Oops, maybe it WASN'T an over-reaction. The kid who was supposedly arrested for writing fiction about zombies was lying.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/11086999.htm However, Poole's teachers told police they had not assigned such a story or talked to him about it -- and had they seen it, they would have been obligated to report him to authorities. And, as it turns out, Poole's writings include no brain-eating dead folks. What they do contain, Winchester police Detective Steven Caudill testified yesterday, is evidence that he had tried to solicit seven fellow students to join him in a military organization called No Limited Soldiers. http://mousewords.blogspot.com/2005/03/doh-correction-time.htmlhttp://elayneriggs.blogspot.com/2005/03/correcting-record-granted-im-not.html