View Full Version : Middle School Students Kicked Out Of 9/11 Memorial Site After Throwing Trash In Fountains
If the story last week about the middle school students bullying a bus monitor riled you up about young people these days, this might make you angrier. Middle school students in New York went on a field trip to the 9/11 memorial site and were subsequently kicked out after several of them were caught throwing trash in the fountains. And on top of that, one of the students got in trouble for having bullets in his pocket as they went through the metal detector.
One of the students told the New York Daily News that his classmates were throwing baseballs in the fountains, while nearby witnesses said they saw “plastic soda bottles and other refuse” thrown in as well. A school teacher who was visiting the memorial at the time said what they did was “an absolute disgrace” and the students “need to be taught to be respectful.”
The situation is apparently so serious that, according to the Daily News, officials from the Department of Education are investigating the matter. The head of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association said, “It is really so sad that anyone would disrespect the souls that were lost in the terrorist attacks back on 9/11.” One of the students gave this response:
“No one was disrespecting. It wasn’t nothing like that… No one was being serious. Everyone was kind of bored and it was just something to do.”
The youth of America, ladies and gentlemen. And one kid who spoke anonymously revealed that a classmate was caught with ammunition in his pocket.
“The kid had three bullets when they went through the metal detector,” said a JHS 292 student who wouldn’t give his name because he feared the other kids might take revenge.
“All the kids saw the cops come and take the bullets,” the boy added.
Police said they discovered three .33-caliber rounds in a plastic bin in the security area of the monument on Thursday, but they did not make any arrests.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/middle-school-students-kicked-out-of-911-memorial-site-after-throwing-trash-in-fountains/
Kids will be kids honestly. I bet very few of these kids understand the significance of 9/11. Just like a lot of our citizens don't understand what memorial day is other than it is a day off.
None of them were old enough when 9/11 occurred to understand, and I kind of doubt their parents really informed them (or at least most of them) what the significance was. Hopefully this incident will get them the lesson they need to learn.
Sharpienads
06-25-2012, 11:46
Cheese and rice. Sadly, I'm not really surprised.
For a positive, my friend's brother lives in NYC and is a FDNY Paramedic (for the last 17 years too!). He said he took a new probe (rookie firefighter) out for a drink one night and ran into two guys, one was in the NYPD academy, the other was getting ready to ship off to basic in a couple days. The medic asked why they got into that line of work and even the probie chimed in with "9/11." He said it really lifted his spirits that these kids, barely old enough to drink, were doing such a noble thing. This all coming from a guy who had been with FDNY before 9/11 and who's father is a retired CSM from the Army. [Beer]
Not all kids are bad...
mcantar18c
06-25-2012, 13:22
.33-caliber rounds?
Come on, get with the program. Everyone has heard of the .33 caliber round!
It's what the bad guys used in Die Hard 2 in those plastic guns or in that last Batman...Chinese guns. I have a couple cases of the stuff...right next to my plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.
only 40 watts....hummmppphhh, you bought a kids gun[ROFL1]
Cowboy shooting aficionados, apparently...
http://www.loaddata.com/members/search_detail.cfm?MetallicID=180&caliber=.33&caliberid=15&header=.33%20Caliber%20Reloading%20Data
As far as the kids go, they shouldn't have been thrown out, they should have been arrested, and sentenced to cleaning the park for 40 hours.
“No one was disrespecting. It wasn’t nothing like that… No one was being serious. Everyone was kind of bored and it was just something to do.”
Yeah, something to do...like kicking the crap out of some disrespectful brat...
SuperiorDG
06-25-2012, 16:40
Why didn't any of the "witnesses" kick their little asses? I sure the cops would have look the other way. Nothing to see here folks, just move along.[Rant1]
Cheese and rice. Sadly, I'm not really surprised.
More like bread and circuses.
Bread and Circuses’ is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.
although kids are surely punks these days, i don't feel this is nearly as bad as the bus incident. yeah throwing trash in fountains at a place like that is disrespectful, but most don't understand or comprehend the whole situation. i mean i knew kids in 8th grade that dropped trash on the ground at gettysburg. they weren't trying to be asses, they just didn't even think about the sanctity of the ground they walked on. im sure it actually happens at military and national landmarks all over. don't get me wrong, if it was my kid id have a serious talking to, even before they went, but i don't think its nearly as sinister as the bus incident.
Perhaps if we just hugged them more and used the belt less...this all could have been avoided.
[Flower]
although kids are surely punks these days, i don't feel this is nearly as bad as the bus incident. yeah throwing trash in fountains at a place like that is disrespectful, but most don't understand or comprehend the whole situation. i mean i knew kids in 8th grade that dropped trash on the ground at gettysburg. they weren't trying to be asses, they just didn't even think about the sanctity of the ground they walked on. im sure it actually happens at military and national landmarks all over. don't get me wrong, if it was my kid id have a serious talking to, even before they went, but i don't think its nearly as sinister as the bus incident.
Gettysburg was 150 years ago. 9/11 was 10 years ago. They were all around when the attacks occured.
Community service and a lot of it. Work as grounds maintenance and trash cleanup duty for all memorials in that area.
Scanker19
06-25-2012, 19:08
.33 is better than .45ACP.
clublights
06-25-2012, 20:30
Gettysburg was 150 years ago. 9/11 was 10 years ago. They were all around when the attacks occured.
they were around 3 years old on september 11th 8th grade is 13-14 year olds .
yes Sept. 11 is a huge deal but I'll tell ya this I don't remember a damn thing that happen in 1978 .... when I was 3
Great-Kazoo
06-25-2012, 20:35
they were around 3 years old on september 11th 8th grade is 13-14 year olds .
yes Sept. 11 is a huge deal but I'll tell ya this I don't remember a damn thing that happen in 1978 .... when I was 3
2 strippers, 4 harleys, last call 4 am at the bar, yeah i remember. Hanging out drinking until the bar reopened @ 6am was a long 2 hours, me i just watched:)
KevDen2005
06-25-2012, 20:53
.33-caliber rounds?
I was thinking the same thing
KevDen2005
06-25-2012, 20:54
right next to my phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.
Only what you see pal.
Gettysburg was 150 years ago. 9/11 was 10 years ago. They were all around when the attacks occured.
Surely you don't think a kid sees the difference. They weren't old enough to experience it so it doesn't matter if it was 10 years ago or 300. To them it's history either way.
josh7328
06-26-2012, 05:17
.33 is better than .45ACP.
it bounces around inside of your body and causes alot of internal bleeding... [PoPo]
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