Boy takes unloaded BB gun onto bus.Byline: Rebecca Nolan The Register-Guard A 10-year-old boy who brought his brother's unloaded BB gun onto a school bus Thursday to impress some friends caused a brief scare at Bertha ber·tha n. A wide deep collar, often of lace, that covers the shoulders of a dress. [French berthe, after Bertha (died 783), Carolingian queen as the wife of Pepin the Short.] Holt Elementary School elementary school: see school. in Eugene, school and police officials said. The boy carried the realistic-looking, handgun-shaped BB gun onto the bus Thursday morning in his backpack, Eugene School District Eugene School District (4J) is a public school district in the U.S. state of Oregon. It serves the city of Eugene Elementary schools
Other students on the bus overheard the boy talking about the BB gun with a friend, and several told an adult when they arrived at school at 770 Calvin Road. School officials called police, who searched the boy's backpack and found the unloaded BB gun inside. The boy did not have any BB pellets, Eugene police spokeswoman Kerry Delf said. Although he did show the BB gun to a friend, he did not brandish bran·dish tr.v. bran·dished, bran·dish·ing, bran·dish·es 1. To wave or flourish (a weapon, for example) menacingly. 2. To display ostentatiously. See Synonyms at flourish. n. it in a threatening way or wave it around, she said. Police spoke with the boy and his parents. Investigators believe the incident was a case of bad judgment on the boy's part, not a "school violence situation," Delf said. She said the timing was unfortunate, given Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech, where troubled student Cho Seung-Hui shot and killed 33 people, including himself. Holt Principal Kevin Boling sent a letter home to parents Thursday explaining the situation and praising the students who reported the incident to school employees. "After investigating, we don't believe that the item was brought with any intent to threaten or harm anyone, but to `impress' peers,' Boling wrote. He urged parents to make sure children don't have access to anything that could be considered a weapon. The school district has a "zero tolerance The policy of applying laws or penalties to even minor infringements of a code in order to reinforce its overall importance and enhance deterrence. Since the 1980s the phrase zero tolerance has signified a philosophy toward illegal conduct that favors strict imposition of " policy that dictates that any student found with a dangerous weapon be suspended pending an expulsion hearing. On Wednesday, a 15-year-old sophomore at Willamette High School Willamette High School is a school in Eugene, Oregon. Willamette, or "Wil-Hi," is located in the Bethel-Danebo area of west Eugene, and is the only high school in the Bethel School District. was arrested on multiple charges after he allegedly detonated a homemade explosive device inside a school trash can In the Macintosh, a simulated garbage can used for deleting files and folders. The trash can keeps the files intact in case the user wants to restore them, but can be "emptied" from time to time to save disk space. during a break in classes. Police said they believe that student had no plans to harm anyone, although the blast could have caused injury if someone had been standing nearby. |
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