9 year old busted for bringing 2 inch LEGO toy gun to school.

[Corrderio]

Found this on FFXI DATs, too good not to post.

An irate Staten Island mom blasted a grade school principal Wednesday for treating her son like a pint-sized Plaxico Burress after he brought a 2-inch-long toy gun to school.

"This principal is a bully and a coward, and needs to be held accountable," said Laura Timoney, 44, after her teary fourth-grader was nearly suspended for playing with the tiny toy at lunch.

"The school should be embarrassed. This is a common-sense issue."

Patrick Timoney, 9, was terrified when he was yanked into the principal's office to discuss the teeny-weeny plastic "weapon."

"The gun was so little," the boy said. "I don't understand why the principal got so upset. I was a little nervous. They made me sign a statement."

Patrick and a friend were playing with Lego figures in the school cafeteria on Tuesday when he pulled out the faux machine gun and stuck it in the hands of his plastic police officer.

Boom! Trouble ensued, with Patrick's mom getting a phone call from Public School 52 Principal Evelyn Mastroianni saying her son had somehow gone from straight A's to the NRA.

"I was in disbelief," the still-fuming mother said. "Why didn't anyone step up with an ounce of common sense and put an end to the harassment of my child?"

Timoney said her boy loved the toy figure because her husband is a retired police officer.

The elder Patrick Timoney, a former 72nd Precinct cop, couldn't believe his son was nearly busted over something so obviously inauthentic.

"It's a 2-inch gun," he said. "She went overboard. She should have said, 'Put the toys away,' and that would have been the end of it."

After a meeting between the principal and the parents, the boy was spared any disciplinary action. City school officials said Patrick agreed to leave the "gun" at home.

"I'm never bringing a toy to school again," said Patrick, whose favorite subject is math.

Laura Timoney remained upset. Her son, a typically eager student, asked to stay home yesterday because he thought the principal was mad at him.

The mother said she expects an apology and may sue.

"The toy gun is not the issue," she said. "A lack of common sense is the issue."

Several parents at the school felt the principal overreacted, including Kim O'Rieley - whose son was playing with Patrick in the cafeteria.

Her boy's Lego man was toting a tiny ax, which the principal deemed less threatening.

"It's ridiculous," said O'Rieley, 36. "He felt so bad for his friend. They're taking things way too far ... No one is saying guns are okay.

"Come on, it's a Lego."

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/...son_buste.html

Seriously.... are they fucking kidding?

Also before it gets derailed into it... yes the principal isn't much of a looker.

[Not Kuno]

old



also the principal was retarded but thats not really news is it

[Baelorn]

Commonsense has no place in the public school system...all parents should know this.

[Corrderio]

old

GFDI...

[Cleverness]

This is old, and we have enough topics in general about stupid people running schools that it's painfully obvious the Dept. of Education is run by monkeys.

[Colenzo]

this thread isnt funny, my brother died like that

[Pirian]

The mother said she expects an apology and may sue.

What?

Sure, they may went a little overboard but the kid needs to learn it one way or another. I bet you he won't be bringing any guns to school now. He doesn't deserve an apology, and the mother needs to get the fuck over herself to think he does

When I was a little kid I got stopped trying to bring a toy gun on an airplane (way before 9/11). It was obviously a toy, but it doesn't matter. And guess what? That was the first, and last, time I brought a toy gun where I wasn't suppose to

[Qalbert]

wouldn't have happened if the other minifigs had guns

[Colenzo]

What?

Sure, they may went a little overboard but the kid needs to learn it one way or another. I bet you he won't be bringing any guns to school now. He doesn't deserve an apology, and the mother needs to get the fuck over herself to think he does

When I was a little kid I got stopped trying to bring a toy gun on an airplane (way before 9/11). It was obviously a toy, but it doesn't matter. And guess what? That was the first, and last, time I brought a toy gun where I wasn't suppose to

was it 2 inches long?

[Pirian]

It was around there, it was one of those little plastic see-through squirt guns (was going to my grandmothers in Florida, lol)

[Colenzo]

what kind of gun is that big anyways...that doesnt even count lol

[Qalbert]

I bought an airsoft gun in germany and it was in my stowed luggage. we were flying back to US from paris and these french security people pulled me aside and drove me to a guard booth and started asking me if I had a gun etc, freaked the shit out of me because I had forgotten I even had it, then I was like ohhhh the airsoft gun. Thought it was plastic, but it was metal and looked like a real gun on the xray.

[Colenzo]

I bought an airsoft gun in germany and it was in my stowed luggage. we were flying back to US from paris and these french security people pulled me aside and drove me to a guard booth and started asking me if I had a gun etc, freaked the shit out of me because I had forgotten I even had it, then I was like ohhhh the airsoft gun. Thought it was plastic, but it was metal and looked like a real gun on the xray.

should have said it was real

[Mojo]

What?

Sure, they may went a little overboard but the kid needs to learn it one way or another. I bet you he won't be bringing any guns to school now. He doesn't deserve an apology, and the mother needs to get the fuck over herself to think he does

When I was a little kid I got stopped trying to bring a toy gun on an airplane (way before 9/11). It was obviously a toy, but it doesn't matter. And guess what? That was the first, and last, time I brought a toy gun where I wasn't suppose to

We're talking about something that's two inches long. A 6 inch piece square piece of wood has a greater chance at being perceived as an actual weapon than this. It's exactly how the mother said it was - a huge lapse of judgment. Retarded fearmongering, etc.

[Colenzo]

idk man, maybe she saw men in black and though it was a documentary

[Pirian]

We're talking about something that's two inches long. A 6 inch piece square piece of wood has a greater chance at being perceived as an actual weapon than this. It's exactly how the mother said it was - a huge lapse of judgment. Retarded fearmongering, etc.

It was around there(2 inches), it was one of those little plastic see-through squirt guns (was going to my grandmothers in Florida, lol)

There's no way it could have looked like a real gun through the x-ray machine either.

As I said, use, it was a stupid call on the side of the school, but if the mother is really thinking of suing over it well then she's just as dumb

[Colenzo]

how is she just as dumb? have you ever had to sign a statement for bringing a toy to school? :/

[Pirian]

What's she going to sue for, mental distress? Give me a break.

[Devolver]

What's she going to sue for, mental distress? Give me a break.

Do you not see what country this case is in? Shits open and shut.

[Seanr]

old, etc