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.