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Pointing a finger gun lands 12-year-old Johnson County student in handcuffs

shemp said:
They can if they're Police Academy teachers!
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Was thinking a bit more about this and I think the teachers are rather overreacting by calling the police in for what should be a school disciplinary matter. The teacher should have drawn their "teacher's pet" and just shot kid behaving in this way. Saves the police the time and expense.
 
lionking said:
Evidence for this rubbish?
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The school is legally not allowed to give information that might explain the seemingly crazy reaction. We don’t know if this student has a history of threatening violence or inflicting it.

On its face this a gross overreaction.
Unless charges are pressed and a trial happens we will never know.

I’m at about 75% that it is a typically cowardly reaction to imagined fears.
 
autumn1971 said:
The school is legally not allowed to give information that might explain the seemingly crazy reaction. We don’t know if this student has a history of threatening violence or inflicting it.

On its face this a gross overreaction.
Unless charges are pressed and a trial happens we will never know.

I’m at about 75% that it is a typically cowardly reaction to imagined fears.
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She better stop mouthing off.

He said his granddaughter has no access to a real gun and she had no intent of harming anyone. “She was just mouthing off,” he said.

Read more here: https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article235891762.html#storylink=cpy
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Parents are getting a little over-protective. When I was half her age, I had an imaginary machine gun.
 
Cain said:
Parents are getting a little over-protective. When I was half her age, I had an imaginary machine gun.
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When we were a couple of years older than her we were having play fights with bits of pencil in actual slug guns.

Times change I guess.
 
cullennz said:
When we were a couple of years older than her we were having play fights with bits of pencil in actual slug guns.

Times change I guess.
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When I was little, we used to fence with my mother's knitting needles, occasionally drawing blood when carving the letter 'Z' on our opponent's chest, Zorro-style.

We'd probably go to reform school for that these days. I don't envy today's kids their bubble-wrapped and over-supervised childhoods.
 
AJM8125 said:
And if the the little scamp actually did go on to waste her classmates, everyone would be screaming about not seeing the signs.

Offended and threatened. Welcome to The USA.
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Having the cops haul a 12 year old away from the school in cuffs is a totally proportional response to them threatening others, even if it was in jest.

Besides, I continue to be astonished by how liberally American police use hand-cuffs and arrest/detain people for no good reason. It's like there's a rule that if someone is suspected of having committed a crime they have to be arrested, even if was just shoplifting a can coca-cola.

It's reslly no wonder so many people want to kill the cops.
 
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Arcade22 said:
Having the cops haul a 12 year old away from the school in cuffs is a totally proportional response to them threatening others, even if it was in jest.

Besides, I continue to be astonished by how liberally American police use hand-cuffs and arrest/detain people for no good reason. It's like there's a rule that if someone is suspected of having committed a crime they have to be arrested, even if was just shoplifting a can coca-cola.

It's reslly no wonder so many people want to kill the cops.
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:confused:
 
Ron Obvious said:
When I was little, we used to fence with my mother's knitting needles, occasionally drawing blood when carving the letter 'Z' on our opponent's chest, Zorro-style.

We'd probably go to reform school for that these days. I don't envy today's kids their bubble-wrapped and over-supervised childhoods.
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Lol

Wish we had thought of that
 
I got a kid in trouble when he mimed shooting me and I think it was totally appropriate. I told the principal, she called the kid in and I think Mom was involved. She was a really nice person.

He was 8. Smart and very self-possessed for his age. Also I had reason to suspect he had antisocial tendencies, but I don't remember why I thought so. He or his mom may have told me he'd been kicked out of another school. The incident generated a record that he had been warned.

It didn't occur to anyone to call the cops.
 
If the cops were called over a similar incident in Australia I’m certain they would have had a quiet word with the child and a parent and a much louder word with the teacher and principal for wasting police time. There would certainly be no arrest.
 
shemp said:
Pffff! We used to fight with axes!
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Luxury! In my day we had full scale tan battles in the classroom and Little Timmy got blown to bits on anti-personnel mine. There were no namby pamby calls to the police. It was character-building!
 
How fun it must be being a child in America these days. No bikes. No outside. Can't go anywhere without supervision. No football/hockey in the road ("CAR!!!"). Playdates! Can't play "army" and shoot each other. People don't get drivers licenses til they're 25, and they never move out.

I think I'm glad I'm getting old.
 
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