man! It never would have occurred to me that I could have gone to jail for possessing required school supplies. My brain would have exploded, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587/47 "2004-12-14T17:40:04Z")
Ya know, when I was in elementary school and were doing an art project or whatever the school _supplied_ us with giant black painted scissors of doom. They did a crap job of cutting because they were about a kazillion years old and the little screw in the middle was loose, but I bet they would have been wicked awesome to stab with. Hell, you could have bludgeoned someone to death with those beasts. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587/48 "2004-12-14T18:05:51Z")
> [@Earthworm Jim](#): > > Sometimes, I needed to use whatever scissors were around the house. Mom didn’t keep those little 1" rounded doo-hickies for her sewing, so I had to make do with 8" WCD (Weapons of Class Destruction). Just FYI, is all. It occurs to me that the article didn’t say if the scissors were 8" overall, or if that was just the blade length. Also, we have some Giant Kitchen Shears of Doom around the house that have one blade rounded at the tip- the other blade comes just to the end but not beyond- so it wouldn’t be much good as a stabbing weapon. If these were the type of scissors our miscreant was packing, then the school was definitely being unreasonable. I also have a smallish sewing scissors with about a 4" blade length that, well, let’s just say you wouldn’t want to get on my bad side if you found me sewing the week before Aunt Flo’s monthly visit. Those things would be lethal if you just looked at someone hard while holding them. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587/49 "2004-12-14T18:50:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Johnson said he told Rose Jackson that the arrest of her daughter, Porsche Brown, was “extremely unfortunate” and apologized for “any trauma that her daughter experienced” on her way to the station. He then arrested Rose Jackson for naming her daughter “Porsche.” Talk about “extremely unfortunate!” ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587/50 "2004-12-14T19:43:58Z")
_reads link_ _blink_ _curses modern society, curls back up under the blankets granted, I’m already there, sick as a dog who’s about to be put down and cries_ Have I ever mentioned I grew up right outside Phiadelphia? Have I ever mentioned that while, yes, in some ways, Philly is a wonderful place, I will never, ever, ever willingly live there again? ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587/51 "2004-12-14T21:17:49Z")
[Gary Gulman] Scissors are considered ‘dangerous’, but then at the back of the room, they have that giant paper-cutter thing just sitting on a table. That thing is like a guillotine![/Gary Gulman] ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587/52 "2004-12-14T21:33:39Z")
> [@](#): > > **Eve** said: > He then arrested Rose Jackson for naming her daughter “Porsche.” Talk about “extremely unfortunate!” They misspelled Portia. Beautiful Shakespearean name. ---
**Author:** ![Aldebaran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Aldebaran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aldebaran)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587/53 "2004-12-14T21:50:25Z")
Looks like the US society gets crazier and war-like by the day. I suspect that this little girl was not Muslim, so I say: is that lucky for her. She could have been at Guatanamo and no parent would be informed about it for the rest of her Terrorist Life. Salaam. A ---
**Author:** ![Aldebaran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Aldebaran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aldebaran)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587/54 "2004-12-14T21:52:54Z")
Looks like the US society gets crazier and violent by the day, loosing every sense of normal perspective and ability for sane judgement. I suspect that this little girl was not Muslim, so I would say: is that something she should thank her luck for. She could have been at Guatanamo and no parent would be informed about it for the rest of her Terrorist Life. Salaam. A ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587/55 "2004-12-14T22:31:35Z")
Can someone explain something to me? Possession of scissors is not actually a _crime_, right? Whether you’re ten years old or not. It’s just against school rules (maybe) of this particular school So how the hell can the school call the police and _demand_ that they arrest one of their kids? For something that’s not a crime? I mean … they can _do_ that? This just blows my mind. What happens if the school has a rule saying “no extreme hairstyles” … could they call the cops and get them to haul a kid away for dyeing their hair purple? ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587/56 "2004-12-15T16:47:53Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > What happens if the school has a rule saying “no extreme hairstyles” … could they call the cops and get them to haul a kid away for dyeing their hair purple? Sure. So long as the school maintains the hairstyle is a “weapon” or “drug”, I’m sure the kid in question will be hauled off. [Read it & weep](http://www.rutherford.org/articles_db/legal_features.asp?article_id=71) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587/57 "2004-12-15T17:10:38Z")
> [@Aldebaran](#): > > Looks like the US society gets crazier and violent by the day, loosing every sense of normal perspective and ability for sane judgement. > > I suspect that this little girl was not Muslim, so I would say: is that something she should thank her luck for. She could have been at Guatanamo and no parent would be informed about it for the rest of her Terrorist Life. > > Salaam. A Good thing she wasn’t a rape victrim in sub-Saharan Africa, or a gay person in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan . . . Yep, the US is the only country in the world that ever violates any human rights. ---
**Author:** ![Aldebaran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Aldebaran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aldebaran)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587/58 "2004-12-15T22:36:54Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Good thing she wasn’t a rape victrim in sub-Saharan Africa, or a gay person in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan . . . Yep, the US is the only country in the world that ever violates any human rights. No. But the USA is the only country in the world that has the incredible idiocy to claim for itself arrogant titles like “the Leader of teh Free World” and “The beacon of Freedom”. All while the USA is the only country in the world that has the arrogance to claim it has to invade sovereign nation to “liberate” the citizens while murdering thousands of them, on top of that tortures them now and them when it suits the US Heros to have a few war trofee pictures and of on top of that claims the USA must teach other nations about “democracy” and “freedom”. For a starter. Salaam. A ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587/59 "2004-12-16T03:00:08Z")
**Aldebaran** , we’re not _all_ like that. Just like not everyone in the Middle East is trying to blow each other up. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587/60 "2004-12-16T14:44:22Z")
> [@Aldebaran](#): > > No. > But the USA is the only country in the world that has the incredible idiocy to claim for itself arrogant titles like “the Leader of teh Free World” and “The beacon of Freedom”. > All while the USA is the only country in the world that has the arrogance to claim it has to invade sovereign nation to “liberate” the citizens while murdering thousands of them, on top of that tortures them now and them when it suits the US Heros to have a few war trofee pictures and of on top of that claims the USA must teach other nations about “democracy” and “freedom”. > > For a starter. > > Salaam. A Never read much about the histories of, say, China, Spain, England, have you? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-with-scissors-changed-title/279587.md?page=4)