March 04, 2005

• Kentucky seems like a really open minded community.
• that is the most ridiculous thing that I've ever heard in my life! does anyone know the race of the kid?
• American.
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• I think the Kentuckians are reacting badly to this because they've already had a fairly bad zombie incident in their state (tripod site so be gentle, read the tiny text).
• I would like to make a joke here, but I cannot because I find this trend to be so very frightening. Here in North Carolina a few years back, a kid was charged with Communicating Threats for putting "The End Is Near" on a screen saver. That was it. No other facts. Though it was a misdemeanor, his bond was set at $100,000.00. He was expelled from all schools in the county. He was convicted by a judge in District Court, then convicted by a jury in Superior Court. His appeal made it to the North Carolina Court of Appeals where there case was ultimately overturned. Needless to say, the damage had been done.
• Speaking as a native, Kentucky has plenty of fine folks with more balanced perspectives about the world. Unfortunately, like everywhere else in the U.S. these days, those folks are in the minority. Having read this article (from the MeFi post), I'd have to say that kid's grandparents really suck for handing him to the cops, no matter what they read in his journal. On preview, that's a good point, Fes. It would be shame if we had to nuke Clarke County...
• I can't believe that actually happens. There really are no words...except those.
• OK...I couldn't keep my mouth shut on the MeFi thread, and I can't here... Before we all get outraged about this, think about a few things. 1. There are only a couple of stories about this online, in one the police stated that there was evidence that this young person was attempting to recruit other students into some sort of activity. 2. The ONLY statement to the effect that this was only a "story" came from the kid (who doesn't sound like the sharpest knife in the drawer). I didn't expect to hear him say.."Oh, yeah, THAT plot to blow up the school." 3. I think that, for the most part, police and prosecutors have better things to do than this kind of witch hunt. After all Martha Stewart is on the loose again! 4. We could all say nasty things about Kentucky (and, I don't, and never have, lived there, but have enjoyed those few visits to a beautiful state), but what is the point in that, there are a lot of great people there. We could also say nasty things about the other 49 states and nothing would be gained by that either (unless, of course, we could convince New Jersey to drop off into the ocean). 5. There is WAY too little information out there about this incident to form any type of judgement...now if ya'll (note southern twang inserted just for effect, I don't sound like that at all) want to jump in and release or condemn this guy based on what you know you might want to consider the meaning of the term "knee jerk reaction".... 6. My infamy as an actual zombie makes me the final authority on this and I will accept no argument! (and, i've got the photos to prove it!)
• I bow to HuronBob's inimitable undead wisdom.
• While HuronBob makes some very good points, I do think that the DA's office or police or school would be very quick to explain to reporters that this was not a story and that it was a plan of some sort. That has not been the case, either. However, because of my experience involving the abovementioned Joshua Mortimer case, I immediately fear the worst.
• bernockle... don't you think that many police and DA offices are learning to pretty much be quiet. I think that, as a society, we're learning that sometimes it is best to just keep our mouth shut, especially when it comes to communicating to the press during an ongoing investigation? Personally, I'm waiting for more info on this one... Which is difficult given that I'm responsible for an alternative education program that, on one hand has to be kept safe, and on the other hand serves kids expelled from school under our state's "weapons in school" law.. crap, when it comes to opinions on this, I've got 'em all!
• I bloo up mi skool.
• The following is a response from Poole's teacher: "My story is based on fiction Redundancy. One expects a work of fiction to be based on fiction, it is unnecessary to say so. If it's based on fact, then tell us! It's a fake story. This would suggest it is real! I don't think that's what you meant. I've been working on one of my short stories, [and] the short story they found was about zombies. The bracketed [and] suggests it was missing from the original, incomplete sentence. This is clumsy (like a zombie, I suppose...) It was about a high school over ran by zombies." Over run by zombies. Tenses! (Also, it's normally written as one word - "overrun".) Synonyms for "zombie"?!? D. See me.
• flashboy... :) Good work...!
• Re:synonyms Undead-American Lifeforce-challenged Those-who-until-recently-were-breathing Festering flesh brain gourmets The shambling crowd People who have the neighbors over for dinner. Brain-sucking spawns of Satan
• Oh boy. If some badly written 'fictional story' by a teen sparks such movilization, I can imagine organized crime and delinquents in general must have a hell of a time to operate around there... ...or maybe they don't put anything in writing, yaeh, that must be it.
• HuronBob is right. *shoots him in the head*
• Ooo! Ooo! I forgot one! Michael Jackson.
• Wait, what if the kid WAS planning to turn his school into a zombified death trap? What about that, you free speech liberals? How would you like it if your kids became the victims of the dead who walk, whether by means of voodoo, viral infection or space radiation? It'd be the 9/11 commission all over again: "The administration was clearly warned of zombie attacks, but did nothing to remove the high school plotters!"
• The next time I hear or read about some U.S. citizen dismissing other nations as nanny states, I have yet another story to toss back at him or her. Afraid of zombies? Stop voting republican.
• I've seen this film - its called "The Klein Bottle". The kid writes a short story about zombies attacking his school, gets whisked away by the authorities for the thoughtcrime. Later, it's revealed that these "authorities" are in fact zombies! The film ends suddenly, when police rush into the cinema and arrest the projectionist etc. Katie Holmes is great as the kid. I gave it three stars.
• Well, I TOLD you the Bush Admin were a bunch of flesh-eating zombies, but you wouldn't believe me, would you? *shifts eyes around nervously, tears up post and eats paper
• Ah yes - Michael Keaton in Bluehorsing Around! He plays a conspiracy theorist grandmother who astrally projects herself into the Whitehouse to give the President a piece of her mind - but ends up falling for his lovable if cranky Chief of Staff! The whole thing ends when she realises that he's a robot, controlled by a bunch of kids on a website in Iceland - but she can't get her astral projection back into her body, and they work up an act around it playing Van Morrison covers as "The Astral Freaks". Two-and-a-half stars.