NV ARNG/CAP cadet detained by police/school admin for Facebook photos in uniform

[ProdigalJim]

First off...it was just the ball, no gun. So pretty hard to put an eye out.

Secondly...he was at his locker, reached into his pocket, wondered what the hell was in there, took it out and said, "Hey, I forgot this was in there."

Thirdly...the SRO was ambling down the hallway at that exact moment.

Pow. "Carrying ammunition to school."

As he said at the time, he realized it was contraband, wondered what the hell to do it about it, since he was now in school, at his locker, with the thing in his hand, and would have been perfectly happy to have had it confiscated. Which he in fact said to the officer. "I forgot I had it. If you want it, that's fine by me." And that's where it should have ended, considering that he had never been a discipline problem, threatened nobody, did nothing to "hide" it or lie about it, offered no resistance or attitude, and essentially volunteered it.

But it was also 14 years ago, so he really doesn't care at this point.

[Майор Хаткевич]

So....this is 1999? Pre or post Columbine?

[ProdigalJim]

So....this is 1999? Pre or post Columbine?

Hmm. I honestly don't remember. It might have been right after...which would explain the hypersensitivity.

[NIN]

Paintball is fun but don't think for a moment that a paintball cannot put out an eye. That is why paintballers wear protective gear.

So can we have the "rest of the story".

Wait, what?

Yeah, "Oh, whoops, left a paintball in my pocket. *splat* Oh, man, that paintball totally hit you in the eye at 300fps  from a dead stop!"

Those deadly self-projecting paintballs. Man.

[Critical AOA]

A paintball is not dangerous by itself and can no more be considered ammunition than a loose bullet that is not in a cartridge with propellant.  I cannot imagine a school reacting as described even in today's environment of overly heightened fear and overreactions.  The only situation that I can imagine a school official giving a kid a hard time over this is if the kid was a known troublemaker and the official was using this as an excuse to mess with him.

[EMT-83]

They put an entire school district here in lockdown last month because someone found a round on the sidewalk near one of the schools.

[JeffDG]

They put an entire school district here in lockdown last month because someone found a round on the sidewalk near one of the schools.

When I was a kid, that would have happened all the time...I filled my pockets with .22LRs and went out shooting gophers lots of days after school...they were kind of like change or money in pockets...grab a jacket and find ammo there all the time.

[Eclipse]

They put an entire school district here in lockdown last month because someone found a round on the sidewalk near one of the schools.

When I was a kid, that would have happened all the time...I filled my pockets with .22LRs and went out shooting gophers lots of days after school...they were kind of like change or money in pockets...grab a jacket and find ammo there all the time.

Memories.

A million years ago, in the 70's, I had a watchband like this:


There was a time when "bullet belts" and similar were all the rage, so at some point, I replaced the metal rings with expended 22 shells
I found in the basement. 

Then of course, I realized "What would be even cooler then expended shells?  Why live ones of course!"

Yes, for more then a short while I had 8 live 22 rounds on my watch.  No one noticed, not even my dad, and they were his bullets!
I don't think I ever told anyone they were live.

I'm lucky / surprised I didn't blow my arm off or hurt someone...

[caphornbuckle]

I used to have a .22 round in the "Levi's" tab on the pocket flap of my jean jacket back in my school days (Late 80's/early 90's).  Was actually a big fad then.  You couldn't have a Levi's jean jacket without it.  Nothing was said.  Was a city school too!

[a2capt]

I had M16 rounds on a keychain during high school, and we would carry paintball guns into buildings, and even modified them in metal shop.. I can't even imagine doing that in this era.

Heck, that would make the newspaper.. but back then, making mods to Nelspot pistols and turning the semi-automatic SMG-60 into full automatic, with a hopper that held a 2-liter bottle worth of balls.. Lots of fun. Back then.

[Private Investigator]

Interesting how things changed.

20 years ago I worked OT assignments at Belmont HS in downtown L.A. 6300+ students, biggest HS in the USA. In the 1920s and 1930s it was exceptional, Jack Webb graduated from there as well as lots of famous people.

Walking the perimeter you find guns and knives every day. Armed robberies in the hallways occurred and all kinds of crazy stuff. One time I was proneing out  armed gangmembers in front of the principal's office. She came out and said, "OH MY !!!" and disappeared back in her office.

[sarmed1]

A paintball is not dangerous by itself and can no more be considered ammunition than a loose bullet that is not in a cartridge with propellant.  I cannot imagine a school reacting as described even in today's environment of overly heightened fear and overreactions.  The only situation that I can imagine a school official giving a kid a hard time over this is if the kid was a known troublemaker and the official was using this as an excuse to mess with him.

we are talking the same teachers that suspend and expel kids over brining lego figures with guns or plastic picnic knovs to cut their food because they feel it violates the 0 tolerance weapons policy.

mk