Are You More Homicidal Than This Alabama 5 Year Old?

[bondwooley]

Mobile, Alabama just pegged a crayon-wielding kindergartener as homicidal/suicidal manic. See if you can pass the test she had to take.

This week, school officials in Alabama put a 5-year-old girl on a suicide and homicide watch after she pointed a crayon at a kindergarten classmate and said “pew! pew!”

Yes, this is real. The 5-year-old, identified only as Elizabeth, is said to have drawn a picture resembling a gun before picking up the deadly crayon and going “pew! pew!” – which, in America, could mean that she’s a homicidal maniac!

The girl was then forced to sign a contract declaring that she pinky-promises not to kill herself or her classmates.

(Original post, sources and test at http://lesterandcharlie.com/2014/10/16/are-you-more-homicidal-than-this-alabama-5-year-old/)

[Lochloosa]

1. They would have put me in a padded room in a straight jacket if they saw what I shot at my brothers.

Ever heard of a spoke gun?

[Downwinder]

4. My cousins and I used try to drive each other off the dock

and into the water with July 4th sky rockets fired horizontally.

[arcane1]

6. That's new to me, but we did use matches and gunpowder from shotgun shells for various things.

[pinboy3niner]

7. We used a mortar and pestle to make our own gunpowder for use in homemade mortars

For a mortar tube we'd thread one end of a length of pipe to take a threaded cap in which we drilled a hole to allow a fuse to protrude.

[scrubthedata]

8. In my family

We never got past Spud Guns.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. I don't actually believe them about the test being real.

Their choices for 'correct' answers included things like wanting a field trip to Auschwitz. Not only would that NOT mark you as not being homicidal or suicidal, it's in really poor taste.

[bondwooley]

3. if you think that's crazy

check out their recipe for canned whipped cream.

http://lesterandcharlie.com/2014/09/06/video-make-your-own-canned-whipped-cream/

[scrubthedata]

5. I didn't pass.

That's good, right?

[fayhunter]

9. There are a lot of reasons for educators to take extra precautions

I'd rather see them err on the side of safety.

When one looks at school security, they certainly have a lot of lessons to learn.