8 year old arrested for paper gun, words

[Bill Stewart]

Yes, but either the kids didn't say things like
"I'm going to kill you all" to the class,
or else they watched the TV News enough to know whether
it's a bad day to say that sort of thing (....)

Or at least they only said it on the playground when they were playing
Native Americans and Invading European Cattle-Enslavers.


At 05:37 PM 03/22/2001 -0800, Ray Dillinger wrote:


>On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Blank Frank wrote:
>
> >
> >               Irvington Pupils Face
> >               Charges for Playing With
> >               Paper Gun.
>
>How times turn.  In most schools, there's a trophy case.
>And dated not so long ago, in many of them, there are
>marksmanship trophies...  We had a varsity marksmanship
>squad, but I guess that was longer ago and further away
>than most folks are allowed to think now.
>
>Huzzah for the demise of school sports competitions...
>
>                                 Bear