The Terror Threat from Pop-Tarts and Hello Kitty Bubble Guns

By Clash Daily / 7 March 2013 / 18 comments

456px-Hello_Kitty-Bremen Jeannie DeAngelis
Clash Daily Guest Contributor

A few months ago, a five-year-old Pennsylvania girl was standing at a bus stop talking to her friend when she made the mistake of insisting a princess bubble blower is superior to a Hello Kitty Bubble gun. The little girl suggested to her bus mate, “I’ll shoot you, you shoot me and we’ll all play together.” That conversation resulted in the kindergartener that made the suggestion being reprimanded in the principal’s office, suspended for 10 days for making a “terrorist threat,” and mandated into a series of counseling sessions with a therapist.

Now we come to find out that a seven-year-old aspiring artist from Baltimore, Maryland, Josh Welch, is in need of some serious Pop-Tart-eating redirection. Seems Josh, who suffers from ADHD, was being creative with what was at hand and tried to sculpt his strawberry breakfast Pop-Tart “into a mountain” with his teeth. Josh’s venture into carving territory is what got him a two-day suspension from Park Elementary School, because from his teacher’s perspective the Pop-Tart resembled a gun.

Josh said, “It was already a rectangle and I just kept on biting it and biting it and tore off the top and it kinda looked like a gun but it wasn’t.” Young Josh explained, “All I was trying to do was turn it into a mountain but, it didn’t look like a mountain really and it turned out to be a gun kinda.” In due time, Josh will find out that it’s all in the turning-while-biting action, which takes practice.

Josh learned the hard way that art can be like that. A burgeoning artiste starts out wanting to nibble a mountain into existence and suddenly, with a badly planned bite here or there, what started out as a peaceful depiction of nature suddenly turns into a strawberry-filled weapon. Fortunately, Josh wasn’t attempting to fashion a ’7′ or an ‘L’ out of the Pop-Tart, because those two shapes look too much like a gun and could not have been as easily explained away as a Pop-Tart mountain.

One thing is for certain: while Josh may not be all that good at sculpting mountains out of Pop-Tarts, he sure is spot-on when it comes to discerning the mood of his teacher, because both he and his Pop-Tart were suspended from school for two days …

Read the rest at : American Thinker blog

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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=586866794 Donald Joy

Great rollicking piece, Jeannie. “Not calling it insanity would be insanity.” Bingo!
Todd

Teachers must investicate threts by students. WAKE UP!
- http://twitter.com/TravisAubreyFL Travis
  
  investigate has a “g”
- bertr_16
  
  you must have had a very concerned teacher about “threts” but really sucked at teaching spelling
- 1_Eddie_1
  
  What threat was made? The girls were playing.
http://www.facebook.com/john.douglas.16718 John Douglas

Home school, problem solved
felix774

home school? then you get idiots like Todd on here.
http://twitter.com/TravisAubreyFL Travis

After finishing an assignment in 4th grade I drew a big close up cowboy on the back with his gun aimed right at, well whoever was holding th paper. After teacher MsHiggs graded it(who I think I still have a mild crush for) she came to me looking a little concerned a little pissed off at-bay, said “Travis, did you mean for that gun to be pointed at me?” “No” I said, an “ok” & that was the end of it right there.That was oh 28 years ago. I think I really was aiming it her hahaha…!!!
Yeah though eating toaster pastries can be risky business nowdays, especially in the case of kidnergartners who are trained in use of tactical weaponry.
David

Both of these school officials need to go to counseling instead of the children involved. When a teachers perception of what a child “THINKS” can get that child punished by the school authorities we are, as a society’ in a world of hurt. It’s time that each school board sets up a review board to look into these kind of situations and let them make a decision as to what to do. As far as the child with the ” Bubble blowing Gun”, that wasn’t a threat only a child asking another child to play. I am 65 yrs old. My generation grew up playing cops and robbers using ” Cap Guns”. Very few of us went from shooting each other with toy guns to shooting each other with real guns. I grew up to serve 3 yrs in the army, including a year in Vietnam. I then spent the next 30 plus years as a peace officer. My years of playing with cap guns didn’t lead me to killing people.
geneww1938

No wonder they want unions to protect their babysitting dole. They surely are not teachers with common sense.

Home School, Christian or Private school. They are worth the investment if you care a bit about your children’s future.
bob novak

Another joke to add to the “We elected a moron” for president category. I hope those of you that voted for this mad man are happy with the new intrusions in your life. I hope you feel safer because little children are being punished for being little children. Yeah, I hope your really happy. Freakin idiots.
- reggiec
  
  Two guys are sitting around talking about politics.
  One of them asks the other, “So why are you a Republican?”
  “Because my daddy and granddaddy were Republicans,” was the man’s reply.
  “What if your daddy and granddaddy were communist fellow travelers?”
  “In that case, I guess I’d be a Democrat and president”
Archie Bunker

Across the country educators need common sense.
1_Eddie_1

The children were behaving like children. They were playing. What is wrong with people today?
reggiec

Welcome to the indoctrination world of Erick Holder.
****
Erick Holder 1995 speech:
“What we need to do is change the way in which people think about guns, especially young people, and make it something that’s not cool, that it’s not acceptable, it’s not hip to carry a gun anymore, in the way in which we changed our attitudes about cigarettes.”
“…Every day some kind of anti-violence, anti-gun message, every day at every school at every level”…
“…We need to do this every day of the week and just really ‘brainwash’ people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way”…
Is his brainwashing working? You decide.
astrojohn

I have a photo of myself from 1949 in my Hop-Along Cassidy hat and wearing my six-gun on my hip – I guess I was a budding right-wing terrorist!
kenrus

Is there ANYTHING too imbecilic for a liberal to do when it comes to, ahem, “guns?”

Apparently not…
http://www.youtube.com/user/SouthTexasPrepper Raymond59

I want to ask a simple question: “Why can’t Adults use some common sense?” (facepalm)

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