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March 14, 2005

Update to earlier post

March 2nd, I posted commentary on the arrest of a student in Kentucky for writing a zombie-based horror story. It turns out, however, that the student, William Poole, was apparently lying about the content of his story and that there may well have been just cause for concern after all. As part of the evidence presented yesterday in the country court, it was revealed that:

...Poole's teachers told police they had not assigned such a story or talked to him about it -- and had they seen it, they would have been obligated to report him to authorities.

And, as it turns out, Poole's writings include no brain-eating dead folks.

What they do contain, Winchester police Detective Steven Caudill testified yesterday, is evidence that he had tried to solicit seven fellow students to join him in a military organization called No Limited Soldiers.

The writings describe a bloody shootout in "Zone 2," the designation given to Clark County.

"All the soldiers of Zone 2 started shooting," Caudill read on the witness stand. "They're dropping every one of them. After five minutes, all the people are lying on the ground dead."

The papers contain two different dates of Poole's death.

Poole has corresponded with someone in Barbourville who claimed to have acquired cash and guns in break-ins, Caudill testified.

No other arrests are pending, he said, but authorities are looking for other potential suspects listed in Poole's papers who are identified only by pseudonyms.

While I still stand by the general sentiments expressed in my earlier post - regarding schools, creativity and how over-reacting to creative expression by students can cause even more problems - obviously, in light of this new information, it no longer is applicable to this particular situation.

Posted by thorswitch at March 14, 2005 12:05 PM

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