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A 16-year-old high school student in the US was arrested and suspended from his school for writing about shooting dead his neighbour's pet dinosaur during a creative writing exercise.
Alex Stone, 16, is a student of Summerville High School in South Carolina.
"I could understand if they made him rewrite it because he did have 'gun' in it," said mother Karen Gray.
"I mean, first of all, we don't have dinosaurs anymore. Second, he's not even old enough to buy a gun," she was quoted as saying by WCSC-TV.
Stone said his class was given an assignment on Tuesday to write a few sentences about themselves, and to list a "status" as if they were completing a Facebook post.
The teen wrote "I killed my neighbor's pet dinosaur". In the status section, Stone said, he wrote, "I bought the gun to take care of the business".
"I don't see the harm in it," Stone said. "I think there might have been a better way of putting it, but I think my writing like that shouldn't matter unless I target another person."
His mother said she was angry that the school administrators did not call her before contacting police, who arrested her son and also charged him with disorderly conduct after he argued with officers.
"I never heard from the school, never. They never called me," Ms Gray said.
Attorney David Aylor, who is representing Stone, said his client's arrest was "completely absurd. "This is a perfect example of political correctness that has exceeded the boundaries of common sense," Mr Aylor said in a statement.
Alex Stone, 16, is a student of Summerville High School in South Carolina.
"I could understand if they made him rewrite it because he did have 'gun' in it," said mother Karen Gray.
"I mean, first of all, we don't have dinosaurs anymore. Second, he's not even old enough to buy a gun," she was quoted as saying by WCSC-TV.
Stone said his class was given an assignment on Tuesday to write a few sentences about themselves, and to list a "status" as if they were completing a Facebook post.
The teen wrote "I killed my neighbor's pet dinosaur". In the status section, Stone said, he wrote, "I bought the gun to take care of the business".
"I don't see the harm in it," Stone said. "I think there might have been a better way of putting it, but I think my writing like that shouldn't matter unless I target another person."
His mother said she was angry that the school administrators did not call her before contacting police, who arrested her son and also charged him with disorderly conduct after he argued with officers.
"I never heard from the school, never. They never called me," Ms Gray said.
Attorney David Aylor, who is representing Stone, said his client's arrest was "completely absurd. "This is a perfect example of political correctness that has exceeded the boundaries of common sense," Mr Aylor said in a statement.
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