Changing Times - 1973 vs. 2003 (humor?, vanity?)

The Hillbilly Holler ^ | Jan 2007 | Unknown

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.
1973 – Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack’s rifle, goes to
his car and gets his to show Jack.
2007 – School goes into lockdown, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail
and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for
traumatized students and teachers.
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Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1973 – Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.
2007 – Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.
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Scenario: Jeffrey won’t be still in class, disrupts other students.
1973 – Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal.
Sits still in class.
2007 – Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School
gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father’s car and his Dad gives
him a whipping.
1973 – Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2007 – Billy’s Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster
care and joins a gang. Billy’s sister is told by state psychologist that
she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy’s mom has affair with psychologist.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some headache medicine to school.
1973 – Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2007 – Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.
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Scenario: Mary turns up pregnant.
1973 – 5 High School Boys leave town. Mary does her senior year at a special school for expectant mothers.
2007 – Middle School Counselor calls Planned Parenthood, who notifies the ACLU. Mary is driven to the next state over and gets an abortion without her parent’s consent or knowledge. Mary given condoms and told to be more careful next time.
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Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.
1973: Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.
2007: Pedro’s cause is taken up by state democratic party. Newspaper
articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a
requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit
against state school system and Pedro’s English teacher. English banned
from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he can’t speak English.
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Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July,
puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.
1973 – Ants die.
2007 – BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home,
computers confiscated, Johnny’s Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
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Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee.
He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary, hugs him to comfort him.
1973 - In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2007 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

This is suppose to be humor but I didn't find myself laughing at some of these scenarios.

[wastedyears]

I would be laughing if I wasn't at work. Sadly that's how things would play out now.

[proxy_user]

Well, if we would just build more jails, we could accomodate everyone.

[contemplator]

I understand the intent of the article. The problem is that the 'good ole days' weren't so good either.

[Domandred]

Sooo true, that's what makes it funny.

I gotta complain though. I was so used to boy names that when I got to "Mary turns up pregnant" my I read "Mark turns up pregnant" and it confused me how that happened.

[Domandred]

That first one though....man

I graduated High School in '90. While going to school we could have our rifles and/or shotguns in our trucks and cars because a lot of students went hunting after school. Some of us went at lunch but don't tell anyone. We just couldn't take them inside or we would get suspended for three days meaning getting are arses beat by our dads.

That was just in 1990, so you really don't have to go all the way back to 73.

[ZGuy]

It actually was 1973 when I had to demonstrate something in class. So I brought in some gunpowder, some empty 12 ga. shells, primers, etc. and demonstrated how to reload shotgun shells in class. No problem.

[Domandred]

Come to think of it I remember one year being in the junior high (middle school now) parking lot and and having the instructor pour three 12" lines of different types of gunpowder on the sidewalk outside. He lit em to show the difference in burn times. 1986.

In grade school I think it was 4th grade for halloween I came as a cowboy complete with 2 revolver cap-guns, fully loaded and if anyone asked I "shot" em. Good thing I brought plenty of "ammo" with me as well cause a lot of kids were getting "shot". That would have been 1982.

[chaosagent]

Bookmarked

[litehaus]

"The problem is that the 'good ole days' weren't so good either."

Yep! But, but somehow we lived thru them in spite of actually having a chemistry set in the basement,a shotgun in the closet, bb guns, slingshots,bows/arrows galore and NO WARNING TAGS on the stuff!

Additionally, we played outside, ran like hell, climbed trees, dug holes and seldom got sick...And no one we knew was hyperactive...OR, maybe we ALL were?

[Domandred]

I also remember playing around in the neighborhood in constuction sites after hours.

The universal call home was Dad going outside and yelling our name, by the tone of the yell from half way across the neighborhood you could tell if you were in trouble or not.

[rednesss]

I can relate, I graduated in 1991 and we used to drive to school in the morning with our .22's, 30-30's, shotguns, etc. in the gun racks, fully visible, in the school parking lot, not one problem. Nobody said a word. Nowadays I'd be lucky to get parole by 2020. Gotta love the brave new SWAT world that we've been handed. Man I love the war on drugs.

[nothingnew]

OR, maybe we ALL were?

I certainly would qualify in todays standards.

FMCDH(BITS)

[perfect stranger]

We might be pretty close with that "degrees of separation" thing. I had this forwarded to one of my email accounts just yesterday. LOL