18 year old horror writer arrested... On terrorist charges?

[ShadowWolf]

Don't know if this is the right board to post this but I decided to give it a shot. I found this article quite interesting:



From Fangoria Online

March 3: Teen horror writer arrested as terrorist

Kentucky’s Lex 18 news site reports that an 18-year-old high-school student is facing terrorist threat charges because of a zombie story he wrote for his English class. William Poole, an 18-year-old student at George Rogers Clark High School, was arrested after his grandparents found the tale, in which the undead attack a high school, in his journal and turned it over to police. "I’ve been working on one of my short stories, [and] the short story they found was about zombies," Poole told Lex 18. "Yes, it did say a high school. It was about a high school overrun by zombies." Despite the obviously fantastical nature of his writing, and the fact that neither his own school nor any real people, school officials or police were mentioned in the story, Poole was taken into custody on a second-degree felony terrorist threatening charge. "Anytime you make any threat or possess matter involving a school or function, it’s a felony in the state of Kentucky," Winchester Police detective Steven Caudill told Lex 18. A judge even raised Poole’s bond from $1,000 to $5,000 at the prosecutors’ request, due to the "seriousness" of the charges. Poole is currently being held at the Clark County Detention Center.

[Conekiller]

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EDIT: Methinks this might be some hyperreligious/patriotic grandparents who have tried to teach this kid their beleifs, but he wouldn't. There is no possible way that there isn't more going on behind the scenes. I mean, what kind of logical people would imprison their own family member for writing an obviously fictitious story for a school project?! My faith in the judicial system plummets more and more every day:sad:

[RD!]

Good. I'm glad this kid was put in jail before he could come to school with his best friend's dad's zombies and overrun the place. See? The system does work. Take that, Moore.

EDIT: What kind of kid writes a zombie story for school?

[SSJPabs]

EDIT: What kind of kid writes a zombie story for school?Poole claims it was in his journal and that it didn't mention names of anyone in the school, the name of the school itself, or anyone in the area. in the original LEX 18 (http://www.lex18.com/global/story.asp?s=2989614&ClientType=Printable) story. So it might not even have been for school. So basically this kid was working on his own little RE fanfiction or movie script and gets arrested for terrorism.

Grandparents.

YOUR OWN GRANDPARENTS!

OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!!!

[Sailor Chibi Otaku]

Freedom of speech is becoming a thing of the past. :(

It's FICTION, you ^%%^*%^^%*%&$%&%@@@@!!!!!!!!!

I'll sign a petition to set him free!!

[Lord Dalek]

EDIT: What kind of kid writes a zombie story for school?One of my buddies once wrote a story of John Irving (who is AFIK not currently deceased) rising from the grave to do justice on the makers of Simon Birch. That was good.

Sorry, forums not a place for nostalgic waxing.

[Watagashi]

....... Yeeeeeah.... Stupidity reigns in many places. -_-;; I mean come on, how many stories are out there about something attacking a realistic place?? Many. It's just ridiculous arresting a kid for a short story... It was a STORY. Sure, it would be very reasonable if they had found a hit list or some artillery or something, but all they found was a fictional piece written in a kid's past time. :shrug: They've gone a little too far on this one.

[shoujoaifan]

.....................................words can not describe my complete horror at the depravity of the grandparents and Kentucky state government. Maybe I should write those words with which I can't say enough how much this is ridiculous in a more polite manner, but then again its not like the grandparents or KY state government would read this, so there's no need to be polite and patiently point out their fanaticism without actually calling it that to their faces. In short, they're ****ing messed up.

[cross blues]

that's just pathetic. they better hope their actions didn't piss that guy off too much. writers have great imaginations. I'm sure he could dream up something crazy to get vengeance.

[Ben]

I have one thing to say to that kid: Get out of Kentucky as soon as you possibly can.

[Lil' Joker]

Next two items of religibot gramgram's hitlist:
Capcom and RE crew for producing a game where you kill mexicans with a hack saw (or atleast someone TOLD me they were mexican)
Core/Eidos for adverising the raiding of sacred religious places (Tomb raider, for you dum dums out there)

This is just utterly retarded. Why in the hell was ol' gram gram in her granson's personal belongings, anyway?

[Queen of Hearts]

They were afraid of his little zombie characters???........ People are really, really, really...Nuts. People can't see the difference reality from fantasy.:shrug:

[ZorBrak]

absolute bull**** things like this make me sad to live in the US these days...

This has my eyebrows raised...I'm writing a comic series involving zombies right now in fact and guess what?! it involves some events on a college campus in the mountains...omfg just like my campus!!!111one!!! i must want to make zombies attack my school because i'm a terrorist!!!!111111one!!111hundred!11111!!!

I guess the writers of Resident Evil Apocalypse should be arrested as terrorists for having the characters in that bad movie go into an elementary school too.

[William C. Maune]

absolute bull**** things like this make me sad to live in the US these days...

First of all, I'm not singling you out. There have been some other similar comments in the thread. Anyway, while this situation is definitely just stupid and hopefully things will still right themselves, it is still only one situation involving a few people out of the 300 million in the U.S. This situation alone doesn't mean the U.S. is going to pot or that we are losing our freedom of speech. No matter how many protections you put on things like freedom of speech, there will always be a few stupid people out there and stupid situations will arise. Hopefully as this situation gets into the courts the system will work as it should, some judge will take note of the situation and the charges will be dropped (and then the person can get the hell out of Kentucky).

[Cactus Gunman]

If my grandparents had ever done that to me they'd never see my face again and all connections with them would be severed. Why didn't they even bother to confront him before they sent it to the police? They could have cleared the whole thing up but they just decided to involve the authorities. Why were they even looking through his journal in the first place?

I myself wrote a gruesome story that I had to read in front of my speech class back in high school and my teacher really liked it. There's no doubt that I would have been charged for terrorist threats if those jerks had gotten their hands on it.

[Fone Bone]

One of my buddies once wrote a story of John Irving (who is AFIK not currently deceased) rising from the grave to do justice on the makers of Simon Birch. That was good.

Sorry, forums not a place for nostalgic waxing.I'D read that story.

I have one thing to say to that kid: Get out of Kentucky as soon as you possibly can. Does this mean it was true when Craig Kilborn called it Kensucky?


If my grandparents had ever done that to me they'd never see my face again and all connections with them would be severed. Why didn't they even bother to confront him before they sent it to the police? They could have cleared the whole thing up but they just decided to involve the authorities. Why were they even looking through his journal in the first place?

I myself wrote a gruesome story that I had to read in front of my speech class back in high school and my teacher really liked it. There's no doubt that I would have been charged for terrorist threats if those jerks had gotten their hands on it. This story is wild. Those are some MESSED UP grandparents. To paraphrase Calvin: "You know those letters to Dear Abby where old people complain that their children never call or write or visit? Those letters really crack me up."

I hope they get put into the crooked nursing home Homer Simpson saw on 60 Minutes.

[oranthal]

"Anytime you make any threat or possess matter involving a school or function, it’s a felony in the state of Kentucky," Winchester Police detective Steven Caudill told Lex 18. A judge even raised Poole’s bond from $1,000 to $5,000 at the prosecutors’ request, due to the "seriousness" of the charges. Poole is currently being held at the Clark County Detention Center.

Does the judge believe this person to be an actual threat to the school or is he/she judging based on the Kentucky law?

[LightShadow1890]

How lame. It said nothing with real people or the school or anything real, so why arrest him? It's just fiction. And there's not way that science can bring back the undead (unethical).


People...IT'S FICTION!

[Frank Castle]

As a fan of Resident Evil I must say I'm outraged. Freedom of speech doesn't even apply to this country anymore.:sad:

[JetMaster5]

Before I even decide whether the kid deserves punishment or not, I wanna read the contents in that story. Hopefully, he'll post it online someday.