Oh my. How times have changed...

[Cobraman]

Back when I was a junior in HS a friend had a speech about different calibers of guns and asked me to bring things. I brought a 30-06, Win .30-30, .22 and a 12ga. Our teacher actually suggested we go out and shoot them. Took the entire classroom of 40+ into a field and shot shit the entire period.

That's wild. Bring a gun to school today and you won't see life from outside a cell for a while.

[SS Junk]

Back when I was a junior in HS a friend had a speech about different calibers of guns and asked me to bring things. I brought a 30-06, Win .30-30, .22 and a 12ga. Our teacher actually suggested we go out and shoot them. Took the entire classroom of 40+ into a field and shot shit the entire period.

[mschmoyer]

I was accused of plotting to bomb a school in middle school immediately after Columbine. I was the last kid in school to ever know how, or desire to play with explosives. Basically, we were designing a computer game and mine had a map of our middle school with extremely pixelated red cans of "coca cola" spread around the map. According to them those were bombs.

Got pulled into a conference room alone with police and district officials in the middle of a school day and questioned on whether I had ever tried to make a bomb. They sent me straight home and my parents had to bring me back to meet with dozens of officials and police to explain the game.

Ultimately I was found innocent of all of it but sent to ISS anyways to write a powerpoint about "why violent videogames are a bad idea". My teacher also got "ISS" and ended up in court with the school for them trying to interrogate him without representation. He let us sneak out of ISS and did the powerpoint for us (I don't think it was ever done).

This game was widely known around the school before Columbine. A teacher in the lab who played it a few times just literally sat up one day after Columbine and said "that kid's gonna kill us all!".

[Craizie]

In the event of societal meltdown, Americans will be lost waiting for the government to tell them what to do.

Bull shit! I'm going raping and pillaging.

[Sean88gt]

In the event of societal meltdown, Americans will be lost waiting for the government to tell them what to do.

[Jimbo]

Zero tolerance laws are the exact definition of mind without reason.
I remember the fit we threw when someone got suspended for borrowing a family members truck and not giving a second thought to the shotgun in the rear window.
No one at my school could figure out what the problem was, as we all had a rifle behind the seat, lol.

A personal favorite of mine was a small bag of aluminum cans in the bed of a truck, that had been there so long it had broken and a few were sun bleached on one side. That guy got an open container ticket for one of those being a beer can.

[Baron Von Crowder]

Well in that case everyone got off.

But there were other times when kids would get in trouble because of cigarette ashes in their ashtrays etc. Kids would share vehicles with their parents, the students wouldn't smoke(legit) but would get suspended for the cigarette ashes.

Complete BS.

They tried to get me to claim that I share my truck with my parents, and that they smoke, so that they could have them come sign an affidavit to that effect.

[FATHERFORD]

What sucks is what happens to the kids with no money/family in the same boat? Influence over-rode stupidity in this case, but otherwise who knows what would happen. (nothing good)

Well in that case everyone got off.

But there were other times when kids would get in trouble because of cigarette ashes in their ashtrays etc. Kids would share vehicles with their parents, the students wouldn't smoke(legit) but would get suspended for the cigarette ashes.

Complete BS.

[ceyko]

Ours tried to get several of us for spent shotgun shells in the bed of our pick-up. Put us in the back of squad cars, the works.

My father came up and was directly responsible for lots of scholarship/money grants for the school at the time.

Not sure what all was said, but i got a personal apology from the principle/on campus cops for their blatant stupidity.

What sucks is what happens to the kids with no money/family in the same boat? Influence over-rode stupidity in this case, but otherwise who knows what would happen. (nothing good)

[Binky]

Sheeeeet. I brought a compound bow with my broadheads to school for a speech class demonstration. Set a target up in the hall and fired a few down the hall during the school day.

[FATHERFORD]

Ours tried to get several of us for spent shotgun shells in the bed of our pick-up. Put us in the back of squad cars, the works.

My father came up and was directly responsible for lots of scholarship/money grants for the school at the time.

Not sure what all was said, but i got a personal apology from the principle/on campus cops for their blatant stupidity.

[racrguy]

Naaa that'd be senior year

Uh huh.

[Gtracer]

$2500 per acre out here and if you claim ag exemption taxes are like $12 a year. There is hope, you just have to be at your kid's school and talk to them.

Whats this I see, a ray of light from the end of the tunnel?

Yeah Texas land is EXPENSIVE, I have browsed the online listing prior to really getting into the idea and realized that texas is 200%-300% more expensive than our neighbors (OK, NM). I know a guy who bought 90 Acres in OK for $18k where as down here in TX it would run you around $200k.

[GrayStangGT]

They shut down an entire school here for 2 days because a kid brought some liquid mercury to school. Put 60 students/staff in full hazmat suits and bussed them to the hospital. According to my dad they played with mercury all the time as kids. He even commented when I told him about it "Well they should go check Henderson elementary because I dropped my jar of mercury on the play ground and it spilled everywhere, I was pissed."

http://www.newswest9.com/story/25005634/students-exposed-to-mercury-at-hood-junior-high-hazmat-officials

[line-em-up]

My school had a smoking/dipping tree and anyone could carry a hunting knife on their belt if they wanted to. Things have sure changed.