But, what if he’s attacking me with raspberries?
WE’VE DONE RASPBERRIES!
And mangoes.
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.
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.
They used baby/midget cuffs. Then they shocked her with a tiny taser shaped like a Teletubby.
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.
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.
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.
He then arrested Rose Jackson for naming her daughter “Porsche.” Talk about “extremely unfortunate!”
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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?
[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]
They misspelled Portia. Beautiful Shakespearean name.
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.
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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
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?
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.
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
Aldebaran, we’re not all like that. Just like not everyone in the Middle East is trying to blow each other up.
Never read much about the histories of, say, China, Spain, England, have you?