selectparks - Teenager suspended for making map of schoolgrounds.

An interesting chapter in the people-don't-kill-people-games-do-witch-hunt..

A Clements school, Fort Bend, teenager was removed from campus for making a map (think level) of the school ground so that his friends could play on it. Parents complained to administrators, investigators were brought in, and the boy was suspended from school. He's now detained elsewhere while they get to the bottom of his sprawling plot.

“They decided he was a terroristic threat,” said one source close to the district’s investigation.

In his room they found a hammer, which he had used previously to fix his bed. The hammer is now being retained as evidence on the basis of it being a potential weapon. If it was a crowbar, then they'd have this case sewed up. Kids these days, sheesh!

The original article is here.

You might want to check out the comments, they reveal plenty more than the article will. Of significance is the timing of the investigation (the kids map was being played for two months before the Virginia Tech tragedy) and that he's of Chinese blood. Perhaps a little first-glance racial profiling going on there..