Prolific Graffiti Vandal Arrested, Punished
A 12-year-old girl from Queens was led out of her school in handcuffs after she was caught doodling on her desk with an erasable marker on Monday. Alexa Gonzalez wrote, “I love my friends Abby and Faith,” and even had the gall to add a menacing smiley face. The young lady was detained for several hours at a nearby police precinct and even though education officials now admit the entire case was handled terribly, she was suspended from her junior high school in Forest Hills. Gonzalez was also sentenced to community service by a family court. A principal at the school refused to comment, saying the matter was “still under investigation.” |NYDN|
by Bucky Turco on February 5, 2010 at 10:23 am
Editor-in-Chief:
Up next: how the four year old who took crayon to white wall was made to pay. "We've got to catch it young, before all this creativity nonsense takes hold," police said this morning. Still no word from either his parents, who called police, or his eight year old sister, who brought the crude drawing of her favorite cartoon unicorn to the parents' attention.
When the doodlers win, so do the terrorists.
I used to lie to my parents when I'd get led out of the school in handcuffs, too. Notice we only have her side of the story right now? Makes you think they're minimizing what she did, eh?
The vandal wrote about her "friends Abby and Faith". That's a gang. Perhaps the smiley face was a gang insignia. They should crack down on all these people. Who knows what other activities they could be involved in. Smoking in the girls' room? Name calling? Playing 'hooky'? She should definitely do jail time. For the sake of other prisoners' safety, and possibly even her own, she should do solitary. What I'd really like to see is that all school kids of that age do at least a few weeks of hard jail time. Kids are rotten.
^^ retard.
i am wondering how much it would have cost to clean up the mess that she made on the desk, maybe 2 cents? how much did it cost for the police to come out to the school, arrest her, book her, keep her at the police station including gas money it cost for the police car to come to the school, and take her to jail?
I would like to thank the school and the police department. It is called graffiti. On a desk, on a wall, on a building. It is still graffiti. Maybe she learned a lesson and maybe the other kids might take note. All that happened to her was that she was detained at the police department. Boo Hoo
I bet she won't do it again, but with the ambulance chaser lawyers out there they will try and sue for nothing.
Normally lawsuits happen when officials fail to follow procedures. Now they're being sued for following procedures too precisely? Perhaps they could have been more gentle with a middle school girl who committed a non violent offense. Perhaps they should have been. But if the only issue is that the authorities followed procedures too well, then this lawsuit is a joke. If the student was mis-treated then that would be a much different story. Maybe the procedures should be revised for the future in dealing with young teens like this. Till then, we shouldn't punish school officials and law enforcement officers for doing exactly what they're supposed to do.
Well, what do you expect? This happened in America. Nowhere else in the world would this ever have happened.
They pride themselves on being the GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD HURRDURR, but when you look at it, things like these are what goes on there on a daily basis.
Just insane. Typically American nonsense. Enjoy your "GREATEST COUNTRY", you losers.
I can't believe the police were called up over some silly graffiti… what next?
The kid who launches a spitball gets thrown into jail for 3-5 years?!
Over here in Australia the worst you'd cop for some graffiti is some harsh words or at most maybe detention for doodling on a desk. (1/2 the time the teacher would just tell you to stop… depending on how bad it was)
I mean comeon, all she did was doodle on a desk! This kind of stuff was taken way too out of proportion!
@Mason – Not alot might of happened while she was detained but for a 12 year-old (PRE-TEEN) girl to be detained for something so small is unacceptable! If the police were called in each time someone did some graffiti, interrupted the teacher, sniggered at an inappropriate comment or slept during class, we may as well cut out the middle man, fire the teachers and send police to do the job!
wow, this sounds like a made up story but NO…it's true. it's hard to believe there are that many retards in one place at the same time; teacher, principal, school "safety" officer (?), and at least three or four cops.
dear NYPD, next time you get a call like this, slap the dumbass principal on the back of the head and tell him you have crime to fight…you're not guidance counselors or babysitters.
dear principal, if this is the biggest problem you have in your school you should be thanking god for that. DOODLING?! that's your biggest problem? FYI, now everyone everywhere knows you are a DOPE!
i really hope someone loses a job for this silly BS.
and one more thing…
usually we like our principals to have some ability to think for themselves. since you have proven you have really bad judgement, you are reassigned to janitor.
I wouldnt even trust dat princepal as a janitor dude ^
*principal
You might want to spend a few minutes reading the following article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
Regards,
A concerned human being
You're a fucking moron….but I bet you'll do it again.