Okay, this is one where the application of the legal doctrine of 'true threats' needs to be applied.
No reasonable speaker, hearer, or neutral party (there, I covered all the interpretations of the doctrine various Courts of Appeals have enunciated) would regard a list prefaced "I want to kill" that includes the Energizer Bunny and various irritiating Hollywood types as representing an actual threat of homocide against the people listed.
Another example of "Zero Tolerance = Zero Common Sense".
Agreed, this is simply moronic. And I love the commentary in the article from the other students of being terrified for their lives! "They're gonna whack the Energizer Bunny and then I'm next!!!"
Granted. I think it's obvious, even from here, that these girls weren't really going to do anything. Of course, with a charge like this on their records, these girls will likely never get a job that pays more than minimum wage, if that. I hope that the taxpayers and the 'punish everyone' crowd are thinking about that when they pay their taxes for the welfare they'll need to make the rent payments on their cheapy apartments they live in.
Seriously now. When I was a kid we sang his to the tune of 'Battle Hymn of the Republic':
Glory, glory hallelujah!
Teacher hit me with a ruler.
Hid behind the door
With a loaded .44
And she ain't teaching no more.
And then we would all laugh and giggle. Even the teachers didn't think of that as a serious threat.
Ya think! LOL!