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11/26/2003: Criminally Absurd

A 12-year-old Siloam Springs, Arkansas boy has been has been convicted of a felony terrorist act for shooting the windows of three school buses.
from NBC Arkansas

In August, windows in three Siloam Springs school buses were hit as the buses drove from the high school to the middle school to pick up students.

Police arrested the 12-year-old boy who told authorities he had been shooting his BB gun at aluminum cans in a tree across from his house.

Judge Jay Ginch sentenced the boy to six months of supervised probation.

"Convicted of a felony terrorist act." WTF!


Wednesday the 26th of November, santo26 noted:


rafuzo, dawg, this is the kinda shit that awiggins was referring to earlier. this dumbass punk kid should have to pay to fix the buses, not be convicted of a felony terrorist act! why not convict him of being a communist agent? was this ruling something the judge handed down, or some sort of "mandatory" sentence handed down by the USA PATRIOT Act?


Thursday the 27th of November, crazywriterinla noted:


When you broke a window at my school, you had to pay to get it fixed.

We recalled a governor in this state, can we recall the Patriot Act for being so retarded?