Crap like this *really* annoys me...

[acroyear]

Kid gets arrested for Civil War Reenactment stuff (well, including the musket) in his car in the high school parking lot...

It was in the trunk, never pulled out, simply there because he didn't clean his car out after an event, and instead of a warning or a discussion (or the OBVIOUS fact that it was part of a costume), he's cuffed and dragged off campus to the police station.

I so hope there's a serious lawsuit out of this one, because its yet another example of how zero-tolerance is destroying the schools its trying to protect...

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[alliesutherland.livejournal.com]

He's not the first. Since I'm involved in CWR, I know of many kids this has happened to personally (as well as more than once case of a cop trying to pull "concealed weapons" charges on having arms in the trunk (which the person acknowledges) "hidden" (words of the cop) under layers of tents, rubber blankets, etc.

Yep. Black powder and dry Cream of Wheat (to make the "smoke" effect is some deadly shit, yo.