“The paper clip was bent in a manner that could allow for use as a weapon.”
Huh? How you even begin to bend a paper clip to make it a weapon? I have a hard time keeping papers together with those things. Maybe it was not a regular clip but one of those High Capacity Automatic Assault Magazine Clips we keep hearing about.
Something tells me that both the faculty and administration of that school are downing hooch out of sippy cups during school hours. That or the kid was a Ninja with a long track of dead classmates using office supplies.
Oh come on, don’t any of them remember being that age?
You took paperclips and bent them into all sorts of things! Having an exotic weapon was way cooler than the idea of using it!
I always have an assault paperclip in my hip pocket- you never know when you may have to take out a stack of papers.
WHAT. THE. FORK.
Would break the paper clips into 2 “U” shaped pieces. Then launched with rubber band. Worse yet were those straight pins used to keep things on the cork bulletin board. Scotch tape wrapped around the pins to simulate blow dart launched out of a lunch straw. Now those were weapons.
We used to have free dress costume day in middle school. I would dress up as a cowboy and have real .357 cal fired brass in a real leather gun belt with a Mattel fanner 50 in the holster. Had to leave the caps at home Damn! Can you imagine that today, they would put me in therapy and jail.
Srsly – working in the prisons taught me how to “weaponize” just about anything. The kid could have taken out an eye or poked someone in the jugular or pierced an eardrum (and if was a jumbo paper clip maybe even scrambled some brain matter).
But it’s never the intent of the individual that is the concern. It’s that “things” are inherently evil and will make the most innocent of us into raging mass killers. Either that or Sean was planning to try to clean the wax out of his ears at lunch so he could gross out little Suzy.
Sadly, we will never know if it was mayhem or budding young love.
stay safe.
Did it happen to occur to them that a pencil is ALREADY shaped in such a way “that could allow for use as a weapon”? And a more dangerous weapon than a paperclip, I would think.
But to be fair, there is nothing in this article that says the school in question allows the students to have pencils or pens, either…