Article here: Police, lawyer release statements on student's alleged dinosaur killing
I, for one, am outraged – if stegosauruses are outlawed, only outlaws will have stegosauruses! :mad:
It doesn’t sound to me like the dinosaur was the issue here.
16 year olds go hunting quite often. Rural schools here even close 1 day to allow the high school students and their teachers to deer hunt.
Owning a gun isn’t a big deal. Even if you want to hunt dinosaurs.
I’m surprised a teacher in South Carolina isn’t familiar with the culture of hunting. Calling the cops over a creative writing assignment? The teacher was alarmed by a dinosaur hunt? Thats crazy.
This is the sequence I’m getting from the story:
Boy writes assignment containing the words “gun” and “taking care of the business.” Not in the same sentence I don’t think.
School contacts police who search the kid’s locker and book bag but find no gun.
School questions kid about the words and be becomes ‘very irate.’
Kid continues to be disruptive and is placed in handcuffs by police, who are there because of the word ‘gun.’
Sounds to me like the school was a bit heavy handed calling the police and the kid didn’t take well to being treated like a criminal, so he acted like an irritated teenager. A lot depends on how irate and disruptive he was. I’m giving the school a D, the kid and the police a C- and the reporter a D-, in red ink.
the kid should state that the story could only be taken as unbelievable fantasy because Spielberg shot the last one decades ago.
Boom! Boom! Acka lacka lacka boom!
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(I’ve broken the link since, although I wouldn’t consider it NSFW as we would normally think, some of the dancers are wearing rather brief outfits.
So… where did “threatening his school with a dinosaur” come from?
Perhaps he was trying to start a food fight?
Maybe it was Harry Dresden, age 16…
What kind of ammo do you use to take out a Stegosaurus?
If I saw a dinosaur using a gun, I’d kill it too.
So this is pretty much like the other recent freak-out over the girl who was kicked out of school for saying “bless you”. Which in reality was she walked out of school screaming about her Christian right to religious expression and only received detention for that.
Perhaps the OP is in journalism school and is taking a class in Misleading Headlines 101.
I shot a dinosaur in my pajamas.
How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know.
My first thought was of the story “The Boy Who Cried Dinosaur” from My Brother Was An Only Child by Jack Douglas.
Yeah, that’s kind of what I’m getting. A teacher saw him say something about buying a gun to take care of business–language that, to my knowledge, is not normal hunter language–and got concerned enough to call the police. Y’know, if I taught high school and saw that, I might be that concerned, too. It was a misunderstanding; confronted with the misunderstanding, instead of going, “Woah, woah! Sorry, that was fiction, I was talking about a dinosaur!” the boy “became very disruptive.”
At that point, I’m not sure that the arrest was fair, because I don’t know what “very disruptive” means. If it meant he was cussing out the cops and his teacher, then absolutely that’s a bogus arrest: there’s no reason why the school couldn’t handle that internally. If it meant he was knocking over desks and threatening to rape his stupid teacher, then that’s more of a criminal matter.
But the dinosaur thing is a red herring.
Don’t you mean a red Coelacanth?
Clever girl.
I saw what you did there.
So the hairstyle that looks like his mom put a colander on his head and trimmed around it— I guess that’s what the kids are wearing these days?