Thursday, August 13, 2009

Extra Steps to Ensure Their Safety

The City Council authorized police this week to arrest students who bring to school objects that could be used as weapons, officials said. [More]
So they're going to make them go barefoot now?

[Via retrotruckman]

8 comments:

AA said...

Yeah. What is it that you always say? Any chair in a bar fight. I guess in this case there would be enough chairs for World War III.

Kent McManigal said...

Is there anything that has no potential use as a weapon?

Tom said...

In first grade I "stabbed" a girl in the hand with a pencil.

It was unintentional but I broke the skin. "Legitimate purpose" AND a weapon at the same time.

Kevin Wilmeth said...

The weapon is the mind. This is obvious since we improvise with the most unlikely tools when we must. One might choose a rifle if he's expecting a fight...one might choose a pistol when not expecting a fight...and one might settle for a coffee mug (preferably with piping-hot coffee, but useful even without), or even bare hands or feet, if that is the quickest or best option available to stop a fight that someone else started.

So: lobotomies for everyone, just you wait!

straightarrow said...

Well, there go pencils, pens, laptops, calculators, books, lunch pails, shoes, hands, feet, sewing thread and needles, paper clips, hard skulls (only the mush-headed may attend), belts, long legged pants, long-sleeved shirts, scarves, bobby pins, rings, necklaces, and these are just a few of the items that could be used as weapons.

Tom said...

You forgot food and water...but at least we'll save a ton of cash!

SamenoKami said...

My favorite from "Unintended Consequences" is - 'insert sharpened #2 pencil thru eyesocket, stir vigorously' (or something to that effect.)

Sean said...

I can kill a man with a magazine. Allright, allright, it only happened once, and I stopped short of murder because I was laughing so hard because my intended, shit his pants and screamed like a little girl. Thieves, especially barracks thieves, take note. I think the reason this is spreading is because the authoritahs want docile FUTURE sheep, not people in charge of their own lives, and hostile to tyranny. I have four sons who fit the description of independant minded, and frosty.