Student arrested for edgy school shooting joke, Judge bans him from playing violent video games - Sensationalist Headlines

[QUOTE]A 16-year-old sophomore at Lake Park High School in west suburban Roselle has been arrested and charged after making “specific threats” against the school, authorities said Tuesday. According to DuPage County prosecutors, the youth had become “annoyed” by ongoing social media chatter regarding a Friday threat that had closed the school’s two campuses but ultimately was deemed not credible. In response to the talk about the closing, the youth posted a clip on Snapchat of himself playing a violent video game and wrote, “Y’all need to shut up about school shootings or I’ll do one.” On Monday morning, one of the Roselle Police Department’s school resource officers “learned of a (Lake Park) student who made specific threats” against the school, according to a post on the department’s Facebook page. Police and school officials “acted quickly to curtail any chance of danger to our kids,” the department wrote in the post. The youth appeared Tuesday afternoon in DuPage County juvenile court, where he is charged with felony disorderly conduct. His public defender said the comment was a joke, albeit one made in poor taste. But in the wake of the Feb. 14 Florida school shooting, prosecutors said, the comment was nothing to laugh about. A police search of the boy’s Roselle home turned up no weapons, and his parents said in court that they did not keep any weapons in the home. Judge Robert Anderson released the boy, who spent the night in a juvenile facility, into the custody of his parents and ordered him placed on indefinite home detention.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]The judge also ordered him to turn over his phone to his parents and banned him from playing violent video games. [B]“You can play all the Mario Kart you want,” Anderson told the teen.[/B] details about the nature of the threat or the exact charges filed against the teen, and further information about the charges was not immediately available from the DuPage County state’s attorney’s office.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/ct-met-roselle-high-school-threat-20180227-story.html[/url]

I wanted to come up with some joke about how the USA is so potently backwards it's essentially time traveling at this point but I'm legitimately at a loss for words. I know I should be laughing at this but the raw stupidity that oozes from the situation is so strong that it is effectively sapping away my sense of humor. It's like comedic dry heaving.

As fucking retarded that the kid may be, is it actually within the rights of judges in the US to decide what legal media you're allowed to consume?

Mario Kart is not violent? I disagree: [IMG]https://www.mariowiki.com/images/thumb/9/95/RedShellMK8.png/200px-RedShellMK8.png[/IMG]

How do you enforce that even

[QUOTE=ThatSwordGuy;53172700]How do you enforce that even[/QUOTE] If he gets caught playing a game with the [I]slightest[/I] bit of physical violence, it's instant jailtime.

Yeah this isn't overreaching at all.

[QUOTE=Bordellimies;53172701]If he gets caught playing a game with the [I]slightest[/I] bit of physical violence, it's instant jailtime.[/QUOTE] Technically would playing multiplayer games be counted as expressing yourself? If so restricting that maybe could be illegal?

What a fucking idiot, it's nice to see the US Justice System at its finest work - good look enforcing that.

Ah man I remember being in school and playing violent videogames, I always remember how I shot up at least 4x more schools than my friends that played Farmville. I'm glad they're finally tackling the issue. Who else here remembers shooting up their first school? Good memories eh?

[QUOTE=TheBorealis;53172705]Technically would playing multiplayer games be counted as expressing yourself? If so restricting that maybe could be illegal?[/QUOTE] Minors do not have rights in America

So, what if the kid wants to play Tf2 and turns on silly gibs, so there's no blood or gore? Is that okay? What about Counter-Strike? I know the official game has guns and blood, but what if he's just playing it on a Minecraft server? (yes, that actually exists, by the way) What if he's playing Mario Kart and he gets hit by a blue shell right before winning a race, and he throws his controller into the tv in rage? Does it count as a violent game then?

[QUOTE=TheDrunkenOne;53172699]Mario Kart is not violent? I disagree: [IMG]https://www.mariowiki.com/images/thumb/9/95/RedShellMK8.png/200px-RedShellMK8.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] Some of you guys are alright, don't go on Rainbow Road tomorrow.

I dunno man, some people can get pretty salty playing Mario Kart.

[QUOTE=Quark:;53172724]Minors do not have rights in America[/QUOTE] Even the Constitution? The 18th Amendment forbids cruel and unusual punishment, and one of the criteria for something to count as that by the SCOTUS was defined as "A severe punishment that is patently unnecessary." A lawyer could argue video games has no impact on what he said, which could make it unnecessary. (i'm not a lawyer, sorry if this is dumb) edit: reading more the person was playing a violent game while making the joke threat, which would make it harder to argue. Anyway violent is undefined, mario kart could be counted as violent with carts hitting each other. Just a stupid ban.

[QUOTE=TheBorealis;53172740]Even the Constitution? The 18th Amendment forbids cruel and unusual punishment, and one of the criteria for something to count as that by the SCOTUS was defined as "A severe punishment that is patently unnecessary." A lawyer could argue video games has no impact on what he said, which could make it unnecessary. (i'm not a lawyer, sorry if this is dumb)[/QUOTE] But videogames cause violence??? Checkmate

[QUOTE=Swiket;53172726]Some of you guys are alright, don't go on Rainbow Road tomorrow.[/QUOTE] Stop right there [t]https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/humanoid/images/1/17/Watcha_gonna_do_when_they_come_for_you.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130223200052[/t]

Banning violent videogames is not the answer you fucktard judge.

But Mario Kart has bullets in it: [IMG]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/320307236884971531/419245563343667204/maxresdefault.jpg[/IMG]

It could be worse. He could be ordered to play Mario Party with his family, then the follow-up story would be "student arrested after murdering family over Mario Party feud". I saw an apt phrase at an university t-shirt market once; "Video games don't make me want to kill people in real life, real life makes me want to kill people in video games" but really, I think this kid is more likely to go on a shooting spree now just to spite the soggy tart who saw it fit to dictate what he can and can't put in his game console.

The united states judicial system and political system is the only joke now. Things must be getting pretty desperate in america to be scapegoating like this.

[QUOTE=Steel & Iron;53172735]I dunno man, some people can get pretty salty playing Mario Kart.[/QUOTE] If anything, Mario Kart's MORE likely to cause him to go off the edge. Stop school shootings: petition Nintendo to ban blue shells.

Im sure justice like this is going to make him less likely to want to shoot up a place, yeah

There is no fucking way a judge has the kind of legal authority to choose what kind of media someone consumes, right? This is absurd to a comical degree. [editline]3[/editline] So the only relation games have to this is that he was playing one when he made the tweet? Is he still allowed to watch violent movies, then? How about playing paintball, which simulates graphic real world violence and is a true danger to our youth, just like the portraying of violence in literature and news and reality in general.

[QUOTE=Last or First;53172810]If anything, Mario Kart's MORE likely to cause him to go off the edge. Stop school shootings: petition Nintendo to ban blue shells.[/QUOTE] If we just arm teachers with Super Horns we won't have blue shell violence in our schools.

I'm pretty sure this breaks our first amendment, the judge or government is not allowed to command what type of media you consume, opinions you believe in, what you say or how you must express yourself. If this was a joke, it's a very poor joke..

I would immediately hire an attorney and get this appealed with a new judge. This is absolutely 100% ridiculous and sounds like something you would see on The Onion.

It's already been said but let me repeat, minors do not have rights in the US. There is nothing he can do except wait a couple years before he can play call of duty again legally.

[QUOTE=Hilton;53173015]It's already been said but let me repeat, minors do not have rights in the US. There is nothing he can do except wait a couple years before he can play call of duty again legally.[/QUOTE] But what is he gonna be "charged" with if he breaks it, defying the court? Would that mean that legally a court could decree [I]anything[/I] in regards to a minor?

Do not read the comments on the article. What is with comment sections in general?