12-Year-Old Arrested for Doodling

[rnatalli]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/02/new-york-city-girl-handcuffed-and-arrested-for-doodling-on-her-desk/1

Ok, what am I missing in this story? It seems a bit much to arrest a kid for doodling with an erasable marker. In my day, they'd make you wash it up and that was no easy task as most markers were permanent back then.

 

[jamie2112]

Simply idiotic.........in NYC I would think there are 1000's of people who did way worse than this yesterday.......

 

[krzywica]

Its about time they cracked down on those innocent little girls....they have been terrorizing that city for years!

 

[lsiberian]

Wow that's stupid. I think jail is more cruel than a paddling.

 

[Chu Gai]

Certainly not as bad as the two teachers at James Madison HS in NY diddling rather than doodling.

 

[highfigh]

In my day, they'd make you wash it up and that was no easy task as most markers were permanent back then.

Yeah, but those markers smelled soooooo good!

 

[Serj22]

Did anyone see that SNL skit a while back with Rudy Juliani where he found a new way to prevent graffitti? Rather than cleaning it up, he had a team go around with stencils that said "sucks" and stuff like that, and whenver someone graffitiied a name or gang, they would put "sucks" underneath it. That would be proper punishment.

 

[pzaur]

This is totally absurd.

-pat

 

[jlcct]

I remember seeing lots and lots billboards in and around the five boroughs aimed at recruiting kids right out of school. I would guess that means they are either desperate or they don't get paid all that much. Which would in turn raise corruption quite a bit.

 

[majorloser]

Certainly not as bad as the two teachers at James Madison HS in NY diddling rather than doodling.

DAMN IT MAN

Where were those teachers when I went to school?

 

[audiofox]

Yeah, but those markers smelled soooooo good!

Not as good as the old mimeograph copies passed out in homeroom-nothing like a bit o' mimeo solvent (alcohol, in actuality, but we didn't know that at the time) in the morning to get a buzz on.

 

[highfigh]

Not as good as the old mimeograph copies passed out in homeroom-nothing like a bit o' mimeo solvent (alcohol, in actuality, but we didn't know that at the time) in the morning to get a buzz on.

I thought about mentioning that but I didn't think anyone else would be old enough.

 

[audiofox]

Remembering the mimeo papers wasn't the worst-it was when my kids asked me what we did without cellphones. That was much worse in their mind than not having ipods, cable/satellite TV or broadband internet services. BTW, I had an early version of cable TV when I lived off campus in college-Columbus, OH was a test market for a new "interactive" CATV service called Qube, which was rolled out when I was blowing my parent's money at OSU. The interactive part was kind of lame, but it had 30-some odd channels, which was a huge leap from the 3 network OTA channels we got before CATV arrived. I have no idea what this has to do with the OP topic, but then again, I'm old and senile. Here's a photo of the controller we used: