Kid's School Backpacks

[blackdog8200]

My nephew took his school back pack to his dad's deer lease and did some plinking this summer.

The school called home and wanted to discuss what they found in the pack last week. One spent .223 shell and one live round.
I think they were inadvertantly left in the bag by the child and that was the official story but the bottom line was they were in the pack.

I'll spare the details of the treatment of the child and the parental response but suffice it to say had it not been a private school, there could have been some serious issues. The Zero Tolerance climate we live in now could have turned this into a really big deal.


Moral of the story: Don't use the day to day school packs for "other uses!" Seriously consider a separate pack for extracurricular activities.

On this same note, with hunting season coming up, remember that Mexico is ruthless with it's restriction on the smuggling of military arms. A single .308 or .223 round left in a bag or on the floor of a vehicle taken across the border is a Felony and have serious, lasting implications on your life and USA gun rights.


Be safe and double check the bags!

[anygunanywhere]

Zero tolerance policies are essentially absurd and have no use anywhere except the politically correct fairyland of the terminally liberal mind.

Anygun

[TexDotCom]

x 1000

Excellent, succinct, and right on the mark!

[Syntyr]

Utterly Stupid!!! (Zero Tolerance not the poster)

Zero Tolerance polices are in place so that School Administrators don't have to take responsability for their decisions

[psijac]

Utterly Stupid!!! (Zero Tolerance not the poster)

Zero Tolerance polices are in place so that School Administrators don't have to take responsability for their decisions

Zero tolerance really mean zero common sense.

[A-R]

the politically correct fairyland of the terminally liberal mind.

WOW that's a good line. I mean WOW! Are you a writer? Seriously, that is superb. I was a writer/editor for more than 10 years and that's a great line.



You better copyright that before I steal it and make it into a new bumper sticker:

"Kalifornia: the politically correct fairyland of the terminally liberal mind."

"Austin: the politically correct fairyland of the terminally liberal mind."

etc

[bnc]

how did they determine to search his backpack in the first place?

They probably ran some dogs through the school to sniff. When I was in high school (low school is more like it) we had mandatory pep rallies where you were not allowed to bring your backpack if you wanted to study and the girls could not bring their purses. Of course, when we got back to class there would be dog fur and slobber on the back packs and purses. I'm sure the school thought they were really slick, disguising a drug/bomb sweep as a pep rally and all.

[anygunanywhere]

the politically correct fairyland of the terminally liberal mind.

WOW that's a good line. I mean WOW! Are you a writer? Seriously, that is superb. I was a writer/editor for more than 10 years and that's a great line.



You better copyright that before I steal it and make it into a new bumper sticker:

"Kalifornia: the politically correct fairyland of the terminally liberal mind."

"Austin: the politically correct fairyland of the terminally liberal mind."

etc

Thanks for the compliment.

Even a blind hog finds an acorn occasionally.

Anygun

[bdickens]

My nephew took his school back pack to his dad's deer lease and did some plinking this summer.

The school called home and wanted to discuss what they found in the pack last week. One spent .223 shell and one live round.
I think they were inadvertantly left in the bag by the child and that was the official story but the bottom line was they were in the pack.

I'll spare the details of the treatment of the child and the parental response but suffice it to say had it not been a private school, there could have been some serious issues. The Zero Tolerance climate we live in now could have turned this into a really big deal.


Moral of the story: Don't use the day to day school packs for "other uses!" Seriously consider a separate pack for extracurricular activities.

On this same note, with hunting season coming up, remember that Mexico is ruthless with it's restriction on the smuggling of military arms. A single .308 or .223 round left in a bag or on the floor of a vehicle taken across the border is a Felony and have serious, lasting implications on your life and USA gun rights.


That's a very good point to remember.

Be safe and double check the bags!

[troglodyte]

I'm thinking if this happened at our private school we'd have a general alarm sound and the superintendent, principal, and several male teachers would immediately storm the room and surround the child all excitingly asking asinine questions like...where did you go hunting? Did you get anything? How big was it? Was your dad proud? Do you have a picture? What do you shoot?

[Reloader]

i REMEMBER THE GOOD OLD DAYS WHEN WE COULD TAKE OUR GUNS, CASED, TO SCHOOL FOR AFTER SCHOOL HUNTING AND STORE THEM IN THE AG TEACHER'S OR THE VICE-PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE IF HIS WAS FULL, UNTIL AFTER SCHOOL..TAGGED AND LOCKED UP WITH THE AMMO...ahhhhhhhhhh, MEMORIES!

[45 4 life]

I learned the lesson of keeping backpacks and such seperate a few years ago. Finished a dove hunting trip, got home a packed bags for a business trip into Mexico. When I arrived at the hotel and started to unpack I found 5 12ga rounds that I had overloooked. Since then I have a very different set of bags for hunting/shooting kept seperate from the business items.

By the way that was an excellant line and I plan on using it.

[TexasGal]

i REMEMBER THE GOOD OLD DAYS WHEN WE COULD TAKE OUR GUNS, CASED, TO SCHOOL FOR AFTER SCHOOL HUNTING AND STORE THEM IN THE AG TEACHER'S OR THE VICE-PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE IF HIS WAS FULL, UNTIL AFTER SCHOOL..TAGGED AND LOCKED UP WITH THE AMMO...ahhhhhhhhhh, MEMORIES!

Yeah, I remember the same thing..and SHOCKER! No one ever got shot! There were no hostage crises. No liberal panic leading to expulsions of students, etc,etc, etc... ad nauseum.
Sometimes I am so disheartened by how far and how fast things slid to where we are now.

[KD5NRH]

how did they determine to search his backpack in the first place?

They probably ran some dogs through the school to sniff. When I was in high school (low school is more like it) we had mandatory pep rallies where you were not allowed to bring your backpack if you wanted to study and the girls could not bring their purses. Of course, when we got back to class there would be dog fur and slobber on the back packs and purses. I'm sure the school thought they were really slick, disguising a drug/bomb sweep as a pep rally and all.

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