Quoting meme about 'blowing up'(getting famous) gets 6th grader suspended, arrested (1 Viewer)

[Chock Full o Nuts]

Meme mix-up lands Colorado City Middle School 6th grader in cuffs for terroristic threat

Repeating a popular meme got a 6th grader at Colorado City Middle School escorted out of class, suspended, and arrested. The student was accused of making a ter

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“My main goal is to blow up,” Indicas Koonaloak-Young said. “That’s all I could get out before the teacher interrupted me. The full meme is my main goal is to blow up and act like I don’t know nobody.”

Koonaloak-Young says he has dreams of making it big as an artist. The student claims his teacher misunderstood the meme he was quoting by a rapper named Riff Raff, and thought he was threatening to blow up the school.

The 11-year-old says last Friday things continued to get worse when the police knocked on his door.
“My dad came out and talked to them,” Koonaloak-Young said. He figured out that I’m getting arrested for a terroristic threat.”

I understand the tension these days, and 'zero tolerance', but come on now..
Look the damn meme up(phones right there? ), use it as a teaching moment I guess, and let it go.

 

[phoenix2020]

Well, good news is that the kid is going to blow up over some silly teacher thinking that he was going to blow something up. I guess he wins in the end!

 

[lwf]

Reminds me of this:

 

[Chock Full o Nuts]

Well, good news is that the kid is going to blow up over some silly teacher thinking that he was going to blow something up. I guess he wins in the end!

He got 'street cred' now!

 

[Chock Full o Nuts]

Reminds me of this:

That was a good one.

 

[Peter]

I'm not sure about you guys but I'm pretty sure it would have been impossible for 11 year old me to get hold of enough explosives to blow anything up.

 

[Allan]

Why didn't someone just talk to the student before calling the cops?

Sheesh.

 

[Ginger Ale]

Reminds me of this:

OMG! So funny!

 

[Ginger Ale]

Poor kid!