You can be arrested for writing fiction now.
 

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So how long till Tom Clancy gets arrested for blowing up fake nuclear weapons in American cities. Does anyone else think this is a step to far?

This is ridiculous. Where I come from, we can throw people in the slammer on suspected involvement in terrorism (we've been doing it for over 30 years now) but no way would our cops do something as retarded as this.

This is the kind of thing that gives the US legal system a bad name.

this is old news. brian already posted this a week ago or something like that. and im pretty sure we have the topic for it already. but yea its funny.

Cops: I'm not playing around you little punk. Where did you hide your Necronomicon.
Kid: It's a work of fiction.
Cops: Don't lie to us kid. We know you've raised legions of undead. Now tell us where you've hidden them.

Old news. Doesn't really warrant a discussion because it will just be everyone decrying the act before you think mentality.

Edit: Re-opened due to a polite PM regarding a new perspective.

Hi. I am a dumbshit who spammed in the discussion forum. Now I got a warning. An official one. From shiney.

HINT NUDGE
Edit: Okay, shiney, I get the point.
Which is that I should have a point next time I go clickin' the 'Post Reply' button.
--Jaded

This would be rather funny...If it wasn't so god damn retarded!

For crying out loud...You can actually get arrested for writing fiction? In the USA? Makes no sense and as Dante says these are things that give your lawenforcement and your justice system a bad name.

And the kids own grandparents turned him in to the police before even confronting him about it? Just goes to show how deep in the heads of common people the fear of terrorism has been shoved in.

You can I read it once.

If you write about a story of killing some one you are "DOOMED"

If your write about haveing love with someone you are not doomed. even if the person is under age.

Our law has SUCH dummy loop holes. Go to the school, ask the teacher once...and turn the paper in. THAT EASY. Sorry XD

Just for the sake of argument here, what if we don't have the whole story?

What if the story wasn't just a "zombie outbreak" story? What if it involved characters who where "based" on students and teachers in the school, which he then proceeds to write how he kills them violently? What if it was just a thinly disguised "hit list"? You have to admit that the news story only tells the student's side of the story.

I'm not saying that it isn't stupid at face value, I'm just saying there may be other elements at play that don't come across in the story. Do you really think that cops flip through every story in creative writing waiting to find one that hints of violence and then arrests the people, and that a judge, who is probably overworked in the first place, wants to sit on a stupid case?

Like I said, all this for the sake of argument. You have to try to look at it both ways.

I always do that. But even if some characters were based on people in his school...I know plenty of writers who include aspects to their characters from people they know in real life. And in any point I did not see any indication to a fact that the boy was himself in the story killing zombies or anyone else.