Posted on 12/23/2010 5:09:42 AM PST by Nashvegas
DECEMBER 22--A 13-year-old boy was arrested Friday for using a permanent marker while in class at his Oklahoma City middle school, a violation of an obscure city ordinance.
According to an Oklahoma City Police Department report, the boy was spotted “in possession of a permanent marker” by Roosevelt Middle School teacher DeLynn Woodside. The 50-year-old educator told cop Miguel Campos that the student was “writing on a piece of paper, which caused it to bleed over onto the desk.”
Woodside, pictured at right, reported that the child, whose name was redacted by police from the report, attempted to hide the marker when she asked him for it. Strangely, Woodside’s Facebook page reveals that her “likes and interests” include the official “Sharpie Permanent Markers” page on Facebook.
Campos reported that he allowed Woodside, a seventh grade math teacher, to “sign a citation” against the boy, who was then transported to the Community Intervention Center, a juvenile holding facility. A police sergeant subsequently “booked the marker into the property room.”
A police spokesman referred to the student’s bust as a “citizen’s arrest” effectuated by Woodside.
The marker ban--which apparently is aimed at curbing graffiti--stems from a city ordinance making it illegal to possess spray paint or a permanent marker on private property (without the owner’s permission)
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Makes ya wonder about the teacher.
Hope she gets lots of nasty letters.
The teacher? Man is she guilty.
They had to really dig to find a charge to bust this juvenile delinquent...probably saved a life or two in the process.
A sharpie marker is likely the only intimate friend she has..
This is what we have become...a Nation of Idiot’s with a Nanny complex.
Very disturbing, I have seen this pattern worsening over the past 10 years.
The school Administrators are emasculated wimps and the cops are utter control freaks who treat the the public as their departmental ATM machines, who pay for their bloated bennie packages.
Teacher Guilty
“The marker ban—which apparently is aimed at curbing graffiti—stems from a city ordinance making it illegal to possess spray paint or a permanent marker on private property (without the owner’s permission)” if the article is right then the boy walks. Public school is not private property.
When permanent markers are outlawed.....only outlaws will have permanent markers.
eye bleech, please!
Teacher ain’t got no neck.
This is so absurd and so stupid, there isn’t even any pleasure in mocking it. I hope the poor kid is OK.
I was so hoping this was from “The Onion”. Guess not.
Nice to know the police in OKC are on top of things. What major crimes were they pursuing before The Murrah Building was blown up - littering?
Teachers cannot arrest people, only police can. The teacher can't "have a student arrested." It is entirely within the discretion of the police whether or not to arrest, and the police officer is fully responsible.
Why? Was she bullying him? I'd bet she bullies the kids regularly, and that's why he was afraid of her.
She needs someone to put a size 12 shoe up her rather large rump.
Oh Gawd, that’s ugly!
What was seen, cannot be unseen.
Couldn’t she just have taken it from him and tossed it in the wastebasket? Did she really have to call the cops?
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