Kids Arrested for Violent Drawing

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Students Arrested Over 'Violent' Stick Figure Drawings
Pictures Show Classmate Being Stabbed, Hung

POSTED: 1:40 am EST January 26, 2005
UPDATED: 3:07 pm EST January 26, 2005

OCALA, Fla. -- Two boys, ages 9 and 10, were charged with felonies and taken away from school in handcuffs, accused of making violent drawings of stick figures.

The boys were arrested Monday on charges of making a written threat to kill or harm another person, a second-degree felony.

The special education students used pencil and red crayon to draw primitive stick figure scenes on scrap paper that showed a 10-year-old classmate being stabbed and hung, police said.
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"The officer found they were drawing these pictures for the sole purpose of intimidating and scaring the victim," said Ocala Police Sgt. Russ Kern.

The boy depicted in the drawings told his teacher, who took the sketches and contacted the school dean, Marty Clifford. Clifford called police, who arrested the boys after consulting with the State Attorney's Office.

They were also suspended from school.

One drawing showed the two boys standing on either side of the other boy and "holding knives pointed through" his body, according to a police report. The figures were identified by written names or initials.

Another drawing showed a stick figure hanging, tears falling from his eyes, with two other stick figures standing below him. Other pieces of scrap paper listed misspelled profanities and the initials of the boy who was allegedly threatened.

Parents of both of the arrested boys said they thought the boys should be punished by the school and families, not the legal system.

Ocala police said they stand behind the decision to arrest the children.

"When an adult or even myself look at the picture looked at it at first I was thinking there is really not much to the picture or I would not be that scared by the picture those children drew," Ocala police spokesman Russ Kearn said. "However, we have to put ourselves in his mind and that's the bottom line here. It is his well-being and the way he perceived that picture to be. It actually put him in extreme fear and he was in fear for his life."

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[futurepilot2004]

Now thats just stupid

[Fee Fi Fo Fum]

I drawn more graphic pictures of my english teacher getting killed!

[Digital Marine]

I drawn more graphic pictures of my english teacher getting killed!


rofl rofl

[Stormy]

:lol: arrested for that, Damn. We use to draw GI-Stick-Figures in combat all the time..

But it's still pretty gruesome to draw something like that of a classmate. I wonder what those little rats had in mind

[Fee Fi Fo Fum]

http://images.ibsys.com/2005/0126/4131790.jpg

Notice the way they zoom in on the blood to get the old women scared.... typical.

[Stormy]

rofl Ain't nothing much going on in Marion county dats why ;)

But damn, Still, To arrest some kids over that.. shiiiT! p-)

[lunatic2T2]

Special ed kids at that,i.e. semi-retarded.

[Zoomie]

The only thing that really makes this bad is there are names associated with the stick figures, that's generally a sign they need help. A similar thing happened in South Florida 1~2 years ago where a junior higher brutally murdered a fellow classmate in a bathroom with a knife, and there were warning signs and all with the same kind of simple drawings and rantings though.

[Eat a bullet]

I used to tutor some special ed kids when I was in high school and those pics are nothing compaired to what i've seen. :)

[usm2b]

geez.....louise....I cant beleive(perfect oppurtunity to use :cantbeli: ) this stupic bullsh*t. Gawd, schools are becoming like nazi germany....gawddamn nazi schoolboards!!!!

[Herrmannek]

Damn you should get some proprtions... They are fukkin 9years old...

[Sayeret]

odd story

[Scrim]

I hope they Tasered those kids again. :cantbeli:

[Ratamacue]

I had to go to counseling at my school and serve 5 hours of community service after drawing a picture of a Beretta in the middle of class. The counselor at school agreed it was a load of **** and they never actually made me do the service. :P

[Haiw]

I had to go to counseling at my school and serve 5 hours of community service after drawing a picture of a Beretta in the middle of class. The counselor at school agreed it was a load of **** and they never actually made me do the service. :P
rofl rofl rofl
Damn that's really really retarded. :lol:

[Herrmannek]

I had to go to counseling at my school and serve 5 hours of community service after drawing a picture of a Beretta in the middle of class. The counselor at school agreed it was a load of **** and they never actually made me do the service. :P
wow, in your school i had to clean everything with the tethbrush..I painted only guns, armor and war and hell i was never noting :)

[2Sheds_Jackson]

I had to go to counseling at my school and serve 5 hours of community service after drawing a picture of a Beretta in the middle of class. The counselor at school agreed it was a load of **** and they never actually made me do the service. :P
rofl rofl rofl
Damn that's really really retarded. :lol:

In 5th grade I drew a picture of a race car (my dad worked the pits) and it had a fire extinguisher strapped to the roll cage. They sent me to a psychologist to deal with my "abnormal fear of being burned to death". My parents had to educate my teacher, counselor, principal and the psychologist as to what's inside a race car before they'd let up (2 weeks of counseling). Never assume that those in academia have any freaking clue as to what the world is like outside of their classroom.

[noggs]

I got suspended for 3 days for drawing a pic of killing my teacher with a m1 abrams

[Abolith]

I was suspended in HS for drawing Medival weaponry (I had an entire drawing book of the stuff, armor, bows, swords ect..) they thought I was planning some sort of killing spree. :cantbeli:
My mom really belittled the school prinicple and counsler in front of every one, something along the lines of Oooooh look it's a DRAWING! OMG what will we do? it's the end of the world! he's goingt o kill us all with a drawing!!

I got a 2 week vaction out if that :lol:

[Herrmannek]

Are polish schools only ones that doesn't give a ****?

[Abolith]

Are polish schools only ones that doesn't give a ****?

yes, I do belive so.

[Haiw]

Are polish schools only ones that doesn't give a ****?

yes, I do belive so.
Nope, the Dutch schools don't really give a flying **** either. :D

[Hullebullen]

I remember I used to draw guns and stuff during math class in high school (hate math). My math teacher (old ex-soldier) and me used to discuss the pros and cons of different guns and then he would remind me to pay more attention to the math... :lol:

[Vance]

I got suspended in middle school for fighting. Can you beileve that ****? :cantbeli:


Oh wait.

[-Jack-]

I got suspended for 3 days for drawing a pic of killing my teacher with a m1 abrams

Probably coz it should have been a Challenger :P

Seriously though, why the hell would a teacher call the police just from that ?

lol and can you imagine the radio call in the police car :roll: must have thought it was a joke.

[Herrmannek]

I don't think we have suspension penalty here..nefver heard somoen was suspended and people do many more dirastic things than painting

[Pandy]

I remember drawing some type of gun on all my homework (near my name) and never had anything 'bad' done to me. Thou, my social studies teacher told me that my M16A1 was pretty good and throught I should draw a larger one and enter it into the schools drawing contest... I really think he wanted to get me in trouble... :|

[wiking]

rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl

Bloody paranoid yanks.

We used to draw pictures like that in class too.
Had a full out war with a mate once. I mean, what else is there to do.
I don't like teachers, bloody wankers who don't know **** and try to beat it into your head, they never did anything for me to have any fomr of respect for their occupation. All they do is bitch about their pay.

[Eat a bullet]

I used to draw all that **** with no problems as well, but that was before Columbine. Now they're all extra paranoid.

[Opening Batsman]

Jeez, me and my mates in primary school spent hours in class drawing STICKMAN WARS!!!! as we called them. :) It was great, it was ANZACs, Poms and Yanks against Japan, Germany and Russia. No prizes for guessing who always won. ;)

[wormie]

I got in trouble in 7th grade for drawing a stickman with a knife on my math assignment. The teacher said it was a "direct threat" from me against her. :roll:

[Vance]

I got in trouble in 7th grade for drawing a stickman with a knife on my math assignment. The teacher said it was a "direct threat" from me against her. :roll:
She was probably Mexican, that's why :lol:

[lunatic2T2]

In 2nd grade I was sent to the principals office for telling my teacher that another name for "donkey" was "jackass". I told the bitch in the form of a question so she knew the answer was coming, and she still sent me to the office to get paddled.

[Jack Mehoff]

I got suspended for 3 days for drawing a pic of killing my teacher with a m1 abrams

Probably coz it should have been a Challenger :P

Seriously though, why the hell would a teacher call the police just from that ?

lol and can you imagine the radio call in the police car :roll: must have thought it was a joke.

What is it with people taking pics of themselves without the shirt on? We have women and children here :bash:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=6500
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/images/avatars/84326664641f81a17b0356.jpg

Oh wait .... :lol:

[usm2b]

Jeez, me and my mates in primary school spent hours in class drawing STICKMAN WARS!!!! as we called them. :) It was great, it was ANZACs, Poms and Yanks against Japan, Germany and Russia. No prizes for guessing who always won. ;)

Auzzie....cmon now you know the team that team with the yanks on it always wins. ;) p-)

[memphiz]

One time in my Social Studies class me and a friend were asked to draw what a farming method back in 1800 looked liked on the blackboard. SO we started out drawing it, then we added the teacher in and made her an Indian, then we had a shark jumping out of the river and biting her head off....she told us to sit down and told us we couldnt draw no more :(

[Opening Batsman]

Jeez, me and my mates in primary school spent hours in class drawing STICKMAN WARS!!!! as we called them. :) It was great, it was ANZACs, Poms and Yanks against Japan, Germany and Russia. No prizes for guessing who always won. ;)

Auzzie....cmon now you know the team that team with the yanks on it always wins. ;) p-)

Get stuffed, it was always the Aussies who were dodging bullets and throwing grenades and taking out tanks with a single punch and picking up the ladies (hang on, we were a bit too young then) and winning Victoria Crosses and and raising the Aussie flag over enemy fortresses! The Yanks and Poms and Kiwis were generally the ones who died en masse just to show we weren't biased towards the Allies while the Aussies took all the glory.
rofl

[usm2b]

Jeez, me and my mates in primary school spent hours in class drawing STICKMAN WARS!!!! as we called them. :) It was great, it was ANZACs, Poms and Yanks against Japan, Germany and Russia. No prizes for guessing who always won. ;)

Auzzie....cmon now you know the team that team with the yanks on it always wins. ;) p-)

Get stuffed, it was always the Aussies who were dodging bullets and throwing grenades and taking out tanks with a single punch and picking up the ladies (hang on, we were a bit too young then) and winning Victoria Crosses and and raising the Aussie flag over enemy fortresses! The Yanks and Poms and Kiwis were generally the ones who died en masse just to show we weren't biased towards the Allies while the Aussies took all the glory.
rofl

AUZZZIE!!!!! my friend you are sadly mistaken, but that flag you saw flying over the enemy fortress was actually an american flag.

you see this is an american flag
http://www.grafixshoppe.com/work/american%20flag.jpg
Im sorry to have to deliver such a heartbraking blow to you :( but, all these years and you though the aussies were the one's being victorious...all these years.

cheer up though mate, Im sure you guys helped us in some of those victories p-)

[Opening Batsman]

Jeez, me and my mates in primary school spent hours in class drawing STICKMAN WARS!!!! as we called them. :) It was great, it was ANZACs, Poms and Yanks against Japan, Germany and Russia. No prizes for guessing who always won. ;)

Auzzie....cmon now you know the team that team with the yanks on it always wins. ;) p-)

Get stuffed, it was always the Aussies who were dodging bullets and throwing grenades and taking out tanks with a single punch and picking up the ladies (hang on, we were a bit too young then) and winning Victoria Crosses and and raising the Aussie flag over enemy fortresses! The Yanks and Poms and Kiwis were generally the ones who died en masse just to show we weren't biased towards the Allies while the Aussies took all the glory.
rofl

AUZZZIE!!!!! my friend you are sadly mistaken, but that flag you saw flying over the enemy fortress was actually an american flag.

you see this is an american flag
http://www.grafixshoppe.com/work/american%20flag.jpg
Im sorry to have to deliver such a heartbraking blow to you :( but, all these years and you though the aussies were the one's being victorious...all these years.

cheer up though mate, Im sure you guys helped us in some of those victories p-)

But the part about picking up the women proves you wrong, as if a chick would pick a Yank over a glorious bronzed muscular Aussie! So, my friend, I am afraid that it really was the Aussies who were the best at everything.
;)

[MEGR]

I've drawn guns and war stuff all the time during my childhood. Nothing happened to me fortunately.

[MEGR]

Jeez, me and my mates in primary school spent hours in class drawing STICKMAN WARS!!!! as we called them. :) It was great, it was ANZACs, Poms and Yanks against Japan, Germany and Russia. No prizes for guessing who always won. ;)

Auzzie....cmon now you know the team that team with the yanks on it always wins. ;) p-)

Get stuffed, it was always the Aussies who were dodging bullets and throwing grenades and taking out tanks with a single punch and picking up the ladies (hang on, we were a bit too young then) and winning Victoria Crosses and and raising the Aussie flag over enemy fortresses! The Yanks and Poms and Kiwis were generally the ones who died en masse just to show we weren't biased towards the Allies while the Aussies took all the glory.
rofl

AUZZZIE!!!!! my friend you are sadly mistaken, but that flag you saw flying over the enemy fortress was actually an american flag.

you see this is an american flag
http://www.grafixshoppe.com/work/american%20flag.jpg
Im sorry to have to deliver such a heartbraking blow to you :( but, all these years and you though the aussies were the one's being victorious...all these years.

cheer up though mate, Im sure you guys helped us in some of those victories p-)

But the part about picking up the women proves you wrong, as if a chick would pick a Yank over a glorious bronzed muscular Aussie! So, my friend, I am afraid that it really was the Aussies who were the best at everything.
;)

Not at MMA. I couldn't name one good Aussie MMA fighter.

[usa320]

****, in my elementary school we used to play with GI Joes durring playtime, hell we would all bring in our spring action missile launchers and compare eachother's range and marksmanship... They never kicked me outta school... People are just to pussified these days...

[Opening Batsman]

Jeez, me and my mates in primary school spent hours in class drawing STICKMAN WARS!!!! as we called them. :) It was great, it was ANZACs, Poms and Yanks against Japan, Germany and Russia. No prizes for guessing who always won. ;)

Auzzie....cmon now you know the team that team with the yanks on it always wins. ;) p-)

Get stuffed, it was always the Aussies who were dodging bullets and throwing grenades and taking out tanks with a single punch and picking up the ladies (hang on, we were a bit too young then) and winning Victoria Crosses and and raising the Aussie flag over enemy fortresses! The Yanks and Poms and Kiwis were generally the ones who died en masse just to show we weren't biased towards the Allies while the Aussies took all the glory.
rofl

AUZZZIE!!!!! my friend you are sadly mistaken, but that flag you saw flying over the enemy fortress was actually an american flag.

you see this is an american flag
http://www.grafixshoppe.com/work/american%20flag.jpg
Im sorry to have to deliver such a heartbraking blow to you :( but, all these years and you though the aussies were the one's being victorious...all these years.

cheer up though mate, Im sure you guys helped us in some of those victories p-)

But the part about picking up the women proves you wrong, as if a chick would pick a Yank over a glorious bronzed muscular Aussie! So, my friend, I am afraid that it really was the Aussies who were the best at everything.
;)

Not at MMA. I couldn't name one good Aussie MMA fighter.

Probably because we don't care about it! What the hell is it? :P

[Operation Ivy]

One time in my Social Studies class me and a friend were asked to draw what a farming method back in 1800 looked liked on the blackboard. SO we started out drawing it, then we added the teacher in and made her an Indian, then we had a shark jumping out of the river and biting her head off....she told us to sit down and told us we couldnt draw no more :(

hahaha thats great...good times :D

[Baltic]

I can't believe that you had problems i your schools just for drawings... In my school we were used to make smoke bombs out of tennis balls and to throw them in the girls changing rooms :) I'm not speaking about drawings...

[Fargin]

Hah ha, a few years in the slammer will teach them! woot

[Moledet]

LOL.
Ofcourse the other child was scared, when you are a kid you are afraid that anything will get you killed.

I got scissors thrown at me and stuck in my jaw, still they did nothing to the other child, even though he threw it at me on purpose.

[EffJi]

I drew a very graphic drawing of a teacher getting his head blown off.
The only one who got mad was his son, he was sitting in front of me.
I didn't say who the drawing depicted, I didn't have to.

[ßå$tĮТHÏ¿ð]

:lol: funny ****

[11F5S]

Damn you should get some proprtions... They are fukkin 9years old...

Yes they are and 9 year olds have been committing violent crimes including murder. Would you suggest that authorities just pass this off as kids play and wait till they murder their classmate?

The actions of these boys go way beyond the responsibilities of the school system.

[11F5S]

rofl Ain't nothing much going on in Marion county dats why;)


That's about on par with what's going on in your head.

[Trigger]

Depending on the details of this situation, like whether there is some kind of pre-existing conflict between the kids, I don't know if it warranted an actual arrest.

Suspension yes. You don't want to just ignore those kinds of signs. Not anymore, and I agree that it's not 'just the school's responsibility'.

[BlackFlag]

Damn you should get some proprtions... They are fukkin 9years old...

Yes they are and 9 year olds have been committing violent crimes including murder. Would you suggest that authorities just pass this off as kids play and wait till they murder their classmate?

The actions of these boys go way beyond the responsibilities of the school system. you've got to be ****ting me :cantbeli:

[wiking]

Damn you should get some proprtions... They are fukkin 9years old...

Yes they are and 9 year olds have been committing violent crimes including murder. Would you suggest that authorities just pass this off as kids play and wait till they murder their classmate?

The actions of these boys go way beyond the responsibilities of the school system. you've got to be ****ting me :cantbeli:

I think he forgot the tag.
Atleast i hope he did.

[simple jumper]

Anyone up for playing "hangman"? woot

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[Violet Fashion by Mindy]

I think the kids should be sent to counselling.

What i'm more concerned about is that if a conviction is recorded it could set a dangoures precedent.

Who is to say that lobby groups could use this as a way to stop art that depicts violence, erotic art etc?

Take my Avatar for example. If these kids do end up being convicted what is to stop say a right wing religious group from taking the producer to court and have him charged for depicting violence against women?

I know this case and morality in art are two different things but the fact remains that legal proceedings against these two kids could give grounds for nut case lobby groups ammunition in their never ending pursuit to rid the art world of depicting violence.

Think about it. It's happened before unrelated cases being used as a argument in a court of law.

[cchccrowder]

1st through 3rd grade was spent drawing stick figure wars.. some days it would ww2.. others ww1, others civil way type stuff or napoleonic. then id get boring and id draw space ships and jet packs.. then it would be a mix, then it would go back to the old stuff. haha and i never got in trouble for any of it.. even when i drew pictures of stick figures testing out machine guns on another group of stickfigures "in masse" charging the nest. haha good times.

-cchccrowder

[Haiw]

I remember being so bored sometimes (when I was about 9 or so I think) that I made a paper aircraft carrier for folded paper planes. :lol:

[usm2b]

BS

[Options465]

:roll:

[11F5S]

Damn you should get some proprtions... They are fukkin 9years old...

Yes they are and 9 year olds have been committing violent crimes including murder. Would you suggest that authorities just pass this off as kids play and wait till they murder their classmate?

The actions of these boys go way beyond the responsibilities of the school system. you've got to be ****ting me :cantbeli:

Care to expound on the reason that you believe I''ve got to ****ting you?

[11F5S]

I remember being so bored sometimes (when I was about 9 or so I think) that I made a paper aircraft carrier for folded paper planes. :lol:

That must be hard to do with one finger stuck in the dyke. :)

[Haiw]

I remember being so bored sometimes (when I was about 9 or so I think) that I made a paper aircraft carrier for folded paper planes. :lol:

That must be hard to do with one finger stuck in the dyke. :)
Well after a while I wisened up and outsourced the 'finger in the dyke'-job to a girl. Figured that would work out better. ;)

[<Gypsum Fantastic>]

Jeez, me and my mates in primary school spent hours in class drawing STICKMAN WARS!!!! as we called them. :) It was great, it was ANZACs, Poms and Yanks against Japan, Germany and Russia. No prizes for guessing who always won. ;)

Germans? ;)

[Fargin]

We always draw on the tables instead.