Swear Bear – too funny (thanks walking bitch)
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Be careful what you write – you may land yourself in jail! This 16-year-old kid has been beaten up repeatedly by school bullies – by as many as 11 at a time. His parents have complained to school officials and police, to no avail. Described as “gentle and creative,” he has become scarred by years of verbal and physical abuse by a group of his peers. As part of a school assignment, he writes a short story about a tormented teen who plans to blow up his school to avenge years of abuse from school bullies. School officials question him, the OPP and their canine unit search the school and his home, find nothing – no hit list, no guns, no bomb-making paraphenalia, nothing – but they arrest him anyway. He has been in jail awaiting a bail hearing since December 8 (four hearings over the past month were postponed). He has spent his 16th birthday, Christmas and New Year’s alone.
This is outrageous. This boy is in jail for a piece of creative writing. Sure, I know – we all should be much more sensitive now in this post-Colombine era… but where does it stop? “This case has severe implications and people are very concerned. Does this mean writers will have to worry whether they’re breaking the law with every sentence they write? Can their imagination break the law?” (thanks to MeFi)
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Divine Interventions – “the home of Baby Jesus Butt Plug and more!” I know I’m going to be out of God’s good books for a while for this link, but what the hell… Jackhammer Jesus may be the ideal gift for the Linda Blair in your life. (thanks to dack for the link)
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From the ‘What the hell were they thinking?’ file: A public school bus driver and her friend were arrested for persuading a 5-year-old elementary student to urinate in a cup so they could have a clean urine sample for an upcoming drug test. (thanks romenesko)
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From the ‘Blame Television for all of Society’s Ills Files: – Lawyers for a 13-year-old boy charged with first-degree murder will tell jurors that Professional Wrestling is to blame. Lionel Tate is charged with killing 6-year-old playmate Tiffany Eunick while his mother napped upstairs. The defense argues that the boy was only acting out what he’d seen on television when he pounded her to death. (Her skull had been pounded flat and her liver was so severely lacerated that part of it had been severed – but since he was influenced by television, we should all feel sorry for him) … Once again, where were this kids’ parents? Oh yeah- upstairs napping… When do we start making parents accountable for what they teach (or don’t teach) their kids? Or maybe we really should just ban everything – no more Pokémon or Power Rangers, no more wrestling, Hollywood might as well just close up shop… Might as well go after any subversive literature while we’re at it – that’s what we need: a good old-fashioned book burning and witch hunt!
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I saw this report on 48Hours last night – This guy has a severe case of obsessive compulsive disorder and for the last two years has been locked in his parents’ bathroom. I knew a guy once with OCD – it’s a very strange and frightening mental disorder. Even more so because nobody knows what causes it.
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