{"id":332,"date":"2005-02-28T22:10:06","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T03:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=332"},"modified":"2005-02-28T22:10:06","modified_gmt":"2005-03-01T03:10:06","slug":"on-kentucky-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"On Kentucky Zombies"},"content":{"rendered":"

This belongs in the annals of stupidity. A Kentucky high school student was arrested as a possible terrorist for writing a short story about zombies attacking a high school.<\/a> From the article:<\/p>\n

Winchester police say William Poole, 18, was taken into custody Tuesday morning. Investigators say they discovered materials at Poole’s home that outline possible acts of violence aimed at students, teachers, and police.<\/p>\n

Poole told LEX 18 that the whole incident is a big misunderstanding. He claims that what his grandparents found in his journal and turned into police was a short story he wrote for English class.<\/p>\n

“My story is based on fiction,” said Poole, who faces a second-degree felony terrorist threatening charge. “It’s a fake story. I made it up. I’ve been working on one of my short stories, (and) the short story they found was about zombies. Yes, it did say a high school. It was about a high school over ran by zombies.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s think this through. He wrote a short story about zombies<\/i>. We may as well tell kids they can’t read teen horror fiction. We may as well tell kids they can’t read<\/i>. Sodding bloody hell.<\/p>\n

More from the article:<\/p>\n

Even so, police say the nature of the story makes it a felony. “Anytime you make any threat or possess matter involving a school or function it’s a felony in the state of Kentucky,” said Winchester Police detective Steven Caudill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s think this through. He wrote a short story about frelling zombies<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Zombies don’t exist. You can’t overrun a high school with zombies because they don’t frelling<\/i> exist.<\/p>\n

By that standard, I should have been put away in junior high school when I wrote a short story based on V<\/i> in which the visitors overran my school and captured my principal.<\/p>\n

The Visitors? They don’t exist, either.<\/p>\n

Terrorism, my ass. There has to be a point where something is so clearly fictional as to be beyond dispute. Zombies would, in any sane person’s view, clearly beyond to a fictional world. If someone wants to argue that there really are zombies, that they can overrun high schools and terrorize students, that person would be seriously off his meds.<\/p>\n

Stupidity. Fucking stupidity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This belongs in the annals of stupidity. A Kentucky high school student was arrested as a possible terrorist for writing a short story about zombies attacking a high school. From the article: Winchester police say William Poole, 18, was taken into custody Tuesday morning. Investigators say they discovered materials at Poole’s home that outline possibleContinue reading “On Kentucky Zombies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[767,933,384],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-censorship","tag-william-poole","tag-zombies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}