11 year old arrested for stick figures arvada

[TFOGGER]

This guy would have overreacted and hauled him away in cuffs -



This guy would have gave him a ride home and talked to his folks -



We need more Andys and less Barneys IMO.

+100

It's a damn shame common sense is so uncommon...

[henpecked]

Gee I wonder why 9 news doesnt pick this story up???

[Byte Stryke]

I think the family should sue.
Hell, The Reyes Family is and I think this family has a better case

[sniper7]

huge waste of taxpayers $$ right there.

Kids say and do and draw stupid shit all the time in school.

I would have been in serious trouble for drawings in school.

I used to draw helicopters taking out entire villages (forget what movie it was from), jets blowing stuff up, you know...standard stuff for kids.

[Elhuero]

I used to draw a top down aerial view of my school.. in a bombsight.

[weirjf]

huge waste of taxpayers $$ right there.

Kids say and do and draw stupid shit all the time in school.

I would have been in serious trouble for drawings in school.

I used to draw helicopters taking out entire villages (forget what movie it was from), jets blowing stuff up, you know...standard stuff for kids.

so did I

but I never drew a picture that showed

me---> teachers ---->

If I have to choose between ensuring my kids' safety and bruising the fragile ego of a kid that is already in therapy because he has issues... guess what? Put the ego therapy on the therapist's tab!

getting the police involved was going too far but people need to be careful. When I was a kid I drew that stuff too but kids weren't going to school with guns and propane tanks meaning to slaughter everyone in the building either. There's a lot of people that haven't noticed how much things have changed with the past couple of generations.

[sniper7]

so did I

but I never drew a picture that showed

me---> teachers ---->

If I have to choose between ensuring my kids' safety and bruising the fragile ego of a kid that is already in therapy because he has issues... guess what? Put the ego therapy on the therapist's tab!

getting the police involved was going too far but people need to be careful. When I was a kid I drew that stuff too but kids weren't going to school with guns and propane tanks meaning to slaughter everyone in the building either. There's a lot of people that haven't noticed how much things have changed with the past couple of generations.

good point. it is just disappointing the police had to get involved when the kid was already in therapy.
he was out there getting help, his parents were on top of things, he was following directions of his therapist and yet the system still shit on him.

[Ed_S]

I'm not a big fan of the ADD label. Personally I think teachers should make lessons more interesting and parents should be more involved with their kids.

Too many parents these days are not parents they want to be 'friends' with their kids. I'm not talking about Victorian era beatings but teaching them common sense, responsibility and respect.

As for the cops, just stupid comes to mind.

[BigDee]

I think the family should sue.
Hell, The Reyes Family is and I think this family has a better case

X2

This is an easy open and shut case for the ACLU. I hope the city of Arvada has plenty of money stock piled because I see them forking over a lot of dough for Civil Rights violations.

[theGinsue]

Gee I wonder why 9 news doesnt pick this story up???

Fox News (National) covered it today. Watched this over and over today while at work and never once heard that the kid was from Arvada (but I was a bit distracted with actually working, so..).


It's wrong how they handle these sort of things these days. Yes, every male on this site over the age of 30 definitely did this exact same sort of thing when we were this kids age. None of us ever killed anyone.

If they are so concerned about it they should have sent the kid to the school counselors office (like they used to do with us), and let the counselor talk with the kid to determine his intend and motivation. But then again, the school counselors are more often than not just a bunch of liberal hippy idiots who want everyone standing around in a circle, holding hands and singing Kum Ba Yah.

This sickens me.

So, to the poster who asked if it is now illegal to be a kid - the answer is unequivocally YES!