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These cops and administrators should all be fired, drawn up and quartered...

Students Arrested Over 'Violent' Stick Figure Drawings
Pictures Show Classmate Being Stabbed, Hung

POSTED: 1:40 am EST January 26, 2005
UPDATED: 3:07 pm EST January 26, 2005

OCALA, Fla. -- Two boys, ages 9 and 10, were charged with felonies and taken away from school in handcuffs, accused of making violent drawings of stick figures.

The boys were arrested Monday on charges of making a written threat to kill or harm another person, a second-degree felony.

The special education students used pencil and red crayon to draw primitive stick figure scenes on scrap paper that showed a 10-year-old classmate being stabbed and hung, police said.
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"The officer found they were drawing these pictures for the sole purpose of intimidating and scaring the victim," said Ocala Police Sgt. Russ Kern.

The boy depicted in the drawings told his teacher, who took the sketches and contacted the school dean, Marty Clifford. Clifford called police, who arrested the boys after consulting with the State Attorney's Office.

They were also suspended from school.

One drawing showed the two boys standing on either side of the other boy and "holding knives pointed through" his body, according to a police report. The figures were identified by written names or initials.

Another drawing showed a stick figure hanging, tears falling from his eyes, with two other stick figures standing below him. Other pieces of scrap paper listed misspelled profanities and the initials of the boy who was allegedly threatened.

Parents of both of the arrested boys said they thought the boys should be punished by the school and families, not the legal system.

Ocala police said they stand behind the decision to arrest the children.

"When an adult or even myself look at the picture looked at it at first I was thinking there is really not much to the picture or I would not be that scared by the picture those children drew," Ocala police spokesman Russ Kearn said. "However, we have to put ourselves in his mind and that's the bottom line here. It is his well-being and the way he perceived that picture to be. It actually put him in extreme fear and he was in fear for his life."

Well, it seems there should be a balance there somewhere. But you can bet that those two kids will probably never do anything like that again. After Columbine and some other incidents, the schools seem to take that stuff a lot more seriously. They certainly did where my son went to elementary school.

Well, in the words of Mr Snake when some-one beeped me and I got out of my car, reached in their window and beeped their horn continuously while saying "DO YOU THINK THAT THIS REALLY HELPS?":

"I don't think they'll do that again".

yeah, but these are special ed kids for crying out loud.....they could have watched zorro the night before or something..

this country is going to hell....fast....

Did you really do that???

Hilarious! I'd've paid to see the expression on the driver's face.

Man or woman?

It's not what you do. It's how others perceive you. Welcome to the world of the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire.

Ain't that the truth.

Yes.

Expression was priceless.

Woman.

Don't fvck with Snake.