Driver Calls Police After Student Mentions the word “rifle”
Steve Watson
Infowars.com
January 30, 2014
It’s been at least a week since someone had a blind panic over something vaguely resembling a gun, so here we go again. A school bus driver in Auburn, Maine, stopped his vehicle and immediately called police after over hearing a student on board say the word “rifle”.
The driver, from Sherwood Heights Elementary School, opted to call in the cops rather than question the child himself.
When the Auburn police arrived, they discovered a toy ‘Power Rangers’ gun inside the backpack of one of the students, according to Superintendent Katy Grondin, who added that the boy was not removed from the bus as he was getting off at the next stop anyway.
“Police spoke to the boy and said he can’t bring that to school,” Grondin said. The cops didn’t confiscate the toy, but the boy will face a meeting with teachers and his parents where his punishment will be debated.
Referring to the school’s policy on weapons, the Superintendent stated that it prohibits “anything that could be perceived as real. We tell students, ‘To you it’s a toy, but it’s not appropriate.’” Grondin said, adding that “Parents need to be mindful to review what might be going in backpacks before school.”
One parent interviewed by reporters covering the incident stated “I don’t think toy guns should be anywhere… Parents should be checking the backs. I know we do.”
This incident is the latest in a long line of overreactions in schools to anything remotely considered gun like.
Other similar idiotic cases include the infamous Hello Kitty bubble gun ‘terroristic’ incident, the miniature lego gun school bus massacre, the plastic toy soldier, holding a gun on a cup cake catastophe, and the perilous pencil pointing ‘pow powers’ of Virginia.
Even food bitten into the shape of a gun has been cracked down upon with suspensions.
In many of the cases, children as young as four or five years old were interrogated, or even arrested with potentially permanent criminal record reprecussions.
The list of previous incidents of this nature is now so long that it has prompted lawmakers to take action.
The latest to do so are Florida representatives who have introduced legislation that says “simulating a firearm” is not grounds for disciplinary action. The bill lists “brandishing a partially consumed pastry or other food item” as something that should not land students in hot water.
It also protects kids playing with small toy guns, simulating guns with a finger or a pencil, drawing a picture of a gun, or wearing clothes that depict guns.
Maryland State Sen. J. B. Jennings also recently introduced a bill to stop such idiotic over reactions being played out over and over again in schools. The Senator told CNN last March, “My constituents have called me. They’re upset about this…Their children, their students, are getting in trouble for these minor infractions and getting suspended. And they want it addressed.”
Oklahoma State representative Sally Kern also hopes that her bill HB 2351, dubbed as the “Common Sense Zero Tolerance Act” will prevent such incidents from taking place in her State.
Rights group The Rutherford Foundation, has represented several families who have been caught up in such zero tolerance lunacy. John W. Whitehead, President of the group recently stated “We all want to keep the schools safe, but I’d far prefer to see something credible done about actual threats, rather than this ongoing, senseless targeting of imaginary horseplay.”
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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.
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