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LooksBetterDrawn
04-18-2005, 12:28 PM
I just thought a few might enjoy my "stupid people" story of the day. Please prepare your disgusted sighs...

So I'm at work, covered in paint from working on the next set when the police show up and ask me to come down to the station for questioning. While taking the 1/4 mile trip down the road I begin racking my brain to think what I would have done and coming up with nothing. As I enter the station i see my mom and my brother and I think the situation has taking another dive. So words are traded, time passes, and I figure out whats going on. My brother (who is 15) is being charged for terrorism and death threats. You see, he drew a little (not very good) comic about an ex of his. In the comic he zaps the girl with a beam from his hand and disintegrated her. Thats the death threat part of it, somehow the parrents of the girl got a copy of the comic and thought the worst of his doodles and pressed charges. But our happy story does not end there. With this cartoon he also had a story he was writing that had to do with himself being a mutant and fighting with the x-men. The police, being ignorant of anything X, saw this as a story of terrorism. Now just to recap... doodles of using superpowers = death threats, and x-men = terrorists.
I hope you found this story as amusing as i did.

Oh yes, and during this I was told if i did not stop laughing i would be arrested.

Crowley
04-18-2005, 12:32 PM
oh the one hand it's silly... on the other hand... disinegrating a woman isn't the best way to end a relationship.

Tell him next time to draw her dating The Blob.

anthony!
04-18-2005, 12:39 PM
Actually this reminds of the time when a Sunday school teacher found a drawing I did of Optimus Prime flying with his arms out (looking like a cross). She called my parents and said that I was a satanist and worshiping robots and that maybe I shouldn't be a part of the church.

I was 9.

I swear. Some people...

tymac
04-18-2005, 04:04 PM
Sigh....

I'm amazed at the effort that people put into prosecuting things that require interpretation to be seen as threats. Especially considering how oblivious we are to real dangers, and how dismissive we are of genuine threats. I guess people feel the need to be "doing something".

What has happened to this country? Are we really this stupid? Before anyone answers, that's just rhetorical, I already know that the answer is yes.

YoGo
04-19-2005, 01:39 AM
Oooh, oooh, I got one.

When I was a teen at church in the youth group, this chick I knew came up to me while I was waiting for the service to start. I was early and listening to my discman. She asked me what I was playing and I said it was a Mariah Carey CD (don't laugh).

Anyway she recoiled in horror and surprise with an exclaimation, "You listen to secular music?!" I was just thinking wtf is wrong with you woman? So then I got this mini-lecture abt the dangers of secular music and how i would end up being consumed by the sins of the world and Mariah Carey's lyrics would, according to her logic, give my soul to Satan.

pfft...i hate to think how many people get turned of Christianity because of uninformed people like that.

Forsaken_One
04-19-2005, 01:53 AM
[...]I said it was a Mariah Carey CD (don't laugh).

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YoGo
04-19-2005, 02:00 AM
U got sumthin to say?!

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