Yet Another ‘zOMG Student Writes a Death Note!’ Thing
Edit: Er, sorry for the HTML error there (stupid ’s and “s). Serves me right for not checking before I left.
According to WKRN Nashville, a couple of kids at Walter J. Baird Middle School put together a Death Note list featuring dates, times, and sometimes manners in which their classmates should die. Parents found out and got upset, including one anonymous parent in particular who suggests that this list could be a warning sign for those kids, like the ones that were spotted but generally ignored in the Columbine and Virginia Tech cases.
This is, for the record, separate from the Virginia high school that had a Death Note instance back in November. Like that kid, these new two in Nashville have been suspended, in this case pending a disciplinary hearing.
This article never actually mentions the Death Note manga or anime, although their use of the phrase “Death Note” in the headline suggests that they heard SOMEthing about it, since “death note” would be an odd way to phrase it in American English (you’d expect, y’know, “death list” or “blacklist.”)
Meh, USians.
[...] Gia Manry, a.k.a. Giapet, has been posting on anime and manga to watch for in 2008 at Fanboy.com. Check out her comments on Gakuen Alice, which is currently making the rounds at my house (and good news for Tokyopop: Both my teenage daughters liked it). Back at her own blog, Gia spots another kid-writes-a-Death-Note story. [...]
[...] is this, Death Note week? Tags: death note, mainstream mediaFirst Virginia, then Tennessee, and now Massachusetts, there are Death Note lists everywhere, I guess. And the reactions are only [...]
I’m one of the moms from the mass case. As an FYI you may want to take this more seriously my son was arrested and no there is nothing that they aren’t telling you. Except that my home was searched, by my request and no weapons were found and nobody at the time felt there was a threat. He is facing expulsion from school and possibly jail time. Our lives will never be the same.
Omg….. ppl know that a death note is fake and that no one would die….then the parents thought it was a sign from the whole Columbine and Virginia Tech cases. wow….plus they are young..they don’t mean it in a bad way…GOSH