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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 08:38 AM Original message |
Eagle Scout Suspended For Keeping 2-Inch Knife In Car |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
1. Hopefully West Point will look over his application and school records and |
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TheMadMonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:57 AM Response to Reply #1 |
39. Why would they? Competition for entry is so heavy (I would presume)... |
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atreides1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 08:42 AM Response to Original message |
2. The results of Broad Brush mentality. |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 08:45 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. And people drawing a paycheck for not using their brains and judgment. nt |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:00 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. My sister is a an educator |
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peace13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:09 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Coming to a school near you...Kids not allowed to have gasoline in their cars while on campus! |
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prole_for_peace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:20 AM Response to Reply #12 |
19. Hey those binder are dangerous... |
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MidwestRick (604 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:59 AM Response to Reply #19 |
41. Not to mention |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 11:06 AM Response to Reply #12 |
47. You forgot about shoelaces - they could become a garrotte! |
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dhpgetsit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:11 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. I can remember kids playing "stretch" with knives in the playground. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:37 AM Response to Reply #13 |
28. With the ban on knives for the past 20+ years, I wonder if kids today |
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conscious evolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 10:14 AM Response to Reply #28 |
43. We called it suicide for some reason |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:41 AM Response to Reply #13 |
29. When I was very young |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 08:44 AM Response to Original message |
3. You're overlooking the power of the tire iron lobby |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 08:47 AM Response to Original message |
5. he don noes it but this prolly increases his odds for acceptence into WP |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
6. This is an example of "zero tolerance" gone wild. Nothing is tolerated. |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:16 AM Response to Reply #6 |
16. My biggest wake-up call was a giant F |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:31 AM Response to Reply #16 |
25. My giant F was in 11th grade English. For the junior theme paper |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
7. Hasn't the school administration ever watched Red Dawn? |
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peace13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:01 AM Response to Original message |
9. I guess if you get trapped in the car and your seat belt won't release... |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:04 AM Response to Original message |
10. Camp stove + water bottle + bandana + matches = potential Molotov cocktail |
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negativenihil (772 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:04 AM Response to Original message |
11. As a scout... |
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conscious evolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:23 AM Response to Reply #11 |
20. Pocket knife card?WTF!! |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:43 AM Response to Reply #20 |
31. We called it the tote badge |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:57 AM Response to Reply #31 |
40. Our troop calls it their "whittling chip." There may be more to it than that but that's what mine |
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negativenihil (772 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:46 AM Response to Reply #20 |
33. Yup! |
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negativenihil (772 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:49 AM Response to Reply #20 |
36. ah ha! |
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seemunkee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 10:40 AM Response to Reply #20 |
45. Tote'N Chip |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:48 AM Response to Reply #11 |
35. When I was a scout |
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negativenihil (772 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:51 AM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Wow! |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 11:01 AM Response to Reply #11 |
46. When I was a cub scout Webelo I got my knife by buying it at the PX. |
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BuyingThyme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:13 AM Response to Original message |
14. This is fucking crazy. |
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BuyingThyme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:16 AM Response to Original message |
15. And where's the NRA when you finally find a reason for them to make a false |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
17. Pocket knife is a tool in the hands of a Scout, not a weapon. Case closed. Suspend the |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:27 AM Response to Reply #17 |
23. California knife laws are much better than those of most states |
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Buzz Clik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
18. I understand he also was storing a highly flammable and potentially explosive liquid in his car. |
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MindPilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:24 AM Response to Original message |
21. Jeeeze, they are overlooking the obvious: the car is the REAL weapon. |
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nebenaube (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
22. Every goat-roper I went to HS with |
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MindPilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:33 AM Response to Reply #22 |
26. Yup |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:30 AM Response to Original message |
24. I carried a folding Buck knife with a 4.75" blade openly on my belt every day in high school |
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MindPilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:35 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Hence the nomenclature, "POCKET knife" eom |
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FourScore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:41 AM Response to Original message |
30. this is bullshit. |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:44 AM Response to Original message |
32. Zero tolerance is an excuse not to think. |
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MajorChode (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 10:19 AM Response to Reply #32 |
44. I can understand why they do it |
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Moondog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:47 AM Response to Original message |
34. And educators wonder |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 02:20 PM Response to Reply #34 |
48. God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
38. I carry one on me 24/7 and have dozens in my house and car. |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 02:29 PM Response to Reply #38 |
49. hell i carry two gerbers on my person at all times, also my glock |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 03:53 PM Response to Reply #49 |
50. I would have brought a U.S. Army tank to show-and-tell |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 05:25 PM Response to Reply #50 |
51. lol yup i get what you mean, ive always been around weapons, whether that was an old bolt action |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-20-09 10:05 AM Response to Original message |
42. that's a bit ridiculous |
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