Boy nearly suspended for action figure gun to school

An irate Staten Island mom blasted a grade school principal Wednesday for treating her son like a pint-sized Plaxico Burress after he brought a 2-inch-long toy gun to school.

"This principal is a bully and a coward, and needs to be held accountable," said Laura Timoney, 44, after her teary fourth-grader was nearly suspended for playing with the tiny toy at lunch.

"The school should be embarrassed. This is a common-sense issue."

Patrick Timoney, 9, was terrified when he was yanked into the principal's office to discuss the teeny-weeny plastic "weapon."

"The gun was so little," the boy said. "I don't understand why the principal got so upset. I was a little nervous. They made me sign a statement."

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2010/02/04/2010-02-04_big_trouble_over_this_tiny_toy_mom_fuming_at_a_lack_of_common_sense_as_son_buste.html

The weapon of mass destruction that was the cause of all the trouble:

:rofl:

But it's really plain and simple idiocy.

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with no sense of discretion???

Kids HAVE been suspended for that, because it is considered a threatening gesture.

That thumb is clearly cocked.

:D

The gun forum is about gun discussion and gun rights discussion.
This is nothing to do with 2A rights.

he thinks the principal is mad at him. :(

I'm thinking about the size of those tiny little sugar balls that go on one side of nonpareil candy. :eyes:

Or so.

Good job!

:evilgrin:

but this is completely Cheneyed up.

Someone could have been serious hurt by this 2 inch piece of plastic shaped like a deadly weapon. When I was little, the nurses office was overflowing with casualties from the Chewbacca action figure's crossbow blaster. We lost a lot of good kids in 4th grade to Star Wars action figure violence, it's a wonder any of us survived. DAMN YOU George Lucas and Kenner!

Where has common sense gone?

just kiddin

I worked at a school where a kid was transferred in after being expelled from his former school for bring an orange plastic squirt gun to school.

Zero tolerance seems reasonable if a real gun or a highly realistic fake is brought to school but something that is obviously a toy should not merit the same treatment.

...

But what if an action figure had gotten hold of that gun and started shooting other action figures? It would have been a plastic bath. And then a battalion of action figure lawyers would have shown up, and the school would be coughing up millions of dollars. Probably Monopoly money, but still.

:rofl:

... oh, the humanity, well, doll-ity?

I hate to think what kind of damage a kid might do with a 2" plastic-injected object without the proper training. He could have sprayed the class with tiny, imaginary bullets! :eyes:

I'm just kidding. I'm glad the Principal and school realized the mistake and fixed it.

When my youngest was in first grade, she was out on the playground--tired because
she had been out sick the previous two days. She was standing in line, waiting for
the monkey bars, when two fourth-graders cut in front of her and teased her about
never getting her turn. My first grader blurted out, "I'm going to kill you guys!".

The fourth graders told on her, and my daughter was sent to the principal's office.

I was called to come get my daughter. She was kicked out of school for the day
for threatening the lives of those two students.

I had to sign a form, and she was officially suspended--from first grade.

Our principal, said, "After Columbine, you just can't be too careful."

In no way was my daughter's comment appropriate. We had a long talk about
choices and using our words carefully. However, she didn't deserve all of this.
.
When I picked her up, from inside the principal's office, she was crying hysterically
and afraid. She later told me that the principal yelled at her, even after she
apologized and said that she wished she wouldn't have said it. He continued to lay
into her.

Interesting that the mom in the OP describes their principal as "a coward and a bully".
That's our principal too. He's a menace. I guess these types use all kinds of
situations to make bad decisions.

Welcome to the Brave New World young man. :(

I saw Glenn Close yesterday on TV. She looks like the woman below now:

Some toy guns do have moving parts and can send out some kind of projectile and undoubtedly should be included in the ban, especially if they approximate the look AND SIZE of a real gun. But the toy gun in this incident is just a representation of a gun, can't shoot out even a soft foam projectile, and is in reality much less dangerous than your average sharpened pencil.

If the principal lacks adult judgement or lacks trust in her own judgement she shouldn't be in a position of authority. There are no rules that could ever make wisdom and judgement unnecessary. This principal should go.

Packing like that, whew, I could have been suspended permanently.
My, how times have changed!

...most boys came to school with Cap guns and shot them at recess as we played 'Cowboys and Indians'.

I wore a knife on my belt through much of Highschool.

Things have certainly changed....and will continue to do so.

This story is beyond stupid though...

When I was teaching we had a principal that was like this. She suspended a girl for a week for saying "Oooo... I'm going to kill him" in the hallway when talking about how her boyfriend. She also sent a memo around to all teachers telling that they were to quit saying "Oh, shoot!" because she felt it encouraged gun violence.

Sadly, she's still working at the same school.

The lunacy of supposedly knowledgeable people never ceases to amaze me. People always ask me why I left....this is a prime example.

seven for using the hand gun gesture. I hate the school system these days. That dog he is in his last year of HS.

Another stupid overreaction by school authorities.

And note they missed the toy ax his friend's action figure had.

Several parents at the school felt the principal overreacted, including Kim O'Rieley - whose son was playing with Patrick in the cafeteria.

Her boy's Lego man was toting a tiny ax, which the principal deemed less threatening.

"It's ridiculous," said O'Rieley, 36. "He felt so bad for his friend. They're taking things way too far ... No one is saying guns are okay.

"Come on, it's a Lego."



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One of the models from Brickgun actually had a SWAT team sent to an office in Canada when someone spotted a guy with one at his desk.

If you were wondering what happens to 29-year-old men who still play with Lego, take Jeremy Bell as an example.

The partner at digital marketing company Teehan+Lax was surrounded by heavily armed tactical officers, cuffed and held against the wall of his Richmond St. W. office -- until, that is, the cops found the gun he had been holding in front of the window about 90 minutes earlier was a pile of blocks.

The BrickGun Semi-Automatic gun (purchased online from BrickGun, "designers and builders of the world's most realistic custom Lego weapon models") arrived at Bell's office Wednesday.

The lifetime Lego fan finished assembling his toy -- complete with build-it-yourself magazine -- at 5:40 p.m.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/12/04/12033281-sun.html

Where I live the school is constantly bombarded with requests from pro-war jack-offs to worship the killing and make more killers out of the kids.