scenario...your views?

[twinkles**stars]

How would you react to this scenario?

Driving along a road you see a young boy in school uniform on his way to school waving a gun and knife at passing traffic.

Would you ignore him or take steps to ensure the gun and knife are 'toys' and not the real deal?

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

He has done nothing wrong.

He was playing with the same toys that millions of other children in Australia play with.

Except, he had his path crossed by someone who has contacted his school, the police and was it the board of education.

He has become the victim of TS's hysteria. Sounds like unfair treatment to me.

Toy weapons are not illegal.

[cherry*135]

From school rules ( ACT):

Toys and Games

Bring safe toys to school. Keep them inside for “news” and other classroom activities that your teacher has organised. Some of the things that are not safe to bring to school are ropes, wooden cricket bats, sharp ended objects such as pocket knives, and toy guns. 

[joz*garage]

i agree with am# now, so yes i was a norti boy once or twice, but im a good one now

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

Apparently, he wasn't at school.  He might have been out the front of his house for all TS knows.

Where are the laws regarding  kids playing with toy guns on footpaths.

This is just a case of someone becoming hysterically alarmed.  

[joz*garage]

i think it must count if the kid is on the way to school, siggie

[cherry*135]

There are plenty more examples of schools and pre-schools that ban toy guns & knives from their establishments. Toy guns are not acceptable anymore to many people. Times and attitudes change.

Some more examples of school rules:

- Leave at home all: 
Toy guns, knives or sling shots  (QLD)

 -  No toy guns or knives are permitted at school. (Noble Park)

-  Feb: 2013 - A VICTORIAN teacher who had a toy gun pulled on her by a pupil in a misguided prank is claiming hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation from the Education Department and the former student.

Suzanne May Tyson, 54, claims she may never work again due to stress after believing the $2 plastic gun pointed at her by then 16-year-old Mooroopna Secondary College student Adam Tyler Dorsett was real.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/teacher-sues-education-department-ex-pupil-over-toy-gun-p...

[*elizabeths-mum*]

What a sad society we live in now. I agree with siggie in ideal but I still think ts did the right thing contacting the school. If it had been real weapons, imagine knowing you might have been able to stop it.

[*crikey*mate*]

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@lakeland27 wrote:

in your opinion. at a school in this region a boy took dads gun to school this year, and it was only luck and some good intelligence that averted a potential disaster.  i think ts actions are to be praised.  i like the idea of people actually doing something when it might prove helpful.

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I agree. I think Twinks has done the right thing.

If it was innocent, then no harm done.

Even without the "weapons", he was distracting traffic, he was endangering his own life and that of others.

I'm not sure if calling the school or the police would have been my first response, but certainly one of them. At least Twinks did something and alerted someone.

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

He might have been out the front of his house Joz.

If the schools reaction was to laugh......doesn't sound like they are against toy guns either.

If a little boy was having fun before school...kudos to him.   Too many people want to suck the fun out of kids lives these days...let

them play.

[*crikey*mate*]

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

He might have been out the front of his house Joz.

If the schools reaction was to laugh......doesn't sound like they are against toy guns either.

If a little boy was having fun before school...kudos to him.   Too many people want to suck the fun out of kids lives these days...let

them play.

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in the traffic?