Quote from: Meta Cognition on December 03, 2014, 01:56:34 PM

Somebody died in his choke hold?

Yeah, that guy. It became excessive once he was on the ground

Quote from: Meta Cognition on December 03, 2014, 01:56:34 PM

Somebody died in his choke hold?

Yeah, that guy. It became excessive once he was on the ground

MURICA FUCK YEAH

http://It’s only August, but an overzealous teacher and some overzealous cops have already landed a high school student in serious trouble for having — or, in this case, merely imagining — something that represents a weapon, but isn’t actually anything remotely like a real weapon.

The student, 16-year-old Alex Stone, was busted after he wrote about using a gun to kill a dinosaur earlier this week.

Stone, who attends Summerville High School in a distant suburb of Charleston, S.C., found himself both suspended and arrested after he completed a required class assignment, Charleston CBS affiliate WCSC reports.

For the introductory assignment, Stone’s teacher asked him and his classmates to write something about themselves and their current status — like something you might write on Facebook.

Stone decided to write a fictional story wherein he slew a dinosaur. He used the word “gun.” He used the words “take care of business” as well.

“I killed my neighbor’s pet dinosaur, and, then, in the next status I said I bought the gun to take care of the business,” the blond, baby-faced teenager told WCSC.

The teacher apparently failed to understand that he was writing a fictional account about killing a species of animal that went extinct about 65 million years ago.

Then, the teacher contacted school administrators, who promptly suspended Stone for the remainder of the week.

School officials also notified police on Tuesday. When police investigators asked Stone about his writing, he explained that it was a joke.

The police say Stone became “irate,” according to The Washington Post, so they arrested him and charged him with disorderly conduct.

When police searched Stone’s belongings, they failed to find a gun.

Stone’s mother, Karen Gray, is not happy about what happened to her son.

“I could understand if they made him rewrite it because he did have ‘gun’ in it. But a pet dinosaur?” the mad mom told the CBS affiliate.”I mean first of all, we don’t have dinosaurs anymore. Second of all, he’s not even old enough to buy a gun.”

Gray is also upset that school officials never bothered to contact her.

“If the school would have called me and told me about the paper and asked me to come down and discussed everything and, at least, get his point of view on the way he meant it. I never heard from the school, never. They never called me,” she told the station.

Stone believes the school’s overreaction was absurd.

“I regret it because they put it on my record, but I don’t see the harm in it,” he said.”I think there might have been a better way of putting it, but I think me writing like that, it shouldn’t matter unless I put it out towards a person.”

Officer was serving a warrant

Well for one, sarcasm isn't expressed over the internet as in real life. Secondly, if I saw somebody post they were going to shoot a school up then I'd call it in as a possible terrorist threat myself; certain thing s you don't say online, especially when other people can see it and don't know you

Quote from: H̲u̲r̲t̲f̲u̲l̲T̲u̲r̲k̲e̲y on December 03, 2014, 03:05:50 PM

How do you kill someone with a choke hold?  It takes like three minutes of a sustained hold to cause brain damage let alone threaten their life.

Him being a morbidly obese asthmatic man might have something to do with it. I don't know what the full autopsy report was or if something like an asthma attack was the final cause of death, but it makes sense... sort of.

Quote from: H̲u̲r̲t̲f̲u̲l̲T̲u̲r̲k̲e̲y on December 03, 2014, 08:39:52 PM

Quote from: ChaosMetalDragon on December 03, 2014, 04:36:19 PM

Autopsy was done and ruled it a homocide...and yet no indictment....

Homicide means "death by another human". Homicide doesn't mean murder.

Umm no, the definition of homicide is the deliberate and unlawful killing of one person by another.

Quote from: H̲u̲r̲t̲f̲u̲l̲T̲u̲r̲k̲e̲y on December 03, 2014, 09:02:41 PM

Quote from: Sly Instinct on December 03, 2014, 08:57:34 PM

Quote from: H̲u̲r̲t̲f̲u̲l̲T̲u̲r̲k̲e̲y on December 03, 2014, 08:39:52 PM

Quote from: ChaosMetalDragon on December 03, 2014, 04:36:19 PM

Autopsy was done and ruled it a homocide...and yet no indictment....

Homicide means "death by another human". Homicide doesn't mean murder.

Umm no, the definition of homicide is the deliberate and unlawful killing of one person by another.

Not according to U.S. law. Next time read more than the first Google response.

Yep I totally should have known the word can mean the complete opposite of itself silly me.

The New Oxford dictionary lists it as "the unlawful killing of a person by another", the legal definition is broader and says it's "the killing of one person by another".  One lists it as always illegal, the other lists it as sometimes illegal.