[andyt]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100205/koddities/us_doodling_student_arrested

Sad how many of these nut bar cases come to light.

[Brenda]

WTF??
So now we are going to arrest people who write on public bathroom walls?? Holy smokes...

[Akhenaten]

<shakes head>


5 years for murder. $3 million to a scumbag murderer who ratz. Sometimes I'm tempted to believe this is all a conspiracy on the part of police and justice to get us so damn fed up that we demand ridiculous counter measures.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Holy fuck man. I remember getting caught "de-facing" my desk in Gr.4. My punishment was to clean all the desks in the classroom at the end of the day. No cops, no charges, just the janitor making sure I did it.
Cripes what's next, a public flogging for doodling in the school books?

[andyt]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Holy fuck man. I remember getting caught "de-facing" my desk in Gr.4. My punishment was to clean all the desks in the classroom at the end of the day. No cops, no charges, just the janitor making sure I did it.
Cripes what's next, a public flogging for doodling in the school books?

That's the thing. It's not like anybody's saying the kid should get off scott free. But it should be handled in house, the way it always was. The consequences you got seem exactly right to me. Probably some bureaucratic rule why that couldn't be done nowadays, and anyway the janitor's union wouldn't allow it. They'd probably have to hire a physical plant restoration consultant with a PhD to supervise you.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

andyt andyt:

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Holy fuck man. I remember getting caught "de-facing" my desk in Gr.4. My punishment was to clean all the desks in the classroom at the end of the day. No cops, no charges, just the janitor making sure I did it.
Cripes what's next, a public flogging for doodling in the school books?

That's the thing. It's not like anybody's saying the kid should get off scott free. But it should be handled in house, the way it always was. The consequences you got seem exactly right to me. Probably some bureaucratic rule why that couldn't be done nowadays, and anyway the janitor's union wouldn't allow it. They'd probably have to hire a physical plant restoration consultant with a PhD to supervise you.

Yep, my punishment was exactly what it should have been.
Now that I think about it though, this is far from the first story that makes little to no sense that has come out of the NYC school system in recent months.
Must be something in the coffee in the teacher's lounges

[ShepherdsDog]

Major misuse of police resources. I'd have been put in solitary at a maximum security facility if this was a crime when I went to school. My desk was my sketch book.

[Yogi]

Likely a 'power-tripping' rent-a-cop. Even more likely, he's proly 'poundin the pavement now'!

[Proculation]

Vandalism is a crime.
Of course she got almost nothing because she's 12 yo but it is still a crime.

[DerbyX]

Proculation Proculation:

Vandalism is a crime.
Of course she got almost nothing because she's 12 yo but it is still a crime.

Are you kidding? You who so fervently oppose government control can so casually dismiss a 12 YO being arrested for doodling on a desk?

[Proculation]

DerbyX DerbyX:

Proculation Proculation:

Vandalism is a crime.
Of course she got almost nothing because she's 12 yo but it is still a crime.

Are you kidding? You who so fervently oppose government control can so casually dismiss a 12 YO being arrested for doodling on a desk?

Pursuing criminal is not government control. We have the rule of law.

I'm not for sending her in prison ! She's 12yo ! But she has to understand that what she did, vandalism against someone else property, is criminal. Little crimes are still crimes. We cannot say that something is not a crime because it's a "little crime". You cannot "littlely" kill someone.

[digerdick]

Book her DonO................doodle one.... It probably took a year of under cover work.....

[Brenda]

Proculation Proculation:

DerbyX DerbyX:

Proculation Proculation:

Vandalism is a crime.
Of course she got almost nothing because she's 12 yo but it is still a crime.

Are you kidding? You who so fervently oppose government control can so casually dismiss a 12 YO being arrested for doodling on a desk?

Pursuing criminal is not government control. We have the rule of law.

I'm not for sending her in prison ! She's 12yo ! But she has to understand that what she did, vandalism against someone else property, is criminal. Little crimes are still crimes. We cannot say that something is not a crime because it's a "little crime". You cannot "littlely" kill someone.

Oh please. This should have been dealt with at school, not outside it.
8 hours of community service for something EVERYBODY does or has done at some point in their lifes is ridiculous.
Compare that to 8 years in jail a mom (in Holland, but there is not much difference) got for killing her own daughter (14 years old) and I think we can make better use of the system than this.

[DerbyX]

Proculation Proculation:

DerbyX DerbyX:

Proculation Proculation:

Vandalism is a crime.
Of course she got almost nothing because she's 12 yo but it is still a crime.

Are you kidding? You who so fervently oppose government control can so casually dismiss a 12 YO being arrested for doodling on a desk?

Pursuing criminal is not government control. We have the rule of law.

I'm not for sending her in prison ! She's 12yo ! But she has to understand that what she did, vandalism against someone else property, is criminal. Little crimes are still crimes. We cannot say that something is not a crime because it's a "little crime". You cannot "littlely" kill someone.

The problem here is that everything you hate about socialism and government control is law. In fact its quite easy for the law do simply control what you think they should not. Health care? Commerce? All can be controlled through the law.

This was a 12 year old doodling on a desk. If you can possibly defend this then that is unreal.

The cops who did this should be charged with false arrest and fired. If you think that we cannot ignore this because its a small crime then you had better be prepared for arresting toddlers for fecal infractions because they went in their pants (arrestable for adults anyway).

C'mon.

[PluggyRug]

I would say...give her a larger pen and lets have some awesome doodlin.

The school needs to drop the PC bull and let children be children.
That's what school is about.