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I
remember in the sixth grade when I fashioned a slingshot from a busted
balloon and shot Kenny Wells in the back with piece of plastic.
Sister Mary Margaret gave me such a whack with her ruler and everyone
laughed when I yelped.
TAVARES FL -- After
spending four nights in an Ocala juvenile jail, Kevin Cottle, an
11-year-old Lake County boy detained for his "deadly" makeshift
slingshot returned home to his parents Tuesday night.
The sixth-grader at Tavares Middle was arrested Friday when he was
accused of using a toy balloon slingshot to hit another student in the
chest. He faces second-degree felony charges of shooting or throwing a
deadly missile.
A Lake County judge ordered Kevin released from the juvenile detention
center on Tuesday afternoon and placed him in home confinement in
Tavares until his case is resolved. Kevin isn't allowed around the
student he is accused of harming. |
The school has started expulsion proceedings. I thought it was
illegal to identify the identify minors charged with a crime, let alone
something like this? In good America local citizens will drum out
of office any official who had any part in causing this
silliness. In feeble America, they won't.
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Rodge - Can this be independently verified or substantiated? I simply cannot believe this is true. If it is, screw the B-52, I'm carrying a 500 lb. bomb down to sunny old Fla. on my back and throwing myself on the courthouse.
ReplyDeleteClick the linked word TAVERES FL, or simply Google "Kevin Cottle"
ReplyDeleteThat's ridiculous. We made truly deadly weapons when we were kids. Our slingshots, made out of a wire hanger and rubber bands were wicked accurate and I could shoot a rock, into the air, so high, it would disappear.
ReplyDeleteHow did we ever make it through childhood with no bike helmets? I used to climb this cottonwood in our backyard, so high, almost to the top, and look all over and be swayed back and forth by the wind. And my mom might stick her head out the back door and say, "be careful"
I sound like the old man I'm turning into when I talk about my chilhood vs kids today.
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When I was much younger, as part of my approach to hands-on understanding of Biblical stories, I taught my Sunday School class how to make David style slings (a leather pouch and two bootlaces). We went out behind the church and learned to throw BRICKS. Granted, not at each other...
ReplyDeleteJust part of the campaign to keep us all broken.
ReplyDeleteHOLY. FREAKING. SH*T. This ain't the America I grew up in. Where'd crap like this come from? Please tell me, I want to go there and commit genocide.
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