Apparently, yes. Neil Pollack reports on the case of a teenager jailed for a short story he wrote about his high school being over run by brain eating zombies.
I was not at all sirprised to see Neil Gaiman was already all over this.
"Lots of people writing to draw my attention to this story, in which William Poole, accused here of trying to "recruit a gang to take over the school," Detective Berl Perdue said.
"He didn't have a gang, but he was attempting to organize one," Perdue said. Police said writings in which Poole tried to persuade other students to take part in the takeover were found. This article explains that the writings in question were a short story written for English class about a zombie attack. I'd be more inclined to doubt Mr Poole if there hadn't been a number of similar cases of the authorities being unable to tell the difference between fact and fiction (one of which I wound up joining Harlan Ellison, Michael Chabon, Peter Straub and others in an amicus brief, for a California teen who was expelled after showing classmates his poetry), including, famously, the Mike Diana case."
I think it's time someone in Clark County, Kentucky reads the Bill of Rights. If they need help understanding it, perhaps a member of the ACLU would be willing to help?
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The police in this are kind of dumb, but if that stupid law is really a law they have to follow up on it. The ones I can't get over are these dumbass grandparents. Who reads a story about zombies and thinks it's secretly about an armed takeover of the school. Idiots! Though listening to this kid talk, his grammar needs some work...
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