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Reeve Kasahara ([info]reeve) wrote in [info]fandom_lounge,
@ 2008-04-07 08:51:00
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Would-be Ls in Alabama
Death Note-inspired notebook treated as terrorist threat.

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[info]criticalcricket
2008-04-07 01:19 pm UTC (link)
Remember, once upon a time, when kids made threatening type lists and it wasn't blamed on anime/manga? Nowadays it seems some kid is getting in trouble at school about every month for a "Death Note".

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[info]atalantapendrag
2008-04-07 02:13 pm UTC (link)
Well, it's not like Marilyn Manson is popular enough to blame anymore.

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[info]brennalarose
2008-04-07 03:07 pm UTC (link)
Or D&D. Heck, some of those kids were in VA and not 10 (?) years ago, I could take my D&D books to a Virginia public school to read at lunch.

Funny enough, that was the year Columbine happened and my parents hung on to the trenchcoat I was supposed to get for Christmas until things calmed down. People will blame anything for kids and teens being stupid. When giant robot armies rampage through Downtown Atlanta? The Steampunk community will be next.

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[info]scootermcgaffin
2008-04-07 05:11 pm UTC (link)
To be fair, when giant robots rampage downtown Atlanta, it probably will be the steampunk people at fault.

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[info]brennalarose
2008-04-07 05:29 pm UTC (link)
Yes, but then they'll find all the Lovecraft and Poe and decide it's Satanic, then only outlaws will have rayguns and schoolchildren will have their brass goggles and pocket watches confiscated.

I tell ya, it's a sad day when kindergarteners are arrested for reading Jules Verne!

Brenna the Pink
On a clockwork soapbox

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[info]aristaea
2008-04-07 09:51 pm UTC (link)
but then they'll find all the Lovecraft and Poe and decide it's Satanic

Pfft, as if Lovecraft would have any truck with that pussy Satan.

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[info]brennalarose
2008-04-07 09:55 pm UTC (link)
You think sensation-seeking muck rakers would care?

Though, I could at least wear the button that says 'I liked Lovecraft before he was subversive!"

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[info]icedark_elf
2008-04-07 05:59 pm UTC (link)
To be fair, when giant robots rampage downtown Atlanta, wouldn't you be there as well? *would totally drive down to get vehicle converted to giant robot*

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[info]reeve
2008-04-07 06:02 pm UTC (link)
*would totally drive down to get vehicle converted to giant robot*

Real-life Methane Wanzers? I'm all for that!

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[info]brennalarose
2008-04-07 08:46 pm UTC (link)
Good point.

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[info]julesnoctambule
2008-04-07 11:03 pm UTC (link)
'When giant robot armies rampage through Downtown Atlanta'

I will celebrate.

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[info]icedark_elf
2008-04-08 02:17 am UTC (link)
Maybe it might make the traffic go away for once.

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[info]julesnoctambule
2008-04-08 02:37 am UTC (link)
They'll probaby end up stuck in the gridlock.

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[info]iwanttobeasleep
2008-04-07 02:20 pm UTC (link)
I just hope that these kids get a stern talking to about how joking about killing people is uncool, rather than having their Death Note manga thrown own and CN banned.

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[info]mistressrenet
2008-04-07 11:40 pm UTC (link)
Now, now, when kids start making lists of people to kill, it's obvious you should blame the media first, and not a shitty school system or overactive imaginations. Duh.

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[info]gunshou
2008-04-07 11:46 pm UTC (link)
Or, you know, lack of attentive parenting.

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[info]mistressrenet
2008-04-09 12:33 am UTC (link)
They know not this 'parenting' concept of which you speak.

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[info]rosehiptea
2008-04-08 12:42 am UTC (link)
No one ever made a list of people they wanted to kill until Death Note was written.

(Though honestly, I never bought one of those "Death Note" notebooks because I'd be afraid to write anyone's name down in them. Not seriously, but on a certain dumbass level.)

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[info]southerngaelic
2008-04-07 02:10 pm UTC (link)
...At least it wasn't Naruto this time?

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[info]brennalarose
2008-04-07 03:07 pm UTC (link)
Wait for it...

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[info]wickedchild
2008-04-08 05:23 am UTC (link)
...At least it wasn't Naruto this time?

This time? You mean Naruto was blamed for something before?

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[info]southerngaelic
2008-04-08 06:19 am UTC (link)
Yeah, but someone got killed that time. Some kids buried their friend in sand and left him there, thinking he would manipulate the sand around him like some Naruto character (I forgot which one), and he died. Something similar happened in Indonesia last year as well :(

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[info]wickedchild
2008-04-08 06:26 am UTC (link)
Oh wow. That is just so sad and...I'll leave it at my oh so eloquent 'wow'.

I like fantasizing and using my imagination but despite living in the desert I never once thought I could be Gaara (or any other Sand ninja). D:

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[info]tangentialone
2008-04-07 07:22 pm UTC (link)
where authorities classified its contents as "terrorist threats," even though the students told their principal that it was a joke.

So the... authorities actually think that Death Notes are real? Because that's what I'm getting from this.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2008-04-07 07:26 pm UTC (link)
"Also, I can kill you with my notebook."

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[info]tangentialone
2008-04-07 07:29 pm UTC (link)
XD

This reminds me of that time in kindergarten when a few of us got in trouble for pointing our fingers at each other and saying "bang". Only they got arrested for it.

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[info]vzg
2008-04-08 08:12 pm UTC (link)
Which begs the question: does River have the eyes?

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[info]melisus
2008-04-07 10:42 pm UTC (link)
Terrorist threats... I guess then by that definition, I have a weapon of mass destruction in my desk drawer.

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[info]tangentialone
2008-04-08 12:06 am UTC (link)
Please don't write my name down! D:

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[info]clover_elf_kin
2008-04-07 07:44 pm UTC (link)
My first thought: "At least the writer of the article did their research."

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[info]rosehiptea
2008-04-07 10:28 pm UTC (link)
Wouldn't those be "would-be Lights"?

Yeah, people are overreacting a tad, to say the least.

But I have to admit that this story still freaks me the hell out.

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[info]melisus
2008-04-07 10:45 pm UTC (link)
Sounds like Death Note meets Dexter. REALLY creepy.

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[info]reeve
2008-04-07 11:20 pm UTC (link)
Wouldn't those be "would-be Lights"?

Yeah, that would've work as well, but I was thinking mainly of the authorities' reaction when I posted this.

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[info]rosehiptea
2008-04-07 11:30 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, that works well too. But L would be much more kick-ass about it.

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[info]reeve
2008-04-08 02:16 pm UTC (link)
Agreed. Perhaps "wannabe Ls" would've been better XD

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[info]bigbigtruck
2008-04-08 03:15 am UTC (link)
Oh, my dear old home state. Never change.

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[info]pfeffermuse
2008-04-08 03:22 am UTC (link)
Don't most kids fantasize in some way about liquidating their teachers without ever planning to act on that desire?

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[info]solesakuma
2008-04-08 03:27 am UTC (link)
Don't most kids people fantasize in some way about liquidating their teachers other people they don't like without ever planning to act on that desire?

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[info]andi_chan
2008-04-08 04:22 am UTC (link)
*sings* Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school: we tortured all the teachers and we've broken all the rules! We barbecued the principal, destroyed the PTA; us kids go marching on...

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[info]rosehiptea
2008-04-08 04:46 am UTC (link)
I sang that one over thirty years ago. Slightly different lyrics... I can't believe I remember that.

But this was before Death Note. We had to scratch our enemies names into rocks with our teeth and watch Speed Racer on UHF!

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[info]come_love_sleep
2008-04-08 04:49 am UTC (link)
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's off to school we go, with razor blades and hand grenades, heigh-ho, heigh-ho-heigh-ho-heigh-ho...

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[info]agent_hyatt
2008-04-08 05:06 am UTC (link)
Joy to the world, the teacher's dead~ We barbequed his head~ And what of the body~? We flushed it down the potty~

...I think that, for an embarrassingly long amount of time, I had no idea that those weren't the "official" lyrics for that tune.

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[info]saralina25
2008-04-08 07:00 am UTC (link)
*wipes nostalgic tear* I remember the first time I sang that song. Who says Catholic schools aren't fun?

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[info]nekoneko
2008-04-09 01:56 am UTC (link)
I remember that one!

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[info]vzg
2008-04-08 08:14 pm UTC (link)
Hey, they were (theoretically) trying to kill me, first!

I had a few nightmares about teachers killing me.

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[info]pfeffermuse
2008-04-08 11:58 pm UTC (link)
We had Dominican nuns teaching in our Catholic high school. Wanting to kill them wasn't a cute little hobby; it was survivalist thinking.

(For those not RC, Dominicans were the ones who came up with that quaint little group no one expects the Spanish Inquisition. Those nuns goal in life was to put the fear of them and God into you -- and mostly in that order.)

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[info]vzg
2008-04-08 08:10 pm UTC (link)
Oh, wow. And guess what I'm doing my final project for my studio class on! I even bought a Death Note notebook just for it. (It's full of typos that are amusing just because they're so dumb.) But, then again, I'm hoping to work around actually having anyone write directly in it — they're either going to fake writing with a pen that doesn't work or write on a piece of paper I put into the notebook.

I guess my classmates weren't so far off when they warned me about letting the administration see it, though. I wonder if they'll suspect me for trying to kill Ray Penber — since his name is in there and all, I mean.

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[info]panthea
2008-04-08 09:44 pm UTC (link)
So L7 are terrorists now?

(I grab my pen and I write out a list....)

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