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Okay, this tale is just rediculous. First I'll give a little background- Normally in lunch there's me, then Kyle, Leah, and a few other friends. We're all about 17 years old, except for one who's either 14 or 15.
Kyle is very short and thin, not very physically strong. Pretty much any of us could pick him up and throw him. Actually, Leah's done that before (in a made-up game called "Midget Pitching" xD ). Leah is very... big. She's overweight, but amazingly strong. She's in field and track, gets good grades.. so basically the teachers love her (my town is a "Sports Town".. they praise anyone and anything sports-related.)

Now I'm sure you all have close friends that you pick on playfully. You call them names and say you'll do things that you'd honestly never think of doing ( like they take your pen suddenly and you exaggerate "I will destroy you!!" ) It's all fun and anyone can relate to it. Kyle and Leah do that kind of stuff all the time. There is some difference between them usually though. Kyle calls Leah a whore, but since Leah is physically tougher, she'd more inclined to just hit Kyle or something. Not enough to hurt, but enough to get her point across. Sometimes she'll respond by calling him a name too. But we're all used to it so it's nothing unusual.

Now to the story.
On Monday this week, Leah went up to get her food at lunch. She left her notebook on the table. Kyle and myself being the mischevious fiends we are, took it and started writing play-insults all over it. When she came back she quickly flipped the notebook over and wrote things back to us on the back. We continued this for a few minutes, everyone laughing at the rediculous things the others came up with, until Leah ripped the back off and put it on the table. We thought nothing of it though, and just continued to write more on that back (but the on its other side that didn't have anything on it.)

Fast forward.
Now it's Wednesday, second out of eight periods, and I'm called down to the assistant principal's office. Apparently they say that Leah was offended by the writing, and started calling it a threat. I raised my eyebrows, thinking perhaps some teacher saw her notebook and thought it was serious. They told me I might get suspended for a day, but honestly they never got back to me on it (So I think I'm okay..) He also said that Leah would be switched out of our lunch period, and that we should avoid her as much as possible. Personally, I thought no problem with that. If that b***h was trying to get us in trouble then I don't want to talk to her.
At lunch time I tell Kyle about it. He thought different. He wanted to find her and see what the heck's going on (Just to tell you now- he didn't get to. Still to this moment none of us have a clue what's happening with her.) The entire table (sans Leah, as she wasn't there) mulled it over. We noticed, if we had ratted her out every time she did something "unacceptable" or "threatening" to us, she would've been kicked out LONG ago. I warned Kyle that he would be called to the office soon.

And so he was. At gym I hear the whole story. Since he wrote the most stuff, they actually brought in a detective to explain to him. They told him that he might get expelled, or even arrested for threatening his friend. He tried to explain that he's a good student, has no violent past, comes from a good family, and is one of the most non-violent people you'll find. They wouldn't listen, saying that sometimes things happen even in those settings. Besides that he told them about how he'd been Leah's friend for three years, and if there was a problem going on between them he would've known long ago. They ended up calling his mom and she flipped... up until the moment that she heard it was Leah this was happening over. Kyle's mom knows all about their shenanigans, and that it's never something serious. She came in immediately with a lawyer... Kyle just sat there the whole time, dumbfounded, having no clue what the hell was going on. The lawyer explained exactly as I just wrote.. that they're friends and this is just stupid. Kyle ended up not getting arrested or expelled.. just suspended for a couple of days.

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On Friday we have even more info. Cops came to Kyle's house Wednesday night. They had a warrant and searched. They found his father's hunting gun and accused Kyle of having a weapon. (Yes, I'm aware that now this is not only schools taking it too seriously, but also the government. I hope no one minds.) I really don't know what's going on with that, I just know that it happened.
But later Thursday night, Kyle was cleaning through his room and found an old notebook from 9th grade. You know what was on it? Leah wrote the exact same thing that he wrote on her notebook the other day. The exact same words. Leah is suing him, but now he's countersuing her. If Kyle loses this case, he's going to expelled. If he wins.. well, he gets off the hook! There's pretty much no other way to go.

I haven't had anything new since Friday, which is when I found the last bit. I'll keep this updated though...

Otherwise, this all started because of some silly people taking jokes too far. Although I honestly don't know what the hell Leah's thinking with this (she pretty much just lost every single one of her friends in this once act.) I'm amazed that these people can't even identify between an obvious act of friends and a serious I'm-gonna-kill-you murder case. It's so rediculous.

Just one more thing to note- Rudy (a kid at our lunch table) is organizing a sit-in. On Monday, if things don't blow over yet (or if they get worse), we're going to get everyone Kyle knows to just sit in the Main Office until a sane decision is met. Everyone at my lunch table is a witness to what originally happened with the notebook. We all saw Leah laughing, joining in. But I now wonder if she plotted it- after all, Kyle tried to explain that she wrote on the notebook too, but when he flipped it over remembered that she tore the back off. That's where all her writing was...


So umm.. I really don't know why I posted this.. but it's just totally outrageous and I want to know what people have to say about this. I want to record Kyle explaining it himself on my camera, then show people on the internet. He says he wouldn't mind, and it'd save me a ton of time rather than typing it out. Once I get that, I'll post it here as well.

Oh, my god. Both of those stories are so ridiculous! Psycho_Katie, I hope your stuff all works out okay.

two years ago, my schools principal was talking the usual start of the year how to follow the rules presentation, and he happened to mention that a kid was expelled from my school last year. why? because he told someone during a game of basketball that he was going to kill them. The cops searched his house, and all that crap, and the whole time he said that he meant that his team would beat the other team.

another example: my sisters ex threw a match and a can of axe into a metal trashcan, which exploded. Someone claimed that it made thier ears ring. He was taken to jail and had to pay a 30k dollar bail. all because of the fact of that someones ears were ringing. After that, he was expelled. He dropped out and is now working in a video game joint.

although life isnt fair, the government should try to make is reasonable.

Holy crap! That's really messed up (Kukushka's story too)!

I'm really glad I was (mostly) homeschooled & really REALLY glad I live in Australia (if you made a complaint like that you'd most likely get laughed at).

I have "atempted trerrorist actions" on my permident record, cause in school, I told some girls, if thay didnt STFU, I would blow up the school, with them in it! I wasnt being serious! Any one would have said something, if they had 10 frikken idiots swarming around you, asking you questions faster then you can answer! >___<

My friends and I do the exact same thing...well, no - I always buy too many notebooks by accident just in case, and we use them for that.

I have another story related to this.

My friends and I use our names as characters and we started doing a role-play type thing, and the notebook started resembling an IM thing. The role-play was mostly us insulting and threatening each other, but sometimes one of our characters would end up being the 'dominant' one who seemed to be the one who would hurt other characters. Also, the threats were starting to get more serious.

I would also like to point out that me and my five friends or so have been friends for years, long enough that our handwriting is quite similar - and we all use the same brand of pen, and usually the same or similar colors, shades of silver because that is our shared fav color.

Anyway, at one point, right when I was the 'dominant' one, when I left the notebook in our library after lunch. A teacher picked it up and started flipping through the notebook to find a name so she could return it - she found mine on the inside of the back cover and she read trough our talking.

I was called in later that day and told that I was to be suspended because, seeing as all of it looked like it was written by one person instead of many, they though I might actaully plan to carry out some of my threats.

They first called my mom and she flipped - until they read the names of my friends. Then she said this was normal and that my friends had witten it and that the only reason she wasn't going ot come over and talk to the staff was because she was stuck at work.

The staff at first didn't believe her when she said my friends wrote it.

Then the office called in my friends and told them of what 'I' had written and showed them the notebook - and they said they wrote it, and this note book was the third in a series. The staff was almost dumbfounded, and then asked why it all looked like that, and we had to explain that we had been friends since elementary school.

I (and they) were off the hook, but the story of what happened spread fast around the school, and we took our notebook contents and put them on MySpace, and soon our teachers became a joke, and people started writing 'violent threats' to their friends everywhere. It was hilarious.

The teachers seemed shocked because at first they still thought all these kids were going to carry out that threat, and seeme deven mroe surprised that seeing as none of it was serious, that we only found it hilarious.

One day a teacher, one of our cooler ones who knew of the notebook long before, read it, laughed at it, and once jokingly went through the first several pages and corrected all the grammar mistakes, asked us why we think the threats are funny, and we all said that so long as no one actaully carried it out, it was funny to think of the witty and creative things people came up with.

That was a long story...the point of it was that school officials to take thigns too seriously, because they don't understand that not much of what we say we mean literally.

Yeah, they do take things too seriously. Why is just completely beyond me seeing as they invade all our privacy as much as they legally can.

By the way, it sounds less like school officials and more like that friends of yours is manipulating them and the system.

Hope to learn more about the events.