Saw this on BoingBoing. Personally I think things are going way too far in the wrong direction. Taking it seriously is just completely over the deep end. What teenager doesn’t have a group of people they really dislike? Can you honestly tell me that when you were a teenager, you didn’t wish someone was dead?

Six girls at a rural high school were charged with homicide conspiracy after their principal found a list of 300 names and officials discovered online postings suggesting they kill people, authorities said Thursday.

School officials said the list, discovered in a classroom trash can, mostly named students and faculty members but also included Tom Cruise, Oprah Winfrey and the Energizer Bunny.

Sequatchie County High School Principal Tommy Layne said that he initially considered it a joke, but that authorities then found the ninth-graders’ online MySpace pages and postings that included the word “kill.”

“In general terms, it was like, ‘Let’s kill these people,’ ” Dunlap Police Chief Clint Huth said. He declined to provide the specific wording on the posting, which has been removed.

“I am not saying we thwarted a shooting incident or an act of violence,” Huth said. “On the other hand, had this gone unchecked, down the road it could have grown into something a whole lot more serious than a list of names.”

There was no evidence that the girls had weapons or that an attack had been imminent, Huth said.

Girls charged with conpiring to kill classmates, Oprah – CNN.com

FFS! Even I can’t stand Tom Cruise at all. If I ever wrote a list like that, he’d be on it. Oprah… Well, maybe if I watched TV at all and saw her show so I knew what was so bad about her… But for the most part she doesn’t even register in my universe.

And who hasn’t wanted to beat the living snot out of the Energizer bunny just to see how long he really can keep going? And going… And going… And going… And going… And going… :-P (Okay, so I’m mixing Eveready. Owned by the same company) :-)

Kids are being kids. To take this seriously shows that the adults have forgotten what its like to be a kid. Its not cool to threaten to kill someone, but these were just kids saying who they dislike. Its not a conspiracy. To send them to Juvi just because of something like this. :-/ Screwed up to say the least.

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