Student’s hit list a bad joke, say police

[rainbow4321]

http://www.baytownsun.com/story.lasso?wcd=20063


A 16-year-old Sterling High School sophomore was sitting in a science class Tuesday, asking people around him for their last names, and writing them down on a sheet of lined notebook paper. Someone finally asked him what he was doing.

“He told them, ‘I’m making a list of people I’m going to kill before I die,’” said Baytown Police Lt. David Alford. “That’s kind of like walking through an airport and saying you’ve got a bomb.”

The accused student is not a loner; he is fairly popular, runs track and does not fit the stereotypical description of a student who would carry out death threats, Alford said, but that does preclude him from being capable of it.

Police filed terroristic threat charges against the 16-year-old Tuesday evening, but the Harris County district attorney’s office refused to accept them. Alford said the police may have contacted the district attorney prematurely, before they had all the bases covered

[saigon68]

1. What ever happened to letting the kids parents deal with this

What a waste of tax money. The government is now becoming an all encompassing "Super Nannie".

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Unfortunately, the parents of Eric and Dylan didn't deal...

...and the rest of society pays for it.:thumbsdown:

[jasop]

4. Unfortunately not true...

what is true is that the school officials did nothing to stop the physical, psychological, and emotional abuse that the rich jocks and popular kids inflicted. Which is the case at most schools.

[Cooley Hurd]

5. ...and the purveyors of that abuse deserved to die?

All I can say is :wow:

[goddess40]

6. You're right on the money

Those two boys were tortured for years and the school district did worse then nothing. By looking the other way they sent a message of approval. Schools like to tell the parents that they'll handle it and then they don't.

Did those kids deserve to die - no, but they weren't innocent victims either. Barbara Coloroso has a great book about bullying called "The Bully, The Bullied And The Bystander". If you are at all interested in what really happened to Harris and Kleebold (and thousand of kids like them) I highly recommend reading it.

[mudderfudder77]

8. Well then

Who wasn't bullied in high school or middle school? Thats a non-starter, if it was an excuse we'd never have any athletes - they'd all be dead...

[western mass]

3. If he wasn't "fairly popular and runs track"...

and instead didn't play sports and listened to Marilyn Manson, you can bet they'd have filed felony charges.

[livinginphotographs]

7. Exactly what I thought.

From my experience in high school, I'll betcha Mr. Popular had a relative on the police force or in some other influential position.

[coffeenap]

9. Yep--or if he was creative, an artist, extra smart (therefore often

friendless), wore clothes that didn't fit the mold, cared about real life instead of current culture, etc. etc. etc. Seen it, been there, done that.