A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft

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**Frazzled**

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High school student says he was arrested for killing dinosaur in class assignment
Posted: Aug 19, 2014 4:17 PM CDT
Updated: Aug 19, 2014 10:25 PM CDT

SUMMERVILLE, SC (WCSC) - ?

A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended after writing about killing a dinosaur using a gun.

Alex Stone said he and his classmates were told in class to write a few sentences about themselves, and a "status" as if it was a Facebook page.

Stone said in his "status" he wrote a fictional story that involved the words "gun" and "take care of business."

"I killed my neighbor's pet dinosaur, and, then, in the next status I said I bought the gun to take care of the business," Stone said.

Stone says his statements were taken completely out of context.

"I could understand if they made him re-write it because he did have "gun" in it. But a pet dinosaur?" said Alex's mother Karen Gray."I mean first of all, we don't have dinosaurs anymore. Second of all, he's not even old enough to buy a gun."

Investigators say the teacher contacted school officials after seeing the message containing the words "gun" and "take care of business," and police were then notified on Tuesday.

Summerville police officials say Stone's bookbag and locker were searched on Tuesday, and a gun was not found.

According to Gray, Stone was suspended for the rest of the week. Gray says she is furious that the school did not contact her before her son was arrested.

She says her son followed directions and completed an assignment.

"If the school would have called me and told me about the paper and asked me to come down and discussed everything and, at least, get his point-of-view on the way he meant it. I never heard from the school, never. They never called me," said Gray.

Stone and his mother say they understand the sensitive nature of what he wrote, but they say it was a rash reaction to an innocent situation.

"I regret it because they put it on my record, but I don't see the harm in it," Stone said."I think there might have been a better way of putting it, but I think me writing like that, it shouldn't matter unless I put it out towards a person."

According to police, when Stone was asked by school officials about the comment written on the assignment, he said it was a joke.

Summerville police officials say Stone was disruptive and was told that he was being detained for disturbing schools.

Stone was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.

**Desubot**

So how long till they remove every G word from history books n stuff or anything remotely L shaped.

**Soladrin**

WTF is wrong with your schools.

Seriously, a single word now means you can be arrested? Christ on a stick that's a lot of freedom.

**Frazzled**

Disorderly conduct as a charge? Seriously? Maybe after the school suspended him for a week over a one liner about SHOOTING A DINOSAUR.

Evidently teachers and the TSA have a lot in common.

**daedalus**

Well, he loses points because he wasn't as funny as he thought he was, but the school loses more.

Sometimes I hear of this madness and I wonder how my brother actually made it to graduation in this day and age.

**DarkTraveler777**

I graduated high school in 2000. Things were starting to get a little weird my senior year after Colombine's mass shooting, but god damn am I glad I got out when I did. If writing about shooting a dinosaur could get you arrested I can only imagine the rap sheet I would have if I were in school now. At the time I was DMing a long running Vampire: The Masquerade games set in a nearby city. All my notes on Sabbat blood rituals, weapons caches, and attack plans for demolishing a hotel that was owned by the Prince of the city surely would have resulted in my immediate placement on Death Row.

**kronk**

Bunch of limp-dicked "My hands are tied!" dumbasses. Everywhere.

**jamesk1973**

Blue state?

**DarkTraveler777**

jamesk1973 wrote:
Blue state?

Nope.

**Ahtman**

daedalus wrote:
Well, he loses points because he wasn't as funny as he thought he was, but the school loses more.

That and the whole "16 year old says...after writing about killing about a dinosaur with a gun". Next there will be a story about how he failed math just because his teacher didn't like him. I imagine the police and administration have a different story than the kid and his mom.

**jasper76**

Soladrin wrote:
WTF is wrong with your schools.

Seriously, a single word now means you can be arrested? Christ on a stick that's a lot of freedom.

My guess is this hyper-sensitivity is a direct effect of our all-too-frequent school shootings, and that teachers are looking for warning signs everywhere, even in creatve stories about pet dinosaurs.

Another reason I'm glad I grew up when I did...

**jamesk1973**

DarkTraveler777 wrote:
jamesk1973 wrote:
Blue state?

Nope.

Really disappointed then...

I expect better from states that have not lost their collective mind.

**timetowaste85**

This is the dumbest thing I ever heard of (okay, I have actually heard dumber). I'm glad to be out of the school system. This is a colossal joke.

**jasper76**

timetowaste85 wrote:
This is the dumbest thing I ever heard of (okay, I have actually heard dumber). I'm glad to be out of the school system. This is a colossal joke.

Right? I remember writing all kinds of wierd violent stuff even in middle school. My teachers always encouraged the creative aspect, while making sure I understood the clear distinction between fiction and reality.\

I would not have survived in today's school system.

**daedalus**

Ahtman wrote:
I imagine the police and administration have a different story than the kid and his mom.

That's just, like, the Man trying to keep him down, man.

**squidhills**

jamesk1973 wrote:

Really disappointed then...

I expect better from states that have not lost their collective mind.

Haven't you ever heard the Civil War era quote; "South Carolina: too small to be a republic; too big to be an insane asylum" ...?

Just because a state votes conservative doesn't mean it can't be just as crazy as anyone else. It's just that they are usually crazy in a different way.

In a related story, I would never have graduated from school if I'd been a student in today's school environment. I once wrote a short story for one of my classes that amounted to little more than an erotic fan fic about an explosion.

**daedalus**

squidhills wrote:

Just because a state votes conservative doesn't mean it can't be just as crazy as anyone else. It's just that they are usually crazy in a different way.

That's actually remarkably sig-worthy.

**Frazzled**

jasper76 wrote:
timetowaste85 wrote:
This is the dumbest thing I ever heard of (okay, I have actually heard dumber). I'm glad to be out of the school system. This is a colossal joke.

Right? I remember writing all kinds of wierd violent stuff even in middle school. My teachers always encouraged the creative aspect, while making sure I understood the clear distinction between fiction and reality.\

I would not have survived in today's school system.

Indeed. Same for both Jr. and High School. I remember drawing a scene from the Battle of Five Armies. I'd have been locked away.

Of course back then you didn't worry about writing "gun" because everyone with a pickup in the parking lot had a "gun" on the gunrack.

**gorgon**

Ahtman wrote:
daedalus wrote:
Well, he loses points because he wasn't as funny as he thought he was, but the school loses more.

That and the whole "16 year old says...after writing about killing about a dinosaur with a gun". Next there will be a story about how he failed math just because his teacher didn't like him. I imagine the police and administration have a different story than the kid and his mom.

I'd like to read the story before I pass judgment.

**Iron_Captain**

You are not allowed to say 'gun' in American schools?
Geez, and I thought Americans were the ones who were so fond of their guns.
In Russian schools we actually have gun training and military drills. Stop this Americans, go back to your old weapon-obsessed guns=FREEDOM ways, otherwise you are going to make us Russians look like a bunch of militaristic, agressive gunslinging rednecks for having guns in school

**Jihadin**

Getting the feeling the teachers feel they live in a very very Romper Room world

**jasper76**

Iron_Captain wrote:
Stop this Americans, go back to your old weapon-obsessed guns=FREEDOM ways, otherwise you are going to make us Russians look like a bunch of militaristic, agressive gunslinging rednecks for having guns in school

Tzar Putin does a pretty good job of this all by his lonesome

**chaos0xomega**

The crazy thing about this is that I'm pretty sure the overwhelming majority of books/stories I had to read in high school featured a firearm or weapon of some sort at some point somewhere in them, are they on a new banned book list for featuring the 'g' word?

jamesk1973 wrote:
DarkTraveler777 wrote:
jamesk1973 wrote:
Blue state?

Nope.

Really disappointed then...

I expect better from states that have not lost their collective mind.

LOL, South Carolina? Very debatable.

**Paradigm**

This is just insane. Really, when things like this are happening my faith in humanity goes through the floor. Just, why?

Also, it seems most of what I wrote between the ages of 9 and 18 would get me locked up in that mental institution. I mean, I once wrote about stabbing a vampire, which clearly marks me out as a future murderer to anyone unable to realise fiction and reality are, in fact, different things.

**Hordini**

This is an isolated incident. An absolutely ridiculous one, but still. It doesn't reflect the state of schools and school discipline across the nation.

I assure you, there are still kids playing D&D and writing stories that include weapons in schools in the US, and the vast majority of them are not getting suspended or arrested.

Either there is more to this story or it is an isolated incident of a teacher overreacting combined with administration that lacks any intestinal fortitude.

**gorgon**

Again, I'm guessing that the content of the story beyond the inclusion of a gun might have triggered the teacher's reaction. What if the dinosaur was clearly a thinly-veiled stand-in for another student or a teacher? And wasn't it his freak-out that got him arrested?

I mean, I don't want to interrupt the BLARRRGGOUTRAGERAWRR!!! here, but if you connect some dots it seems at least *possible* that the kid has some anger issues that have adults concerned.

**Frazzled**

I guess calmly reminding him that was the plot of a major blockbuster movie (Jurassic Park II) and that dinosaurs have been extinct for at least 200 years (we all weep for our fallen coconut eating TRex friends) should have proven helpful.

**Ahtman**

gorgon wrote:
I mean, I don't want to interrupt the BLARRRGGOUTRAGERAWRR!!! here

Now if that were true you wouldn't be lookin' at all them fancy facts and context. You're supposed to buy into it that the word "gun" got a kid suspended, get angry, and complain about how things were better back in the day.

**Iron_Captain**

Ahtman wrote:
gorgon wrote:
I mean, I don't want to interrupt the BLARRRGGOUTRAGERAWRR!!! here

Now if that were true you wouldn't be lookin' at all them fancy facts and context. You're supposed to buy into it that the word "gun" got a kid suspended, get angry, and complain about how things were better back in the day.

Its no use. He probably won't listen.
Now we must send him and other deviants to Siberia for 're-education through labour'.

**Frazzled**

I find your lack of faith, disturbing.