Boy, 13, Busted For Illegal Marker Possession

[TechMan]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/boy-13-busted-illegal-marker-possession
13 year old  was using a permanent marker to draw on a piece of paper, which bleed over on to the desk.  Cops are called.  Citation is signed (Citizen's arrest) and 13 year old is transported to juvenile holding facility.  Permanent marker was booked in to property room.   Marker ban is used to combat graffiti.  In Oklahoma City it is illegal to possess spray paint or permanent marker on private property without the owner's permission.

There has to be something more to this story, but I don't know what it could be. 

 

[AJ Dual]

From those in the know, and the location of that particular school, there's a good probability that the child in question is already a pre-gang-banger/thuglet etc. and has a "history".

I don't know this for certain, but a good guess as to the "more to the story" you're looking for.

[drewtam]

There has to be something more to this story, but I don't know what it could be. 

As a matter of pure speculation:
What if he was intentionally bleeding through the paper to draw gang signs on the desk?
What if this (intentional) behavior had been addressed several times before with no productive correction?

[Ned Hamford]

When permanent markers are outlawed, only outlaws will have permanent markers.

 

[never_retreat]

Weird that you say that.
I see spray paint locked up in some stores in NJ (not paint or big box) but at tractor supply they do. Although the padlock is usually off. And some stores lock up bolt cutters. I don't know if thats to keep people from stealing the bolt cutters or to keep them from being used on something else locked up in the store. 

[cosine]

I saw "marker" in the thread title and thought "paintball gun." I was surprised to read that it was a writing implement.

[Snowdog]

From those in the know, and the location of that particular school, there's a good probability that the child in question is already a pre-gang-banger/thuglet etc. and has a "history".

I suspect the same as well.  Unfortunately for the 7th grade math teacher, her image was lifted off FaceBook and posted with the (possibly incomplete) Smoking Gun report.  I haven't any doubts that those who are likely not-the-least-in-the-know, but who undoubtedly believe they are will make an effort to make this lady's life hell for the next few weeks. 
I'm quite sure she'll receive threats from the knee-slap crowd who'd rather give into their lust for “justice” rather than spend the time to dig deeper into the story.

But, that's the way it goes... yay for social networking.
Great way to spend Christmas for sure. 

[vaskidmark]

This is not an isolated incident!

There is a nation-wide network of desk defacers out there!!!!!!!eleventy!!ZOMG!!!

According to the ex-boyfriend of my barber's sister-in-law's babysitter's nephew's crossing guard's teacher friend's kid's teacher's husband who once got a ticket from a certain cop whose kid brother's uncle used to go to school, this http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2010/02/05/2010-02-05_cuffed_for_doodling_on_a_desk.html was the bust that broke the whole thing wide open, except that nobody on the interwebz blamed the MSM for not picking up on it.

Personally, I think we ought to be giving kids beter blotter paper to use under their doodlings.  Letting the schools and cops go all  on them is just driving down the availability of ammo for the serious neighborhood watch guys.

stay safe.

[sanglant]

we need to ban public schools.

[Antibubba]

At least he wasn't sniffing it.