Nov 22 2008
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Florida student arrested for farting in class
Back in 1968, the Supreme Court decided a landmark case called Tinker v. Desmoines. At the root of the dispute was the right of several high school students to wear black armbands in protest of the Vietnam war. It pitted freedom of speech against maintaining order in the classroom.
Well it may have been 40 years ago, but it’s like Tinker all over again down in Stuart, FL, where a 13 year old boy was arrested for repeatedly and intentionally breaking wind in class.
He was charged with “disruption of a school function.” It would have been way cooler if the cop had charged him with “disrupting a school function with a bodily function.”
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