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?

[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.

[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.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

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