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Student Arrested For Using Phone App To 'Shoot' Classmates
New submitter Lord_Breetai sends word that a Louisiana high school student has been arrested for using a mobile app to simulate shooting his classmates. The app overlays an FPS-style gun and UI over a real background seen through the device's camera. The student tried it out and then unwisely posted a video of it on YouTube. Another student's parent saw the video and reported it to authorities. Major Wolfe of the local police said, "You can't ignore it. We don't know at what time that game becomes reality. He said it was a result of him being frustrated and tired of being bullied. He said that he had no intentions of hurting anybody. We have to take all threats seriously and we have no way of knowing that without investigating and getting to the bottom of it. With all the school shooting we've had in the United States, it's just not a very good game to be playing at this time." The boy is now facing criminal charges for terrorizing and interference of the operation of a school.
who the fuck was harmed? no one. interfering with school ops? when? how?
The US has become a nation of fucking pussies. Thankfully it seems that a lot of under 25's are rejecting the fucked up views of their parents and grandparents. The late babyboom and near postboom generations have been a disaster in just about every way possible.
Except there was no incident. No one was harmed and there was no intention to harm. He was playing an augmented reality game, that was all.
So has the rate of violent crime in schools:
http://curry.virginia.edu/research/projects/violence-in-schools/school-violence-myths
look at it from the police perspective. What if they do nothing. What if next year this kid really does do something? Who do you think will get the blame? The police will. So, they act, even though they know it is complete nonsense. Because they know that if this kid does anything down the line, they will be a scape goat for ignoring the obvious "warning signs".
Crap I know, but that is how it could go down.
They should arrest him if he actually does something illegal. You don't arrest people because of "warning signs."
Stop with the stupid "right to bear arms" crap and stuff like this will not bother anyone.
Buh? And also, buh? Nobody is suggesting that kids have the right to take actual firearms to school, so how on earth did you get from there to here?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
What's next? Arresting pre-schoolers who point a finger and go 'Bang Bang!!" ???
What do you mean "next"? You missed that one?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/maryland-grader-suspended-pointing-finger-shape-gun/story?id=18123294 (Warning: auto-video. Hit Mute first.)
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
Yeah, they do have a huge sense of entitlement. In big things and little things. They expect someone else to do lots of stuff for them. Little things like send you a spread sheet and expect you to do data cleaning on it. In part, because they don't know how to clean it up. Big things like just assuming that they get hired from an internship & a 100% raise.
Read this. It may help you a bit
http://www.waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/why-generation-y-yuppies-are-unhappy.html
At the very least, the posting of the video constitutes a death threat, which demands justice.
No it does not constitute a death threat. A death threat is, "I'm going to kill you now, AC". A video game is just a video game now matter what the pixels may or may not look like.
Let me say that again. AC, I am going to murder you sometime very soon. I own a gun. An assault rifle. I am going to kill you with it. This IS going to happen. So you might want to prepare a will or something. Perhaps flee whatever country you live in as well. Just to be safe.
The only problem is that I have no idea who you are and no way to find out and I don't actually own a gun. Do you see why threats are required to be credible and why the person making the threat is expected to have some realistic means of carrying it out?
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
It is unfortunate that we live in a society where posting a game video on youtube is seen as "unwise".
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
Although I think there were significantly less of these back in the day.
Assume no longer. Looks like the decade from 1900-1910 had the most shootings, but it seems massacres were rarer.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
http://reason.com/blog/2012/12/17/are-mass-shootings-becoming-more-common