School Confiscation

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I got an email from the kids' school today. They successfully confiscated a 4 x 0.5" toy gun designed to dispense toothpaste.

No word on cavity casualties.

"This is an opportunity for us to remind you that at no time should a student bring in or be in possession of any toy weapon or anything that could be mistaken as a weapon. This is critical to the safety and emotional well being of our students and staff."

Critical to the well being of staff....
 
DecOFlaherty said:
I got an email from the kids' school today. They successfully confiscated a 4 x 0.5" toy gun designed to dispense toothpaste.

No word on cavity casualties.

"This is an opportunity for us to remind you that at no time should a student bring in or be in possession of any toy weapon or anything that could be mistaken as a weapon. This is critical to the safety and emotional well being of our students and staff."

Critical to the well being of staff....
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I gotta ask, does such an item even exist?
 
It’s a brilliant plan they have to completely and utterly demonize firearms and generations of people grow up in fear of them and stereotyping anyone who owns one as a lunatic. They’ll even ding a kid to the principal if he draws a gun from a game he plays. The UK has moved on to banning knives and hammers now. Once you have a generation of the masses who don’t know how to use a firearm, they’re defenseless even if they get their hands on one.

In HS in the 80’s I remember going through issues of guns and ammo that my friend brought to study hall with one of the science teachers who I recall loved revolvers and I always suspected had something in an ankle holster. I know he had a sick boot wknife that he called an Arkansas toothpick.

ETA: Get him one of these to take to class and he’ll get an award in courage from the school:

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DecOFlaherty said:
I got an email from the kids' school today. They successfully confiscated a 4 x 0.5" toy gun designed to dispense toothpaste.

No word on cavity casualties.

"This is an opportunity for us to remind you that at no time should a student bring in or be in possession of any toy weapon or anything that could be mistaken as a weapon. This is critical to the safety and emotional well being of our students and staff."

Critical to the well being of staff....
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Let me guess...you live inside 495?
 
In the Early 90s I had to miss recess for bringing in toy squirt guns to school. They were translucent plastic in a variety of colors and no way looked like any gun at the time. The anti-gun rhetoric is going to vary by school but isn’t a new phenomenon.
 
The school should be ridiculed massively for their policy that lacks any kind of common sense. It really is sad how much stupidity or weakness there is now. Kids will never believe there was a time when having a knife in your pocket or a shotgun in your car so you could go out hunting right after you got out of school was no big deal. :(
 
deerdad said:
The school should be ridiculed massively for their policy that lacks any kind of common sense. It really is sad how much stupidity or weakness there is now. Kids will never believe there was a time when having a knife in your pocket or a shotgun in your car so you could go out hunting right after you got out of school was no big deal. :(
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Zero tolerance policies have been in place in many places for over thirty years; I remember mandatory suspensions for pocketknives when I was in high school in the early nineties.

This was caused by a mix of people: helicopter parents, law-and-order conservatives, statists of both parties, lawyers...
 
Picton said:
Zero tolerance policies have been in place in many places for over thirty years; I remember mandatory suspensions for pocketknives when I was in high school in the early nineties.

This was caused by a mix of people: helicopter parents, law-and-order conservatives, statists of both parties, lawyers...
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In 1985 I took an "Outdoor Living" class in high school, several of us brought our guns (I brought a Remington 870 and a Ruger 10/22) to school one day for a firearms safety lesson and then the class went shooting after school. The guns were left on lab tables at the front of the classroom for the day, no trigger locks, etc., and nobody died or got hurt. That class was one of the most popular in high school, among other things during the winter months we would set up camps in the woods near the high school and cook wild game, etc. over the fire pits we made. We also went on a couple deep sea fishing trips, learned survival skills, fly tying, etc. Those were the days in more ways than one.
 
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Rockrivr1 said:
We used to have disc gun wars in school. Can you imagine the havoc that would cause today. The Horror!


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I got into a lot of trouble with those when I was a kid. My friends and I especially liked to shoot cars from bushes as they drove by the house until I shot the wrong car one day. It was a brand new burgundy Plymouth Volare, I'll never forget it, the lady stopped, got out of the car, grabbed me by the neck and dragged me to the door (we were right in front of my house) and proceeded to rip me and my mother new ones. That did not go over too well with my parents, I think my father burned the guns and all the disks (but my grandparents got me more a few weeks later 😁 , I was back in action again!).
 
Hell in the seventies we'd show up for homeroom just to figure out where we were going hunting for the day, then get back before last period.
With my trusty Mossberg 500 that I bought at Service Merchandise in Auburn on an FID card stashed in the car.
 
Thanks to a Rat, they took away my Chinese throwing star in junior high.

I got it back at the end of the day.

Back in the 70s of course you couldn't just order one from ninjasupplies .com. Is it ironic that it was originally found on the lawn at MIT?
 
mpmarino said:
Thanks to a Rat, they took away my Chinese throwing star in junior high.

I got it back at the end of the day.

Back in the 70s of course you couldn't just order one from ninjasupplies .com. Is it ironic that it was originally found on the lawn at MIT?
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I'm pretty sure "Trevor" from The Book had (at least) one with him throughout high school.

I know I always had my little Cub Scout pocket knife in my book bag. [grin]
 
The only way to fix nonsense like this and end the blue haired socialists is defunding the public school system and eliminating it completely. This way socialists can have their 'we're so inclusive it hurts' school and everyone else can have the 'I just want my kid to be smarter than the socialists with inflated grades' school.
 
Picton said:
This was caused by a mix of people: helicopter parents, law-and-order conservatives, statists of both parties, lawyers...
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I know some "law-and- order conservatives" who I consider to be a big part of the problem. When some new law gets enacted, usually by leftists, they whine about how bad the law is, how unconstitutional it is etc. Often times these are laws or regulations that are hard to enforce and or seldom enforced. The next thing I know is that these guys are abiding by those same laws and worse yet threatening to dime people out who are not complying. When I ask them why they are complying they say, "It's the law." Thank God these people were not a majority in 1776 or we'd never have had this country.
 
Woodsloafer said:
I got into a lot of trouble with those when I was a kid. My friends and I especially liked to shoot cars from bushes as they drove by the house until I shot the wrong car one day. It was a brand new burgundy Plymouth Volare, I'll never forget it, the lady stopped, got out of the car, grabbed me by the neck and dragged me to the door (we were right in front of my house) and proceeded to rip me and my mother new ones. That did not go over too well with my parents, I think my father burned the guns and all the disks (but my grandparents got me more a few weeks later 😁 , I was back in action again!).
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Did it have the Slant 6? My mother had a blue wagon. 😂
 
GaryO said:

View: https://youtu.be/OGS6dAxj_zM?si=ok3mUaf1ciWpn9nu
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So I guess my gym goal now is: cavity creep.

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The Crest Crew looks like some sort of gay disco band.

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Rockrivr1 said:
We used to have disc gun wars in school. Can you imagine the havoc that would cause today. The Horror!


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Rubber band wars at my first office job. Ricochets off the ceiling got the most points (and hurt a lot less). There was time I could bean you with a ricochet in the nose, left or right ear with a cubicle divider between us. I did need a glimpse to know where your head is at.

We banned eye shots early and eventually we were all so good we made the ricochet mandatory.

Good times, but the cleaning crew must have wondered why the place was always littered with rubber bands.
 
namedpipes said:
Rubber band wars at my first office job. Ricochets off the ceiling got the most points (and hurt a lot less). There was time I could bean you with a ricochet in the nose, left or right ear with a cubicle divider between us. I did need a glimpse to know where your head is at.

We banned eye shots early and eventually we were all so good we made the ricochet mandatory.

Good times, but the cleaning crew must have wondered why the place was always littered with rubber bands.
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Not dangerous enough.
EMT and wire nuts makes a great blow gun. Compressed air will assure pain. 😂
 
The year I spent at Michigan State doing grad work, I proceeded to piss off the entire department by bringing in my Nerf toys and instigating Nerf wars.

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IIRC my Halloween costume that year was Nerf Commando.
 

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