# Student charged for writing Zombie story. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 17, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395 "2008-10-17T16:27:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395/21 "2008-10-17T17:34:06Z")
Here’s a [a similar story from 1999](http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_/ai_58170593) about a kid who got into big trouble for writing a scary story (included in the link, replete with misspellings and bad punctuation). ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395/22 "2008-10-17T17:34:44Z")
So not only do we need George Orwell, but H.G. Wells too. Go back three years … present most of the comments here … all is good. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395/23 "2008-10-17T17:40:41Z")
I was once arrested for trying to smuggle books into Kentucky. Happily I was let off on a technicality…no one could prove they were books. (shamelessly stolen from Steven Wright) -XT ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395/24 "2008-10-17T17:49:42Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > I was once arrested for trying to smuggle books into Kentucky. Happily I was let off on a technicality…no one could prove they were books. > > (shamelessly stolen from Steven Wright) > > -XT I was going to post that, but I don’t think it was Steven Wright. I seem to recall it was another comic, damn, I forgot his name, but he said, “You know you’re fat if you can pinch an inch on your forehead!” I could be wrong though, and thus subject to a pitting, however weakly, of my own. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395/25 "2008-10-17T18:19:14Z")
Well fuckety, fuck. Fuck me running for not noticing the original story date. I’m usually more observant than that. I can only attribute it to not getting my RDA of braainnnzz this morning. Apologies. But enjoy the thread anyway. And if someone wants to pit me for this, I’ll take my lumps. With a side of braainnnzz. eta: At least it’s not another fucking thread about politics. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395/26 "2008-10-17T18:24:47Z")
Just because something happened a few years ago doesn’t mean it’s not worth bitching about. Now, [according to this,](http://www.zerointelligence.net/archives/000604.php) what happened later was that the kid was indicted on a misdemeanor, then the charges were dropped, but for some reason he was given two years’ probation. It’s stuff like this story that made me lose respect for grownups when I was a child. It was scary, finding out how fucking stupid the adults in authority can be. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395/27 "2008-10-17T18:33:47Z")
It’s a zombie news post about zombies. Does that make this a zombie thread? ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395/28 "2008-10-17T18:42:52Z")
Only if someone resurrects it in six months. It will then be an epic zombie thread. And og help the mod that tries to shut it down. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395/29 "2008-10-17T19:47:47Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > It’s a zombie news post about zombies. Does that make this a zombie thread? A (((zombie) zombie) zombie) thread? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395/30 "2008-10-17T19:51:26Z")
So, it’s illegal to broadcast _Buffy_ in Kentu…never mind. It’s about demons and such so it probably IS. ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395/31 "2008-10-17T19:52:04Z")
It’s meta-zombie! ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395/32 "2008-10-17T19:53:58Z")
[QUOTE=dropzone] So, it’s illegal to broadcast Buffy in Kentu…never mind. It’s about demons and such so it probably IS. [/QUOTE] I think they are able to get pirated copies and see illegal broadcasts of Buffy on the Voice of American behind the Cotton Curtain… 😉 -XT ---
**Author:** ![Hogwash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e57/32.png) [@Hogwash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogwash)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395/33 "2008-10-17T19:54:06Z")
Don’t blame the kid, he was only after good GRAAAAAAADES! ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395/34 "2008-10-17T20:02:05Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Where’s George Orwell when you need him? Catatonia? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395/35 "2008-10-17T20:17:31Z")
We may have had our free speech somewhat abridged in Canada with our hate laws, but fuck, We are still have free thoughts. This story was in a private journal and never was made public. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395/36 "2008-10-18T04:48:39Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > A (((zombie) zombie) zombie) thread? Do daah, do daah… ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395/37 "2008-10-18T14:03:05Z")
But then it turned out not to be a plague of Zombies after all but the school was in fact being used for auditions of potential candidates for Americas Got Talent. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395/38 "2008-10-18T19:03:18Z")
I remember when I was in fifth grade I wrote a story for class. It involved me and a couple of friends of mine having to fight an alien threat, so we went to a sporting goods store and I grabbed a shotgun and told the guy at the register I’d blow his brains out if he didn’t give us guns and money. I think there was also a hijacking of a plane involved. I’m surprised I didn’t get in any trouble. The teacher just refused to read it to the class. ---
**Author:** ![AllWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@AllWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllWalker)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395/39 "2008-10-19T12:29:02Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > I think they are able to get pirated copies and see illegal broadcasts of Buffy on the Voice of American behind the Cotton Curtain… First zombies, now pirates? This thread keeps getting better and better! ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395/40 "2008-10-20T22:18:31Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > Just because something happened a few years ago doesn’t mean it’s not worth bitching about. > > Now, [according to this,](http://www.zerointelligence.net/archives/000604.php) what happened later was that the kid was indicted on a misdemeanor, then the charges were dropped, but for some reason he was given two years’ probation. The probation appears to be a sentence from a contempt-of-court conviction. Poole was released pending trial with the condition that he remain away from the school; he violated that condition and was re-arrested. The predicate misdemeanor charge was then dropped, but the contempt charge remained. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-charged-for-writing-zombie-story/468395.md?page=3)