News from Blount County

[leroy]

Check this link out:  http://www.local8now.com/news/headlines/Blount-County-Sheriffs-Office-investigating-thumbtack-pokes-in-high-school-225596602.html

 

If ya had any doubts about the idiocy of local government, even in relatively sensible areas of our great state; just remember this...  Even im speechless...

 

leroy

Edited September 28, 2013 by leroy

[runco]

Well that has to be pain in the (|)

[Guest PapaB]

The cops should have told the principal, give em an assignment to write "I will not poke people with sharp objects" 500 times by hand on paper in ink. Tell them the words orally and instruct them that everything has to be properly spelled and any errors will require they do it all over. If any parents complain, tell them to write "I will allow my child to take responsibility for his/her actions" 1000 times with the same rules.

[UncleJak]

The cops should have told the principal, give em an assignment to write "I will not poke people with sharp objects" 500 times by hand on paper in ink. Tell them the words orally and instruct them that everything has to be properly spelled and any errors will require they do it all over. If any parents complain, tell them to write "I will allow my child to take responsibility for his/her actions" 1000 times with the same rules.

lets go 5, 000 & 10, 000. But I think you're on to something!

sent barefoot from the hills of Tennessee

[Timestepper]

Silly Freshmen! Thumbtacks are paper pokers, not pooper pokers!

 

Now, stay after school and write "I will not poke poopers with paper pokers!" 5,515 times (on paper, not the walls). And then afterwards, you may assume the position so that all those whom you poked may return the favor!

 

(That's the way my old Highschool Principal would have handled it... And the only way the cops would've known anything about it is if they read the school paper.)

 

:shake:

[TrickyNicky]

What a crap load of crap. I'm a little younger than some of you all, and a lot younger than others ( <30) and there is just no conceivable way that this would have been handled in a similar fashion at any of the schools I went too.

Elementary school would have earned a parent teacher conference.

Middle school would have been detention.

High school? This wouldn't have even raised an eyebrow in high school, teachers would have just been glad we were not doing anything much, much worse. Maybe would have caught an ass chewing, but that's about it.

[McGarrett]

My daughter goes to Heritage High School, I will have to ask her about this. BCSO has resource officers assigned to each Blount County School so maybe this falls into their duties and the principal delegated it to them but I agree seems like more of a school administrative disciplinary thing.

 

It seems that lots of things get handled very differently now days. When I went to Heritage High School I carried a pocket knife all the time and even had teachers ask to borrow it on several occasions. I can also remember all of us "cool" guys would have a .22LR bullet stuck in the little red tag that is on the left front pocket of a Levis jean jacket. I can remember bringing guns in my truck because we were meeting after school at a buddy's house to target shoot. If a student did these things now who knows what would happen. 

 

Man I feel old after typing this!

[RED333]

My daughter goes to Heritage High School, I will have to ask her about this. BCSO has resource officers assigned to each Blount County School so maybe this falls into their duties and the principal delegated it to them but I agree seems like more of a school administrative disciplinary thing.

 

It seems that lots of things get handled very differently now days. When I went to Heritage High School I carried a pocket knife all the time and even had teachers ask to borrow it on several occasions. I can also remember all of us "cool" guys would have a .22LR bullet stuck in the little red tag that is on the left front pocket of a Levis jean jacket. I can remember bringing guns in my truck because we were meeting after school at a buddy's house to target shoot. If a student did these things now who knows what would happen. 

 

Man I feel old after typing this!

O we do know, kicked out of school.

[hipower]

Referring to the video comments from an interviewed parent..."blood transaction"?? Should sterilized the tacks between pokes?

[vontar]

Seriously, can't we just ban thumbtacks in school. 

I believe If I was one of those poked I would want to bring criminal charges.  No telling what could have been transmitted from person to person.

 

What if someone had aids or something else and was afraid of having that come out.  Get another group infected and then just come out with that group as I don't know how I got it while causing 20 other people to also have it.

[Fourtyfive]

BREAKING NEWS

Wally World is limiting Thumbtack sales to 1 pack per person per day. Black tacks are being discontinued. Edited September 29, 2013 by Threeeighty

[vontar]

BREAKING NEWS

Wally World is limiting Thumbtack sales to 1 pack per person per day. Black tacks are being discontinued.

Don't laugh, a few years ago they carded my wife for superglue.  I was, WTH.

[greenego]

"OUCH"  

[McGarrett]

I asked my daughter if she had heard anything about this since she goes to Heritage High School. She said it happened in a home ec class during something involving sewing. It was straight pins and not thumbtacks and one of the students that was involved has hepatitis C. I think the affected students are being tested from what she said.

 

This is just what she heard at school but it may shed some light on why the Sheriff's Office is involved. Sounds a little more serious than just getting poked with a thumb tack.

[Guest Keal G Seo]

I hope they get arrested for assault or something. Writing lines is not enough for this. What if one of the kids they poked had HIV or something?

As for this wouldn't be a big deal 20-40 years ago, we were still learning about STDs and blood born pathogens then. Now that we know something as "little" as this can transmit it that is pretty serious. Ignorance is no excuse, especially now a days. With that said I don't think they were trying to spread anything but had they thought it about it for 2 seconds they would have known the risks.

[Guest tdoccrossvilletn]

Since hepatitis c is a terminal illness and will eventually kill you just as hiv aids will they should be arrested for attempted murder like those people that infect people with aids through sex knowing they have the disease. Sent from my mind using ninja telepathy. Edited October 3, 2013 by tdoccrossvilletn

[peejman]

Yes, the weapons were sewing needles.  So far, no charges filed. 

 

http://www.wate.com/story/23554212/students-go-to-hospital-after-classmates-stick-them-with-thumbtacks

[Guest 6.8 AR]

I thought the article would reveal some other criminal enterprise than tacks on butts, but that is ridiculous. My

HS principle would have given a butt whooping, but that is a thing of the past.

 

For the what-iffers, Hep C is usually transmitted in the same way as HIV, with a few exceptions, but if a kid brought

a tack into a school, that would be a huge escalation to an otherwise prank. I doubt there are those kinds of kids

who would do that dirty deed to someone else with intent. Ah, let's just sterilize everything. You can get tetanus

from stepping on a nail, you know?

 

You'll shoot your eye out!

[JAB]

I thought the article would reveal some other criminal enterprise than tacks on butts, but that is ridiculous. My

HS principle would have given a butt whooping, but that is a thing of the past.

 

For the what-iffers, Hep C is usually transmitted in the same way as HIV, with a few exceptions, but if a kid brought

a tack into a school, that would be a huge escalation to an otherwise prank. I doubt there are those kinds of kids

who would do that dirty deed to someone else with intent. Ah, let's just sterilize everything. You can get tetanus

from stepping on a nail, you know?

 

You'll shoot your eye out!

 

I think the point is that if they - even unknowingly - poked a Hep C positive kid (or a kid with any other, potentially blood born disease) and then poked a non Hep C kid, there could then potentially be another Hep C positive kid just because some dumbass thought it was a good idea to poke people with needles.  Wouldn't it suck to be, say, all lined up to be the class Valedictorian who had never been in any trouble, refrained from sexual activity and did not do drugs only to end up with a terminal illness because some crap-for-brains moron thought it was funny to poke people with a needle?

 

As to 'what-if', well, many of us carry firearms.  In all likelihood, we will never need them - but what if we do?  Not dealing with some of the 'what ifs' of life can have serious consequences.

 

Of course, as Keal G Seo pointed out, we probably didn't know as much about STDs and the like when I was in high school back in the late 1980s.  AIDS was 'new' and was considered a disease for gays, intravenous drug users and people unlucky enough to have gotten it from blood transfusions.  Hepatitis in its various forms was seemingly not as common as it is, today.  Our biggest worry along those lines was mono.

 

I specifically remember one of the 'hoods' (the name we used to refer to the generally delinquent element in our school) sitting behind me in class one day and thinking it was funny to poke me with a thorn.  There were bushes in front of the school that had extremely sharp thorns that were an inch or so long and pretty sturdy.  I was very much a 'good kid' so I tried not to start trouble, asking him quietly several times to stop.  Well, at a certain point I happened to move when he went to poke me in the elbow and the thorn actually stuck about half an inch into my arm.  How was it handled?  I looked him in the eye as I calmly pulled the thorn out and, with a stream of blood running down my arm, said, "Poke me with one of these, again, and I will shove it up your ass.  Just one more time.  Try it and see."  I absolutely meant what I said and, although I purposefully said it in a calm (if a bit growling) voice, I said it loud enough for the teacher to hear.  The teacher just carried on teaching class without saying a word to me.  The guy never pulled that crap on me or anyone else, again, and in fact never sat behind me in class, again.

Edited October 3, 2013 by JAB