Police Arrest Student for Shooting a Fictional Dinosaur

The current charges against Alex Stone highlight the reflexive response to treat every incident in school as a criminal behavior

Jordan Richardson, --August 22, 2014

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Dinosaurs may be extinct, but absurdity in public schools isn’t.
Alex Stone is a 16 year-old student in Summerville High School in South Carolina. On the first day of class, his teacher asked the students to write a few sentences about themselves and then follow up with a statement in the form of a Facebook status. Alex decided to use this opportunity to make a joke, and wrote “I killed my neighbor’s pet dinosaur.” For the status part, he said he wrote: “I bought the gun to take care of the business.” The teacher, seeing the words “gun” and “take care of business” immediately notified the police to investigate the death of the fictional dinosaur and see if the teen boy had indeed carried a weapon into school. More...

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