California middle-schoolers suspended for viewing MySpace posting with alleged threat

Iria · Mar 3, 2006, 06:38 PM

COSTA MESA – Twenty middle-schoolers were suspended for two days after viewing a boy's posting on the MySpace.com Web site that contained an alleged threat, school officials said.

Police are investigating the boy's comments about his classmate as a possible hate crime, and the district is trying to expel the boy from TeWinkle Middle School.

According to three parents of the suspended students, the invitation to join the boy's MySpace group gave no indication of the alleged threat. They said the MySpace social group name's was “I hate (girl's name)” and included an expletive and an anti-Semitic reference.

A later message to group members directed them to a nondescript folder, which included a posting that allegedly asked: “Who here in the (group name) wants to take a shotgun and blast her in the head over a thousand times?”

Because the creator of a posting can change its content at any time, it's unclear how much the students saw.
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**dj_stick** · Mar 4, 2006, 05:24 AM

what the?

Dark Lord · Mar 4, 2006, 05:32 AM

let me get this straight... the school suspended these kids because they read something?

shit man, the schools better get busy suspending all those kids that are under 18 and have looked at porn in the privacy of their own homes.

if there going to go this far with this crap, why not take it a step further and start locking up all of us that have played violent video games that train us to be killers? god knows none of us played those games with the intent to have some fun...

pr0digal jenius · Mar 4, 2006, 06:04 AM

wait...on a PUBLIC server, and an online journal at that, you can no longer say you don't like someone?

shoot me now....and please god say you did it because i was a white christian while you're at it

Mar 3, 2006, 06:38 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	California middle-schoolers suspended for viewing MySpace posting with alleged threat COSTA MESA – Twenty middle-schoolers were suspended for two days after viewing a boy's posting on the MySpace.com Web site that contained an alleged threat, school officials said. Police are investigating the boy's comments about his classmate as a possible hate crime, and the district is trying to expel the boy from TeWinkle Middle School. According to three parents of the suspended students, the invitation to join the boy's MySpace group gave no indication of the alleged threat. They said the MySpace social group name's was “I hate (girl's name)” and included an expletive and an anti-Semitic reference. A later message to group members directed them to a nondescript folder, which included a posting that allegedly asked: “Who here in the (group name) wants to take a shotgun and blast her in the head over a thousand times?” Because the creator of a posting can change its content at any time, it's unclear how much the students saw. ___________ Read More / Source: SignOnSanDiego

Mar 4, 2006, 05:32 AM	#3
Dark Lord HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Grand Rapids, MI Posts: 5,945 Rep Power: 125 System Specs	let me get this straight... the school suspended these kids because they read something? shit man, the schools better get busy suspending all those kids that are under 18 and have looked at porn in the privacy of their own homes. if there going to go this far with this crap, why not take it a step further and start locking up all of us that have played violent video games that train us to be killers? god knows none of us played those games with the intent to have some fun... __________________

Mar 4, 2006, 06:04 AM	#4
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	wait...on a PUBLIC server, and an online journal at that, you can no longer say you don't like someone? shoot me now....and please god say you did it because i was a white christian while you're at it