Re: Hey Farml, Rob, David and All..

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:11:08 GMT, "0tterbot" <spl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:


>having said that, charlie would no doubt opine that an incident of 5
teens 
>going mental in a school with bats is nowhere near as bad as teens going 
>mental with guns in schools now averaging every 4 months and with deaths 
>involved, as is happening in the u.s., or nowhere near as bad as a
majority 
>of children of a nation having been roped into a militia & killing 
>people/being kept as *** slaves/both, as has happened in a handful of 
>african countries of late (etc). it helps to keep our perspective, what.
we 
>are extremely lucky in australia, although we work to make our own luck, 
>which helps.

You've no idea, me dear.   Indeed, count yourselves as fortunate.

It's a world gone mad.  These are children to whom this is being done
and who are doing these things.

Check this out.

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/040108/geo_263715960.shtml


Third-graders grilled on plot to kill teacher

Third-graders Police questioned a group of 8- and 9-year-olds at an
elementary school in Waycross. WeAPONS A broken steak knife, handcuffs,
duct tape and a paperweight were seized.


By Teresa Stepzinski, The Times-Union

WAYCROSS, Ga. - Police questioned a group of third-graders suspected in
a plot to kill their teacher at Center Elementary School on Monday,
apparently because she had scolded one of them for standing on a chair.

	   The nine students - girls and boys, 8 and 9 years old - are
too young to be charged with a crime under Georgia law, a prosecutor
told the Times-Union. Authorities withheld the students' names because
of their age and student privacy laws.

School officials rounded up the students Friday morning and alerted
police after another pupil tipped off a teacher that a girl, the
suspected mastermind, had brought a weapon to school, Police Chief Tony
Tanner said.

Police seized a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape, electrical
and transparent tape, ribbons and a crystal paperweight from the
students, who apparently intended to use them against the teacher,
Tanner said.

"We estimate between six to nine students were involved. ... We're not
sure at this point in the investigation how many of the students
actually knew the intent was to hurt the teacher," Tanner said.