Boys suspended for playing with toy guns at home

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Boys suspended for playing with toy guns at home

QMI Agency

Sep 24, 2013 , Last Updated: 1:31 PM ET

Two Grade 7 boys in Virginia Beach, Va., have been suspended from school and face expulsion after a neighbour complained about them playing with toy guns in one of their yards.
Khalid Caraballo and his friend Aiden were playing with airsoft "zombie hunter" guns in Khalid's yard, when a neighbour called 911, local station WAVY-TV reports. The toy guns shoot rubber pellets.
The unnamed neighbour told WAVY she knew the guns were fake.
"This is not a real one, but it makes people uncomfortable. I know that it makes me (uncomfortable), as a mom, to see a boy pointing a gun," she said.
The boys are suspended from school for "possession, handling and use of a firearm" and may be expelled the remainder of the year.
Larkspur Middle School principal Matthew Delaney said an investigation found the "children were firing pellet guns at each other, and at people near the bus stop."
Khalid's home is 70 yards from the bus stop.
"My son is my private property. He does not become the school's property until he goes to the bus stop, gets on the bus, and goes to school," said Khalid's mother, Solangel Caraballo.

Boys suspended for playing with toy guns at home

I don't know what's stupider, that schools are now suspending students for what they do at home (here we can't even get rid of college kids that set fire to a police car in a block party off school grounds!) or that mom really needs to avail herself of a dictionary to learn the definition of the word 'property'. Possibly it's the neighbour calling 911, not filing a report with the police, but actually calling 911.

This world is getting very sick and paranoid. These god damn electronic gadgets are going to do the kids a lot more harm than guns, either toy guns or real guns! When we were kids we were shooting bee bee guns by age 6 and .22s by age 10 or 11. And generally speaking we didn't kill one another. One thing for sure today, kids aren't going to die from violence, just from getting fat and useless!

 

[petros]

Virginia Beach definitely has a zombie problem and the only ones prepared to tackle the issue are 12 year olds.

 

[PoliticalNick]

The caller also knew the gun wasn't real and said so: "This is not a real one, but it makes people uncomfortable.

Why call 911 if you know it is a toy?

I know that it makes me [uncomfortable], as a mom, to see a boy pointing a gun," she told the 911 dispatcher.

I wonder how uncomfortable she would have been watching my sons learn to handle my H&K 9mm when they were 11 & 13?

 

[JLM]

It can be mostly blamed to the noisy reactions every time some nut case goes on a rampage 2 or 3 times a year. What do people expect out of a population of 350 million. People kill themselves with cars every day, people kill themselves every day crossing the street on foot, but God forbid there be gun involved and then you get the ignoramuses who know absolutely zero about guns getting shrill! There really should be a law against stupidity!

 

[petros]

There really should be a law against stupidity!

The kids have every right to arm themselves with zombie killer toy guns against zombies. They are armed too.

Especially on the buses and transit.

Translink Transit Police said Saturday's Zombie Walk, an annual event since 2005, resulted in some 911 calls from SkyTrain passengers who were concerned the realistic weapons being carried by some fellow travelers in undead makeup.

Constable Graham Walker said officers investigated the reports and verified the weapons were replicas being carried by "zombies."

"Ourselves, along with Vancouver Police, have responded to a couple calls where plastic guns were subject to the call," he said. "To the members of the public, they looked very real."

"Most of the time people were allowed to keep them, but asked to store them in a more safe way that doesn't cause alarm," Walker said.

Lets get this straight. Adults dressed as zombies with toys is okay but kids being kids and playing in their yard is great national attention?

WTF kind of adult would dress up like a zombie on purpose, ride transit and stumble around downtown?

Did anybody call in about the zombies that drove or nobody noticed zombies on the road?

I guess it is Vancouver...