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	influencethis 2007-05-06 11:58 pm UTC (link)
	Here in Illinois, we've got a high school kid being either imprisoned or in therapy after writing a violent story for an assignment, because the VT killer wrote some really weird stuff before he went on his rampage. I mean, okay, people are freaking out, but arresting someone because their stories are offensive/violent? We'd have to put Tarantino in lockup. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

mindset
2007-05-07 12:27 am UTC (link)

Ah! He's not in jail, and is going back to school and will be graduating with his class. Hopefully he is getting a wee bit of therapy because (even though the teacher told him to write anything he wanted) there is still something somewhat perhaps wrong with writing you want to kill everyone and have sex with their dead bodies and telling the teacher "don't be surprised if you inspire the next VT here at [his school]". I mean, maybe just a little.

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	influencethis 2007-05-07 12:50 am UTC (link)
	...oh. I was under the impression that it went from violent story=>go to jail. I apologise for my misinformation. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2007-05-08 06:49 am UTC (link)
	:whispers: I read his essay when it was printed in the Tribune, and I was more disturbed by the fact that he's a straight-A student, because there was some crazy-mad [sic] going on there. I'm going to Hell, I know. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	silrana 2007-05-07 02:43 am UTC (link)
	I would have been at the shrink non-stop for some of the stuff I did in school. In sixth grade for creative writing I wrote a story that had a crazed psycho killing everyone in my class. And it was a comedy. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ayezur 2007-05-07 03:09 am UTC (link)
	...was it well-written? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

silrana
2007-05-07 10:54 am UTC (link)

Well written for a twelve year old, I suppose, since everyone loved it. It was purely a farce. For example, I had the bodies of the boy and girl likely to start dating the instant their parents said they were old enough stuffed into the washer and dryer, as a set. But that was over thirty years ago. Today it would put me on all kinds of watch lists.

And heaven help me if anyone had overheard me and my best friend plotting the death of our geometry teacher (he was a huge asshole). We were only tossing around ideas to blow off steam and didn't mean a word of it, but nowadays we would have been led out of the school in handcuffs.

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hallidae
2007-05-07 03:16 am UTC (link)

I got sent to the school shrink for three months over a story I did in my History o'Sci-Fi class. We had to do a "Forbidden Planet" style bit with our Ids coming to life, and mine went on a killing spree before turning on its creator. Did illustrations for it and everything. My Sci-Fi teacher loved it, one of the students (who wasn't even a victim of the thing), not so much, and she reported me.

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	amxjm 2007-05-07 03:37 am UTC (link)
	Back in 7th grade, I used to sit around in gym class and draw stuff. Mostly it amounted to overblown Mortal Kombat-style violence. And by "Mortal Kombat-style," I mean near exact ripoffs of Mortal Kombat fatalities, because I had all the originality of a copying machine back then. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

sepiamagpie
2007-05-07 04:28 am UTC (link)

I wrote about zombies and necromancers. I'd like to join in with 'and I should have been in therapy for it!' but they were like, if in-between the singalongs and flower-growing, my little ponies raised the dead.

So mostly they just started putting me in the girl groups.

:(

~~I did get in trouble for using the word villain once, but that event is so stupid it makes baby jesus cry to think about~~

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	amxjm 2007-05-07 04:34 am UTC (link)
	~~I did get in trouble for using the word villain once, but that event is so stupid it makes baby jesus cry to think about~~ ~~Wow, that's an impressive level of stupid. I'm almost afraid to ask.~~ (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

sepiamagpie
2007-05-07 04:38 am UTC (link)

okay, you know that 101 things I would not do if I was an Evil Overlord list? I WAS JUST TRYING TO REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS CALLED AND CALLED IT THE VILLAIN LIST. :( I was told that was 'hostile language' and couldn't use that in my reports. I can just imagine if I'd gone to that school during my zombie phase. "I... all he said was brains? WHY ARE YOU SUSPENDING ME"

They suspended me for wearing a coat in school once. It wasn't even a trenchcoat. I think they were hoping to make someone snap so they could get some damn press.

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	iczer6 2007-05-08 03:24 am UTC (link)
	Maybe it was an ugly coat and they wanted you to develop better fashion sense? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2007-05-08 03:27 am UTC (link)
	shakes fist (Reply to this)(Parent)

	pointandlaugh 2007-05-07 10:27 am UTC (link)
	I got in trouble for using the word "flaming". Because it's swearing apparently. (I was all of five, and we were meant to be retelling the story of Adam and Eve. I described the angel's fiery sword as a "flaming" sword) still bitter (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zaliesiren 2007-05-07 03:33 pm UTC (link)
	I'm terrible. All I can think of now is a flaming sword that insists it's blade color-coordinates with its hilt. It's one of those D&D "intelligent" weapons that talks to its owner telepathically but all it says is "Fabulous!" makemestopplz. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dragonfangirl 2007-05-08 10:02 am UTC (link)
	Win. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	aposiopetic 2007-05-09 12:40 am UTC (link)
	I think Aziraphale's sword would be pretty flaming. Well, I mean, it is and all, but in the It Made An Effort sort of way. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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