31 Replies to ““We have a hostage situation””

  2. If we ban peanut butter then only criminals will have peanut butter.
    btw, it was a stupid thing for the idiot to do but banning pb&j will not make the perp any smarter.

  3. “Parents of the victim were not wanting criminal charges filed, but the school wanted something done.”
    Decree a zero tolerance of goobers policy.

  5. In a story like this, I like to examine the home life of the troublemaker. I note that his mother was 16 when he was born, that her surname is different than his and that he is living with his grandmother because he and his mother are not getting along. His mother’s statement that he “shuts down” when confronted with something he has done wrong indicates an unwillingness to accept personal responsibility for his actions. There is no mention of a father or any male figure in either his mother’s or grandmother’s home.
    There is probably just a little more going on with this story than what the police report states. A young man like this has probably been in trouble with school authorities before and this (presumed) history is the likely motivation for the school pursuing the charges. It is also the probable reason for the principle expelling the troublemaker.
    On a lighter note, I wonder if it was smooth or crunchy peanut butter.

  10. So we now arrest people for nothing happening. This is even better than OPP arresting people who might become victims of a crime!

  11. It’s banned in the schools here.
    They’ve banned bottled water as well.
    Soon all the kids will be allowed are lattes and low fat tofu.
    It won’t matter anyways, Duceppe says all the 14 year olds will be in jail.
    I’d say put them all in the army at 18 to grow them up.
    Wait, that won’t work either, we would have to start with a lot of the parents first.

  12. I don’t now what to think about this.
    Brent’s speculations were exactly what came to my mind when I read the story and it is such a typical occurrence in schools now. Allergic to dust? Jimmy will blow it in her face. Allergic to perfume? 3 girls will wait and douse him with it when he comes around the corner. Kids find it entertaining to make someone sick or uncomfortable.
    Jail time is obviously “inappropriate” but the irony here is that the school would never be able to successfully punish for this type of action. An action that would easily leave other students feeling vulnerable. Particularly if this student happened to have some social clout and was poised to start a trend.
    Which is most likely why administration is trying to send a message by involving the police.
    This wouldn’t have happened if it was possible to get an F on a report card and if the principal’s office held any real threat.

  13. Back in the good old days, there was an absolute authority that everyone was scared of. And that authority delivered the strap to those that dared break a rule. And FEAR did a fantastic job in the formation of functioning adult members of society. The carrot and the stick are diametrically opposed forms motivation, but BOTH are needed. If that dumbass had some instinctual fear of bad consequences, he might have paused and rethought his actions.

  16. Yeah, laugh it up. Funny to everyone unless you have severe allergic reactions to something. I have a bad reaction to nuts but it is not fatal if I make mistake. You have to watch everything you eat and then some still sneaks by and can ruin your day.
    In the case of those who have peanut allergies it is far worse as virtually anything can be cooked in peanut oil. Some allergies are so severe that someone can die. Death by sandwich is still death. Are we still laughing?

  17. Yea, Earl, I am with you on this one. Some may desire to trivialize it, but this is a serious threat to those with allergic reactions (thankfully I am not included).
    What would be an appropriate response to the peanut butter smearer in this situation? What if the allergic boy had died, or had a serious reaction? Should that have changed the response?

  18. An action that would easily leave other students feeling vulnerable.
    Well we can’t have that, they might grow up to be conservative, so the Berkely study claims.
    Joking aside, peanut (and other) alergies can be deadly, so the attack, although it seems trivial, is serious. If the outcome had been a dead or severly ill pupil, the charges would have to be equally as serious. Just because they all walked away unscathed, does diminish the seriousness of the action.

  19. It was self defence. The other kid pulled a banana on him.
    BTW, Ghost of Ed wins the thread.

  20. Good God,don’t jump…the boy stood on the ledge
    An old man who had fainted was revived
    And everyone agreed t’would be a miracle indeed…if the boy survived.
    “Save the life of my child”,cried the desperate mother.”Oh what’s becoming of the children”
    People asking each other.
    A patrol car passing by halted to a stop
    Said Officer McDougall in dismay
    “The force can’t do a decent job ’cause the kids got no respect for the law today”…and blah,blah,blah
    “Save the life of my totally cocooned child”,cried the desperate single mother.
    Oh what’s becoming of the next generation? spiritually and materially misdirected people ask one another.
    (with appologies to Paul Simon’s song,circa 1968)

  22. The perp is 19 years, and still in high school? Can you say “arrested development?” I knew you could.
    Face it, this would be immature behavior if it had been done by a 12-year old. I could see it happening amongst second-graders, maybe.
    But the real social breakdown here is the fact that the police were called in to deal with it. If the victim’s classmates had simply dragged the perp out into the parking lot and beaten the crap out of him, that would have been the end of it. A lesson learned, and a victim avenged.

  23. Earl the Pearl, as long as Canada remains a free and democratic country (which won’t be long, apparently), I reserve the right to laugh at anything that I want to and choose to find humour in whatever misery I see.
    Attempted murder is bad, but I can still find humour in it. If I can find humour in my OWN severe illness, I can find humour in smearing peanut butter on an allergic’s forehead.
    It’s called dark humour. Spare me the tsk-tsking.

  24. “Put down that sandwich and come out with your hands up! ”
    You ARE funny.
    And, God knows, we need things to smile about.

  25. Eeyore, thank you for helping me to understand the protocol – if the owner of the blog opens a serious subject with a humourous title, that’s the signal for “dark humour” and guests who break the protocol by responding in a serious vein are “tsk-tsking”.

  26. My little brother is deathly allergic to peanuts. Rubbing it on his forhead would be enough to kill him if he can’t get an epi pen and a tracheotomy quickly enough. As kids, we used to chase him with peanut butter sandwiches, because we thought it was funny. We ended up having a 2 hour sit down session with my mother who made us plan our last goodbyes to him and discuss what we would miss about him when he died. We never did it again. Nor did we ban peanut butter in the house or at school.
    I think what the boy did was stupid and dangerous. I hope that by his age, the consequenses of his actions scare him back to humanity.
    One of the things that coddling our children does, is it prevents them from understanding what death and suffering really are. If they never see it or experience it, they are less likely to respect it.

  29. It would have been funnier if the kid’s face broke out like hamburger, eh? Or if they got to stick the kid with the epi pen and cart him out on a shutter, turning blue. Attending the funeral would have been a riot.
    BTW, schools are already peanut free. That means they banned it. Some kids died. Like, plural.
    Not absolutely EVERYTHING the schools do is pointless and retarded my friends. These nut allergies are very serious sh1t. Paying attention to what’s actually life threatening is getting harder all the time since everything is treated as an emergency/crisis/end-of-the-world, but nut allergies kill people all the time.
    Pay attention. Don’t send peanut butter sandwiches to school.

  30. Given one of my husband’s colleagues died of a reaction to peanut exposure, I am less than impressed with some of the reactions to the story. Further, how well would those respondants react to having their faces smeared with ANYTHING against their will?

  31. Given one of my husband’s colleagues died of a reaction to peanut exposure, I am less than impressed with some of the reactions to the story. Further, how well would those respondants react to having their faces smeared with ANYTHING against their will?

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