Posted on 12/21/2007 8:53:04 AM PST by subterfuge
A second-grade teacher at Forest City Elementary School in Altamonte Springs has been placed on leave after he, by mistake, drove to school with a Red Rider BB rifle on top of his station wagon.
Jon Diesbourg was sent home yesterday after being questioned by Altamonte Springs police.
He told them his wife had used the BB gun to separate pet pigs because they had gotten into a fight. She had set the rifle down on his Ford Escort station wagon, and he, unknowingly drove it to work, according to police.
The BB gun was still there, on or near the car's luggage rack, when a parent spotted it yesterday on school property. A school official then called police.
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The district investigation, she said, would determine whether the BB gun is a weapon.
Diesbourg is on a paid leave of absence, she said.
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/sarc, I think.
Ha, ha. Got shot in the neck with a bb gun when I was a kid.
We used to have little BB gun wars. The rule was “don’t shoot above the waist.” The other kid’s aim was off a little. It didn’t hurt much.
They still do have a shooting program for JROTC locally, except they use precision air rifles. From a logistical point of view it makes sense, no lead contamination, no need for a special range (pellet traps), and no noise problems. The principles of marksmanship, safe gun handling, and shooting competition can be learned with either.
You’ll shoot your eye out, teacher!
“My son is going to explode”
You must be Muslim.
we used to take our .22’s to school and go rabbit hunting after.....everyone did it...notice there were no school shootings in those days.
We have truly reached the point where we need a law to state “ common sense shall be a safe harbor from prosecution for ‘zero tollerance’ rules”
We are living in a society where the adminstrators at large desire a public wearing terry cloth jump suits and only use sporks for consumption of nutritionally formulated goverment issue tofu.
I remember doing that! lol
Before the days of paintball guns.
Shhh... don’t let anyone figure out that journalism majors know absolutely nothing about weapons or firearm terminology.
Come to think of it, my dad tells me he frequently carried his rifle to school, left it in the cloak room, so he could hunt on his way to and from school. Different era. Different mentality. Definitely rural, obviously.
I did as well. (actually it was a sub-basement) The notable thing is that this was in Manhattan, NYC!
Don't they mean "dinner"?
What next, arrest a 10 year old for cutting her steak with a knife?
This sure isn’t the Florida I grew up in back in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
Dump PC and Zero Tolerance and regain some “COMMON SENSE!”
This guy is so screwed.
Crud like this never ceases to amaze me.
Here in San Diego, one of thee high schools banned the ROTC from using any kind of gun or prop for the drill team. This group formerly did the 21 gun salute for Memorial Day at the American Legion. The school even banned this off campus practice.
Wasn’t that long ago. I carried my shotgun and rifle (depending on hunting season) in my car to high school. I graduated in ‘90.
Remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nONDliZ2elY
we did the same.
BB gun. What were they afraid of, that he would shoot his eye out?
It was annoying, of course, because so many windows at school got shot out by BB gun-toters, and there would be some outcry about showing up with one. But the classroom windows were replaced with polycarbonate, and the BB’s bounce off largely harmlessly.
But, was it an “assault” BB gun?
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