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Dramatic

In the Words of Alice Cooper - "I love my guns, hot dog and mustard...I love America"
Yay webcomic wank!

So!
Matt Boyd of MacHall and Three Panel Soul wanted to buy a gun. He mentioned it to a co-worker, the day after the Virginia Tech shootings. Another co-worker overheard and reported him, feeling 'unsafe'. Matt was promptly fired.

So, he made a strip detailing this wacky experiance here,here and here.

And then the cops came! Apparently the girl in the second strip looked like a co-worker and the whole comic was considered "Borderline Terroristic." (I swear.)

Since then, this whole thing has made it's rounds amongst the Web Comic communities, and of course, wank will follow.

Like here</> for example.

EDIT: Here's an interview with Matt himself.
And "Terroristic" is indeed a word. See?

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vzg
2007-05-07 09:16 am UTC (link)

Supposedly this kind of stuff makes people safe. Not like, you know, the feds are going to knock down your door and assault you the moment you make an off-color joke.

I was warned by a teacher for saying something about feeling not-so-good/antisocial one day. :/ (More as a kind of, "Shhh, someone might think you're going to make us the next BVT" than a "Shhh, or I'll have you sent to therapy" kind of thing, but still. He was serious.)

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	dragonfangirl 2007-05-07 10:04 am UTC (link)
	I once got called down to the principal's office for writing "When the alarm goes off, we'll all catch fire and run around like maniacs" on the chalkboard on the day of a scheduled fire drill. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	vzg 2007-05-07 10:09 am UTC (link)
	Oh, jeez. Because you were going to do that, right? I know my pyrokinesis is coming the mail soon. Aaah, authority these days. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mary_mac 2007-05-07 03:20 pm UTC (link)
	What's the point of a scheduled fire drill? I thought the point was surprise? [Our uni has an endearing habit of holding them a day either side of the day they tell the staff they're going to be. Given our staff and students, this becomes way more fun than any of us would like.] (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

chibikaijuu
2007-05-07 04:19 pm UTC (link)

We had both scheduled and unscheduled - scheduled ones came earlier in the school year, as practice runs for procedure, and unscheduled ones came later once we all had that down, to see if we could do it without advance warning.

(Though at my school we didn't have surprise fire drills so much as "idiot who pulled the alarm to get out of a test" or "moron who lit a trash can on fire".)

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	dragonfangirl 2007-05-08 10:00 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, we got those too -- it got to the point where when the fire alarm went off, we all had to stay in the classroom until someone came on the PA system to confirm that we should evacuate. Which, of course, made everyone wonder "So in the event of a real fire, we should all just sit and burn to death?" Our high school was a cheerful place. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mary_mac 2007-05-08 11:25 am UTC (link)
	We had that in grammar school. Except without the 'pulling the alarm for a joke' thing. School was too small to get away with it. Its a bad day when the students are pointing out to the staff the massive health and safety violation that turning people back mid-fire-alarm is... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ryuutchi 2007-05-07 04:53 pm UTC (link)
	I got called into the principal's office for joking about putting a bomb in the elevator shoot about a week after Columbine. ... I still blame my math teacher. She was making fun of the boys for not knowing how to make a nail bomb correctly. And then she told us the right way. I miss her. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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