WTF?

[were_gopher]

An 18 year old high school kid has been arrested for writing a zombie story set at a school.  If we had this kind of mentality over here in the 80s I'd probably still be inside for some of the stuff I wrote at that age.

www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp

Comments

[occams_pyramid]

"Anytime you make any threat or possess matter involving a school or function it's a felony in the state of Kentucky,"

So that's about 90% of all stories written for children?

[were-gopher.livejournal.com]

Guess they don't have many childrens writers living in Kentucky then.

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

I can see how that's a bit of sloppy wording by the cop.

Drop "or possess matter" from the sentence, and it's almost clear. Depends just what "function" might be. Replace it by "or possess threatening matter", and add a bit of plausible punctuation, lost when the words were transcribed from a recording, and you have something that makes sense.

Trouble is, even with that wild guesswork you have to wonder what the prosecutor and the judge are doing.

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

As I recall, my stories involved a surfeit of nuclear weapons, with a spaceship hidden under the hill.

Reading the story, if the cop is right about the law it makes Harry Potter possession a felony.

[were-gopher.livejournal.com]

I think there's a lot of states that would like to make possession of JKs little witterings a felony. As for my writing the one that would have got me done was the one never handed in. That involved among other things a well worked out part on the structural integrity of the ceiling of the art room which was directly below the staff room. I thinik it never got finished because I was having trouble getting the recipie for the explosives right even with the help of a 30s Britannica.

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

Sounds about right for a frustrated Omega.

At least reading E.E.Smith gives you a more spectacular, and less plausible, alternative weapon of massive destruction.

Now it would be the furry porn.

With the crowbar.

[occams_pyramid]

J K Rowling had definitely better steer clear of that state.

As had anyone involved in any way with Buffy.

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

And a triple-edged legal complication: when he turned 18 he bacame an adult, which lumbers him with both the full insane weight of US law, and all the supposed protections of the constitution.

And the story reports that it was his grandparents who turned the story in to the police. There's something odd happening there, I think.

[timill]

This appears to be a Feb 2005 incident, but I can't find any references to an outcome.

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

I've just looked over the page, and see no sign of a date there.

Using Opera.

[timill]

If you google the name, "high school" and winchester (KY), you'll get a number of other reports.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Gee then BTVS and Harry Potter videos would be considered a felony in Kentucky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!