Students had been planning the Food Fight; faculty got wind of it and made an announcement warning students not to go through with it. The kids proceeded with the food fight and 9 were arrested and charged. The 5 non-minor students were charged with "Disruption Of A Public School" and 3 of those were also charged with "Inciting A Riot". It's not play anymore, kids. Everything you do is taken seriously now. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rrested-massive-food-fight.html#axzz2Jz3vJC3b Here's another one from last year in Michigan. The kids were arrested, spent the night in jail, appeared in court in striped prison uniforms and handcuffs. http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region...several-students-being-arrested-and-suspended
A couple of years ago, here in Georgia, my nephew was charged with two counts of criminal damage in the second degree, one count of terroristic threats, one count of terroristic threats on a police officer and one count of false public alarm - all felonies - for spray painting on the sidewalks at his high school.
seriously? i can't believe this. ridiculous. this is innocent fun. there is no victim in this crime. the punishment for having a food fight should be having to clean up the mess you've made. the fact that a school would charge children with something like this, putting something on their record forever potentially, is ridiculous.
The boys at school used to hollow out apples and fruit and stick fireworks in them. Yeah, you didn't want to be catching them when they were thrown at you.
When I was in school, back in the stone age, we would just pitch something over our head. It would hit somebody and it would start. All we had to do was clean up if anything. It wasn't even grounds for suspension... Half of the school wouldn't be there for a day if it was.
i don't see why fucking someone over so completely really helps the way things work. you slap a charge like that on someone, their permanent record is fucked, they look like a scum bag for a moments decision for the rest of their life, people wont hire them, they end up having to sell drugs. i know that sounds extreme but it happens really often around my house. kids get ridiculous charges that will follow them for the rest of their lives against them for silly crimes, like possession of marijuana, graffiti, theft, etc. fucking. anger.
I don't know why they have lost perspective. You cannot treat high school students, pulling pranks in their school, like adults carrying these things out in public. It's school. It's a sanctuary for kids. Fuck. Let them be kids a minute more, please!!!!! This - taking youth away from kids - getting down on them - treating them nasty - really, really infuriates me. I'm passionate about these things.
well yes, but when its silly things like a gatorade or a bag of chips. i should have clarified. although one time, a friend ~found~ an old tube television in an alley, on top of a garbage can. thats what he told us immediately after having found us, and his story never changed, (and i believe him) but someone had called the police, having seen him walking down the street carrying it, and reported that he stole it. they attempted to blame a recent B&E on him, but the lack of evidence prevented that, also since the TV wasn't one of the things missing from the house that had been broken into anyway. it was basically a waste of time for everyone. edit: i know that story seems over the top, but it happened. in the neighborhood surrounding my highschool, there wasn't much crime, only under-aged kids smoking cigarettes and loitering, some pot smoking and casual drug use i suppose, so we've always thought the district was terribly bored for all their resources.
HAH so stupid. Getting charged with 'inciting a riot' for a school food fight. Freaking ridiculous maybe the rest of the US will wake up and realize how stoopid and stringent Georgia laws are AND how they are been enforced by many on massive power trips.
Im ashamed to be a citizen of this earth. Not even just the US... The entire world seems to be heading in this direction. I could be wrong. I dont knwo alot about foreign policy, but just from what I've observed.
This is sad. Sometimes I wonder if you look back at the people who make "rules" like these and pass them, if they don't have some sort of history of constant social awkwardness n feel like now that they are in some sort of position they can take out their not warranted anger n faults on anybody. Its a food fight, get over it, clean it up, and move on. And if you heard it was going to happen in the first place, maybe if u were doing your job better n paying attention n being around, it just wouldn't have happened in the first place.
