OMG...you got to be kidding.

[sports]

http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1072

If this keeps up forget about ever discovering the next Stephen King or Clive Barker...

Fangoria had their attention drawn to a Kentucky news site that reported today on 18-year-old Kentucky native William Poole who was arrested on terrorist charges after a piece of fiction he had penned was discovered by his grandparents and turned over to the police. "My story is based on fiction," said Poole. "It's a fake story. I made it up. I've been working on one of my short stories, (and) the short story they found was about zombies. Yes, it did say a high school. It was about a high school over ran by zombies."

Poole's zombie opus was for English class and made no threats to his school or any particular classmate, school faculty member or the police, however, a Kentucky detective says, "Anytime you make any threat or possess matter involving a school or function it's a felony in the state of Kentucky."

Wow. Just...wow.

I think we've all written a similar zombie high school story at one time or another. In fact, when I was a senior in my Connecticut high school I whipped up a piece of fiction that was basically Dawn of the Dead...except set in my school. The story came fully illustrated depicting full-blown zombie splatter. Later, I turned the story into a spec screening, albeit one I'm not proud of now. But still...

Times have changed for the worse, I suppose.

Poole now faces a $5,000 bond and now has to convince the court that the incident is all one big misunderstanding. Click the link below for the full story.


Wow,....what a bunch of shit heads.

[SirGodzilla]

I hate it when these new laws that have been used to prevent school violence and terrorism, stifle creativity. I also find it disturbing that his grandparents turned him in, couldn't they have at least talked to him about it, instead of involving the police?

[sports]

:( grandparents must not be horror fans?

[the_dudefather]

i made a text game in access based on a school wide zombie attack years ago :lol

[FS]

that movie sucks, sports

[mburbank]

It's a very wierd thing. A friend of mine recomended the Natlamp piece to a gentleman who knows me only as an acquaintance. he read it and wanted to know if I was "All Right", as if the very idea of fiction, or writting in another voice were completely foreign, as if all writting by someone you knew must be 'confessional' or even true.

[Anonymous]

this has probably been the max piece i've liked the least in your career but it still made me smile :> you should do some of the 'my wild life' series with them, those were incredible ;<

*uh, what? was i retarded or something this day ;<

[Archduke Tips]

REVOLUTION! :(

[Studio8]

Kentucky sounds lame

[Baz@rr]

Damn good job they didn't set Buffy the Vampire Slayer in Kentucky or they'd all have gotten life.

Actually it's probably a good job they didn't set it in Kentucky for a whole host of reasons.

[Matt Harty]

What the fuck? Something like this happened to my friend yesterday.

His Mass Media class was doing short movies. They had to make storyboards as part of the project. The movie happened to be about zombies and the storyboard had blood and zombies being stabbed and crap.

So he accidently leaves it in the cafeteria and suddenly a load of cops are showing up and questioning the kid. They told him the picture was too violent to be seen in school. The fucking picture was a bunch of green stick people with red lines running from them.

The same thing happened where another friend had to make a music video and it contained someone dying. They sent him to the school psycologist.

[FS]

All in line with expelling young kids because they play cops & robbers. Everyone thinks people are stupider and crazier than they are.