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Autistic Boy Charged With Making Terrorist Threats Over Stick-Figure Sketch
Fox News.com ^ | 13 May 2010 | staff reporter

Posted on 05/13/2010 3:26:16 PM PDT by Daffynition

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. - A fourteen-year-old autistic boy is facing terrorist charges after a sketch he made in school.

The sketch shows two stick-figures. One of them is labeled ‘Me’ and is shown shooting a gun at another with a teacher’s name above it.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Education; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: autism
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1 posted on 05/13/2010 3:26:16 PM PDT by Daffynition
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Gasp! Some kid has a teacher they don’t like! EARTH-SHATTERING!
[/sarc]


2 posted on 05/13/2010 3:27:38 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Daffynition

big deal.he’s autistic, NOT artistic.


3 posted on 05/13/2010 3:27:41 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants"-Albert Camus)
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Phil Hartman is already dead.


4 posted on 05/13/2010 3:27:55 PM PDT by library user
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How do they know the drawing is of a gun? It looks like a t-square. Maybe he’s just into geometry.


5 posted on 05/13/2010 3:28:44 PM PDT by library user
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To: OneWingedShark
These terrorists must be stopped!


6 posted on 05/13/2010 3:29:11 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Play it, Sam, for old times' sake, play 'As Time Goes By'.")
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even has the X’s on the eyes, too.

The “terrorist threat” seems a bit much, but it’s pretty obvious what this kid was thinking about.


7 posted on 05/13/2010 3:29:41 PM PDT by digger48
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I think it’s a boomerang.


8 posted on 05/13/2010 3:31:51 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Daffynition
Yeah, well my five year old offended PETA...

Actual he made when asked to graphically draw the equation "4-1" in first grade...

9 posted on 05/13/2010 3:32:07 PM PDT by raybbr (Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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10 posted on 05/13/2010 3:33:21 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Play it, Sam, for old times' sake, play 'As Time Goes By'.")
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11 posted on 05/13/2010 3:34:27 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Play it, Sam, for old times' sake, play 'As Time Goes By'.")
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And this is news because?

Kick the kid out,it is obvious the public education system has failed.


12 posted on 05/13/2010 3:35:02 PM PDT by Del Rapier
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13 posted on 05/13/2010 3:35:35 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Play it, Sam, for old times' sake, play 'As Time Goes By'.")
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14 posted on 05/13/2010 3:36:32 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Play it, Sam, for old times' sake, play 'As Time Goes By'.")
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15 posted on 05/13/2010 3:37:41 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Play it, Sam, for old times' sake, play 'As Time Goes By'.")
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Hey, this is a family site. Watch the gruesome images, will you?

;-)


16 posted on 05/13/2010 3:38:34 PM PDT by Hoffer Rand (There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
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17 posted on 05/13/2010 3:39:08 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Play it, Sam, for old times' sake, play 'As Time Goes By'.")
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18 posted on 05/13/2010 3:40:00 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Play it, Sam, for old times' sake, play 'As Time Goes By'.")
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19 posted on 05/13/2010 3:40:43 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Play it, Sam, for old times' sake, play 'As Time Goes By'.")
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LOL


20 posted on 05/13/2010 3:42:07 PM PDT by Hoffer Rand (There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
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