works of fiction now classifiable as terrorist threats

[wand_r]

http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=2989614

Apparently, writing a work of fiction dealing with, say, zombies overrunning a high school (not even specifically your high school) can net you felony charges for making terrorist threats in the state of Kentucky .

Oh hey,

Comments

[_blackjack_]

This story is actually from 2005, and I seem to recall they eventually discovered there was nothing they could charge the kid with.

Ah, yes, here it is:

http://penusa.org/go/news/comments/415/

Anyway, when I think of some of the stuff I wrote in High School (including a play specifically about taking the whole audience hostage at gunpoint) I can say I was very lucky to have been in the pre-Columbine, pre-9/11 era.

Although I did get suspended for having a hammer and sickle in my car senior year...

[wand_r]

well, dammit... that was in my inbox this morning... Glad he wasn't actually charged with anything.

Yeah, we all kinda lucked out.

Why were you toting around a hammer and sickle?