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FUCKING RETARDED :rolleyes:

 

http://www.fortbendnow.com/news/2850/fbisd-police-found-5-swords-at-home-of-student-removed-from-clements-over-computer-game

Police discovered five swords in the bedroom of a Clements High School senior whose home they searched after getting complaints about a 3-D computer “shoot-‘em-up” game map the student designed, which depicted a portion of the school.

 

That information surfaced in a Fort Bend Independent School District Police Department report released Tuesday, and was confirmed by several district officials who also revealed other details about the case for the first time.

 

The student, whose name has not been released, was not arrested or charged by FBISD police, however, he was removed from Clements and transferred to M.R. Wood Alternative Education Center several days ago. Officials said he also complied with a police order to delete the game and game maps from his computer.

 

FBISD officials said Tuesday school administrators weighed the violent nature of the computer game – a modified version of Counterstrike – along with the discovery of swords in the boy’s room, and other undisclosed information, and decided to classify the matter as a “Level 3” situation.

 

The district’s student handbook defines “Level 3” as an incident in which a student “engages in conduct relating to a false alarm or report (including a bomb threat) or a terroristic threat involving a public school.” A Level 3 incident, according to district policy, results in mandatory transfer to M.R. Wood.

 

Two sources close to the case said it’s questionable whether the swords were usable as weapons, indicating they may have been decorative.

 

The incident came to light after the boy’s mother, Jean Lin, expressed her concern over her son’s punishment to FBISD Board trustees in an executive session during an April 23 meeting. About 70 members of the area Chinese community also attended the meeting to show support for the family. Some said the boy and his family were upset to learn he may not be allowed to attend graduation ceremonies with this Clements classmates.

 

The matter erupted into a political controversy on Monday, at what was to have been a special FBISD board meeting, called by trustees Ken Bryant and Stan Magee to discuss the boy’s case further.

 

Board President Steve Smelley and trustees Laurie Caldwell, Cynthia Knox and Sonal Bhuchar failed to show for the meeting. With only Trustee Lisa Rickert, Bryant and Magee, the board had no quorum and the meeting had to be abruptly canceled, much to the chagrin of many of the 120 or so people who showed up in support of the Lin family.

 

On Tuesday, Magee and Bryant called for another special meeting (see related story).

 

School district officials initially declined to discuss any details of the case, citing privacy concerns and a general policy against revealing information about disciplinary cases.

 

But a day after Magee and former FBISD board trustee Naomi Lam criticized the district for disciplining the boy over a matter that took place entirely off campus, the school district provided new details of the incident and a rationale for its actions.

 

Magee said Tuesday he doesn’t believe the boy is a threat to fellow students at Clements, and said he doesn’t believe administrators believe he is, either.

 

“I feel we went beyond our jurisdiction,” he added. “If he put something on a computer at Clements, that’s different – but he didn’t do that. I think we’ve jumped the gun here.”

 

The FBISD administration sees it differently.

 

“When you have the floor plan of a high school that houses over 2,000 students in a game about killing people, you have to have consequences,” FBISD spokeswoman Mary Ann Simpson said. “And also realizing what the reaction would be in the community,” district administrators “still felt very confident in their decision.”

 

“Ever since Columbine, anything that remotely looks like a threat has to be taken very seriously,” Simpson said. “The minute we don’t, something serious is going to happen.

 

“You’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”

 

Some observers in the case and Magee have suggested district administrators overreacted to complaints about the Clements student’s computer game by two or three parents in part because he is Asian, as was the perpetrator of the recent Virginia Tech shootings.

 

Simpson disagreed sharply with that assessment.

 

“That has absolutely nothing to do with this decision,” she said. “The decision was based on the potential for violence in this game, which used one of our high schools as a backdrop.”

 

Officials also weighed whether there might be a connection between the swords found in the boy’s room, and “weapons depicted in the game itself,” Simpson said. “You see these big, dark hands with knives in them” in the boy’s modified Counterstrike version.

 

While no charges were filed against the boy, both Simpson and Smelley said other mitigating circumstances – which they declined to specify – came to light as a result of the police search.

 

“Unfortunately, there are some other things, even though no criminal charges were filed,” Simpson said.

 

“They got more stuff that doesn’t look too good,” Smelley said.

 

 

i wonder if the co-workers of the guy who made cs_office felt uneasy?

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this is so fucking retarded. "BIG DARK HANDS WITH KNIVES IN THEM"

 

 

so why couldn't the school board have just handled this quietly...instead of jumping the gun and attacking the problem, why couldn't they just have....you know...asked the kid? talked to his parents? done something rational perhaps???

 

its fucking counterstrike. its A VIDEO GAME! jesus they're gonna uncover so much dirt on this kid to make him look like a terrorist and its gonna suck.

 

 

who here can safely say that they were so angelic in high school that if the police raided everything they own that they couldn't connect you with being a terrorist.

 

i still have several bows and carbon fiber/aluminum arrows in my room, a large Toledo Steel sword, and random other shit i'm sure they could use to portray me as a violent person. i'm sure at some point i've said to someone "i sure do hate my high school" or "fuck this guy, i wouldn't mind if he was dead" purely out of spite. doesn't make me a fucking terrorist.

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How the fuck can police order someone to delete a legal game from your personal PC that your parents let you play????? The representation for the family must not have passed the bar......

 

I guess he is guilty of being Asian afer the VT fucktard.

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I heard a great point on this from another forum/digg. People make maps of the surroundings they know like their house or town. Something they know, easy to remember. He knew his school, so he made a map of it. I've wanted to make a Whempy's LAN map before of our warehouse, I know that place.
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I posted a long response on their local news site. They got so many hits from the gaming community their servers were crashed for 2 days. It was hilarious. I made a map of my highschool way back in the day for HL and never thought twice about. Paranoia is king in todays America.
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I posted a long response on their local news site. They got so many hits from the gaming community their servers were crashed for 2 days. It was hilarious. I made a map of my highschool way back in the day for HL and never thought twice about. Paranoia is king in todays America.

 

 

 

WOW, I was thinking the same thing. In highschool I made a DooM2 level of the basic outline of our hs. I never fucking thought twice about it. Actually I made it sitting in the computer lab and we deathmatched it. I'm pretty sure we still played it after columbine I'm pretty sure.

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I heard a great point on this from another forum/digg. People make maps of the surroundings they know like their house or town. Something they know, easy to remember. He knew his school, so he made a map of it. I've wanted to make a Whempy's LAN map before of our warehouse, I know that place.

 

 

 

ohhh yeah GG_whempys. put a shaft from in the main office to the loft, A few whempys trucks in the main area. OHH FUCK YEAH.

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WOW, I was thinking the same thing. In highschool I made a DooM2 level of the basic outline of our hs. I never fucking thought twice about it. Actually I made it sitting in the computer lab and we deathmatched it. I'm pretty sure we still played it after columbine I'm pretty sure.

 

Thats hilarious, I was doing some texture editing for the map while in my schools lab. LOL.

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ahah thats funny, I made a damn near exact replica cs map of my high school "New Albany" for a school project. Damn I wonder if I still have that saved somewhere.. Probably is not compatible with 1.6.. I made it back in 1.3/4 days.
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ohhh yeah GG_whempys. put a shaft from in the main office to the loft, A few whempys trucks in the main area. OHH FUCK YEAH.

 

If I knew how, hell, it'd be our tournament map with attendees as hostages in the upstairs back room! haha!

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