This is interesting

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10 Young Students Strip-Searched in Texas

Fri Jan 7,10:06 PM ET

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LA MARQUE, Texas - Ten students between the ages of 11 and 12 were strip-searched as officials at their charter school tried to find a missing $10 bill.

Seven girls and three boys at the Mainland Preparatory Academy were searched down to their underwear Thursday after one of the girls reported the money missing, said Principal Wilma Green. The money was not found.

“It’s not illegal,” La Marque Police Chief Richard Price said. “We don’t see it as a criminal offense.” But he said an investigation was underway.

The search angered at least one parent, who filed a complaint with police and pulled her four children out of the school.

“I have never signed a consent to let my kids be strip-searched — never,” said Shelli Owens, the mother of a 12-year-old boy who was searched.

Green said the school has conducted such searches in the past without calling parents.

“Never had a complaint,” she said. “I can’t say if it happened again I wouldn’t do the same thing.”

In Thursday’s search, the boys were sent off with a male teacher and the girls with a female teacher, who told them to strip to their underwear, Green said.

“Nobody objected to it. Most of the kids didn’t mind because they wanted to get their name cleared,” she said. “It was no different than what the students would be doing when they would be in P.E. We searched everything down to the socks.”

La Marque is about 40 miles southeast of Houston.

(So they never thought of gay pedophiles %| )

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I don’t think we needed to know that, it’s kind of too off topic.

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How can something be too off-topic? A post is either blender related or not.

Maybe we should have an “off-topic” and a “more off-topic” section. Also perhaps a “Even more off-topic” thread just incase.

Then I suppose you’d have to go the other way, so “Only slightly off-topic” “a little more off topic” etc etc.

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Thassit!

Anyway, my point is I don’t think anyone really wants to know this sort of stuff.

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I think the point he’s trying to make is that he’d like to be stripped search by an homosexual pedophile.
That’s the impression I get anyway… %|

Martin

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Keep your dirty thoughts to yourself. :o

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I agree that this sort of thing “really isn’t related to Blender,” and doesn’t belong here. It does belong in the public’s eye … squarely in the public’s eye … but this is not the place.

We are, unfortunately, in a time that is testing what American citizens will and will not accept in the name of “security.” In a world where “‘the best you can hope for’ is equal to ‘the worst that you will put up with,’” I hope that this person is no less than imprisoned. But discussions of that nature belong elsewhere.

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I hope that this person is no less than imprisoned.

Now, now… all he did was post an offtopic-topic in the off-topic topics.

%<

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Your wrong. Very wrong I think. This sort of thing is, to me, disturbing. If it were ignored and did not get any negative attention then it would go on unchecked. I personally am grateful to Al Capone for posting this. Of course it would be easier to never hear about the bad things that happen in the world, but that would only make matters worse.

Zarf

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If I had to go through that I would so likely want to get revenge on the school. And I would probably attempt to beat up the person who was searching beforehand. But since i’m a nice guy I would get out of there and report this injustice behavior of the staff.

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Why you thinking I’m trying to make a point, it’s just news. Don’t know what everyone is so worked up about.

And since when did the off topic thread had to do with blender, read the title in the Forum Index. Otherwise leave out the stuff “What did you get for Christman” and other crap.

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Your wrong. Very wrong I think. This sort of thing is, to me, disturbing. If it were ignored and did not get any negative attention then it would go on unchecked. I personally am grateful to Al Capone for posting this. Of course it would be easier to never hear about the bad things that happen in the world, but that would only make matters worse.

Zarf[/quote]
I don’t want to argue with you here, but are you saying we should post these news stories all the time?

I see stories like this nearly every night on the TV news and I don’t come here to hear about them again.

I agree that we can’t just ignore it and hope it doesn’t happen again, that’s why we have websites such as CNN and Yahoo, etc. If you want to read these stories then go to a news website.

btw, as you can see, this off-topic topic has already gone completely off-topic and I don’t think anyone wants to discuss whether it’s ok or not to strip search school kids.

I do hope the case is investigated as the article suggests that no action is being taken.

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WTF are you people crying about this time.

If the guy wants to post a freaking news article here HE DAMN WELL CAN. It’s not spam and nobody gives a shit if you didn’t want to see it. Quit whining.

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I’m not saying it’s ok, I just find it odd that schools can do that. Never in my life time had I heard such things. Ofcourse it does make you wonder, what will kids go through to get themself clear ?

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LOL this is funny.

/me gets out the popcorn.

Alltaken

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Corrupt
Corrupt
C.O.R.R.U.P.T

Please turn around your ways Alltaken. Turn to a good life.

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Corrupt
Corrupt
C.O.R.R.U.P.T

Please turn around your ways Alltaken. Turn to a good life.[/quote]

I would call it a good life :smiley:

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You don’t even know what “good life” means don’t you.

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According to you it’s a God that believe in beating gays for fun.

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According to you, it’s being a total moron it seems