Young man, put down that assault crayon right now!!!

The Department of Crap That Makes Your Eyes Roll checks in with this story about a growing menace to our society - 10-year-olds wielding deadly assault crayons:

Two boys were arrested for making pencil-and-crayon stick figure drawings depicting a 10-year-old classmate being stabbed and hung, police said. The children, charged with a felony, were taken from school in handcuffs.

The 9- and 10-year-old boys were arrested Monday and charged with making a written threat to kill or harm another person. They were also suspended from school.

So tell me where they put pencil/pen/quill/Microsoft Word to paper and actually wrote  "I'm gonna kill..."

Or are we going to start imprisoning artists when they paint stuff we don't like?

One drawing showed the two boys standing on either side of the other boy and "holding knives pointed through" his body, according to a police report. The figures were identified by written names or initials.

Another drawing showed a stick figure hanging, tears falling from his eyes, with two other stick figures standing below him. Other pieces of scrap paper listed misspelled profanities and the initials of the boy who was allegedly threatened.
Hmmm.  Maybe I should draw a picture of Robert "Sheets" Byrd hanging from a lamppost for how he treated Condi Rice this past week.

The boys' parents said they thought the children should be punished by the school and families, not the legal system.

Well, the children do  belong to the parents, rather than the state...don't they?

Well, don't they???