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I’ll admit it here and now. I, too, threw a pencil or two when I was a kid. Got away with it, too. And look at what kind of person I turned out to be because they didn’t do the right thing and lock me away. After all, as they say, the pen(cil) is mightier than the sword! |
13-year-old arrested on a battery charge after he threw a pencil in class
Police arrested a 13-year-old boy on a battery charge after he threw a broken pencil in class that hit another boy in the back of the head, according to a report released Thursday.
The 12-year-old victim, a seventh grade student, on Tuesday came in Oak Hammock Middle School’s school resource officer office and said the suspect threw a piece of a broken pencil that hit him in the head.
Two witnesses in class said the suspect, also a seventh grade student, threw the pencil piece.The suspect said he was throwing pencils, crayons and marker caps at one of the witnesses and another student because “they were calling him names.”
When he threw the pencil at one of the witnesses, the witness ducked and the pencil hit the victim.
damn, I threw scissors at someone onetime, and they stuck…guess I would have gotten the death penalty?
You forgot the Wacky News form Florida banner…Zero tolerance is for stupid people that don’t want to have to think.
Well…it starts with a pencil you know!
Then, then its…spit balls!
You can’t be too careful with all that HIV, bird flu and terrorists around…no sir, jail is too good for this little Osama wannabee!
Send him down to Guantanamo I say, let >b>him get hit in the head with a pencil, let him see how he feels then, being a terrorist…!
No sir, I read the news, I watch FOX, you can’t take chances anymore in this day and age in GOUSA!
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I met this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy’s cousin who lost his eye to a thrown pencil. I think. Maybe it was something I saw on TV.
#5 SN
#6 Mister Uncle Ben
Exactly!
Why is it when you were a kid anything you are doing has the danger of taking someone’s eye out?
“Ahhhhhh but Mom we were just throwing pillows…!”
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jezzes there’s worse violence than this in schools and I’ve never seen a bully arrested for beating up nerds in class. what bullshit.
#5, SN,
Gee, with that many degrees of separation I might be related to the guy. Sheet, I might BE the guy that threw it!!!
So how many years do you get now for throwing a hissy fit?
#6, Mister Uncle Ben,
I think my brother’s teacher’s dog walker’s husband’s girlfriend’s pimp’s parole officer’s son’s soccer coach’s cousin’s doctor’s drug dealer met someone once who lost an eye to a pencil. Or that too could have been on TV.
Maybe the kid wanted to dress as a girl and this was part of his protest.
The conservatives blame the schools but I blame the conservatives.
“Zero tolerance” and mandated sentencing has been a conservative mantra and mindset for at least a generation.
Well, this kind of craziness is the direct result of that.
The united states is a communist country disguised in a “democratic” government.
This kind of shit would eventually come to rise.
Do you mean communitarianism?
There is probably a bit more to this story. Maybe this was the final straw for a violent out-of-control kid and the pencil incident was just used as a way to finally get him ejected, at least for a while.
Some good punchlines above 😉
On a more serious note, the pencil company will be sued for $50 million for manufacturing a “throwable” pencil that has no safety warning label. This potential near-tragedy might have been prevented with an age-appropriate warning to students printed on the pencil. How many eyes have to almost be put out before careless pencil manufacturers accept responsibility to make a safe product? I say “do it for the children!”
When the fellow students who witnessed the criminal act make their written statements, I think it would be a hoot if the statements were graded for spelling and grammar 😉
In junior high I stabbed a kid quite deep in the leg with a pencil.
He was being a real first class jerk at th time but I still feel very bad for doing that to him.
He believed that some of the lead broke off in him and caused a long-term allergic skin reaction.
I’m not sure it was every properly diagnosed and maybe I wasn’t guilty. It did seem kind of like typical teen age skin issues but he blamed me.
No matter, this is one of my regrets from youth.
Many years ago we came home from school and our house was being burglarized. As the guy was going out the window I shot him in the ass with an underwater spear gun. Pencils, hah!
What kind of a retard throws a sharp object at or near another person? They should throw the parents in jail for not teaching common sense.
#19, I have a pencil lead stuck in my leg from fifth grade. Actually, it may have dissolved by now…but I’m pretty sure the kid who did it was never sorry…and he never got in trouble, either. My dad even hired him to babysit once.
#21: Well, it’s interesting to meet someone who was never a kid, who never did anything stupid or dangerous as a kid and who always did exactly what their parents told them. First I’ve ever encountered.
Ha! We used to shoot sewing needles with cotton wrapping at each other. Yes very dangerous and very stupid. Thank god nobody ever lost an eye.
I guess we would be doing hard time these days.
only a pencil? heck i threw a desk at a teacher in middle school and all they did was send me home for the day.
I poked a kid in the eye with a stick in 3rd grade. I guess I would have been deported.
Kid folklore…
Running with scissors, shooting a spitball and throwing a pencil all at once will take your own eye out.
Sneezing, coughing and farting at once will kill you however sneezing, coughing, farting and running with scissors, shooting a spitball and throwing a pencil all at once will make you a god to all the other kids.
🙂
Cheers
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t’ mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi’ his belt.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o’clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of ‘ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to ‘ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o’clock at night and lick road clean wit’ tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit’ bread knife.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o’clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
And you try and tell the young people of today that ….. they won’t believe you.
ALL:
They won’t!
And no eyes put out either!
Cheers
#27, TH
I read and reread your post several times. Perfect. I am overwhelmed at the logic and clarity. If I had an award to give out it would probably be for something stupid and therefore you wouldn’t qualify. But I do admire this post and you do deserve some recognition.
Yes, that is me clapping a congratulatory acknowledgment.
WOW.
A guy comes home and tells his wife one of his co-workers got fired. The wife asks why.
He answers “for sticking his dick in the pickle slicer”.
“Oh!” the wife says. “In the pickle slicer you say?”
“Ya, they fired her too”.
Yes kids, back in the olden days, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, Uncle Dave was still Nephew Dave, and I was a little younger myself, pickles were sliced by hand.
# 29 Mister Catshit
Thank you, Mister Catshit – I am honored, I feel as if I have won an Oscar. 🙂
#30 Mister Catshit
😆 Yes, those were the “Beaver” years… ‘sigh’
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#30 Mister Catshit
“Yes kids, back in the olden days, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, Uncle Dave was still Nephew Dave, and I was a little younger myself, pickles were sliced by hand.”
Where have I been? People don’t slice pickles by hand anymore? 🙂