Student Arrested for Posting Video Game Clip Killing Zombies at His School on Facebook

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The Walking Dead: Our World is an augmented reality game allowing players to “fight walkers in the real world” by animating zombies into their current setting. Sean Small, an 18-year-old senior, found himself arrested after playing the game in his Indiana high school: a concerned classmate alerted school officials after seeing a clip he had uploaded to his Facebook account, which allegedly showed his character shooting zombies inside Scottsburg HS.

Along with Sean’s video he wrote, “Finally something better than Pokemon Go,” which is also an augmented reality game. You can play both games on a smartphone. Both AR games encourage players to explore their neighborhoods in real life and can utilize the phone’s camera to blend reality and the game. Another student at the school was concerned over the clip, which allegedly showed Sean’s characters shooting zombies inside the school, and notified the school’s principal.
 
bsbllclown said:
I miss the days when we crap like this was self policed.....you could take that idiot kid (the one who reported this nonsense) outside school grounds and beat the crap out of them.
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Yeah, vigilante justice always works out better in the end. Mob rule!
/sarc, just in case
 
steakman1971 said:
My kid's school went on lockdown last week over a pair of safety scissors. Also on the list of things not allowed at school - pencil sharpeners. There is a blade inside. I guess they can only use the ones in the classroom mounted to the wall.
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What about the pencils? If you go full John Wick a pencil is good for at least three kills.
 
So glad I am not a kid today. A mate and I in highschool made a Q3A map of our school which we thought was pretty fun to play, and never did the thought cross our mind that ''hey, we're simulating a school shooting", too busy rocket jumping onto the chapel roof and rail gunning Anarki into meaty chunks. In today's environment, we'd have been arrested. But hey, let's encourage creativity...but only creativity we approve of.
 
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Dumbass is there to learn not play video games. Let THAT be the lesson of the day.
 
If he/his parents take this to court and win, what I would love to see is an offer to return the school district money lost due to the case back. If and only if, the "concerned student", the officers who falsely arrested him, and the school board take a course in criminal law and Constitution 101. Then once complete, make a formal public apology to Sean and his family. Plus a speech admitting their wrongdoing and, based on what they learned (hopefully) in the two courses, where they went wrong. If they do all that, then the school gets back what was lost in the lawsuit. So what will show? Pride and arrogance or humility.

Krenum said:
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Dumbass is there to learn not play video games. Let THAT be the lesson of the day.
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When did it become a good thing to be unlawfully arrested for doing something unwise but legal. With that philosophy, I bet over half our nation would be in prison.

Also, all this panicking and hysteria over schools and violence could lead to a parallel of McCarthyism. Minors playing violent video games is the next 1950's alleged communist
M76 said:
"Concerned classmate" ? I'll eat my hat if this not a bad case of the swatting.
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Is there someone you don't like? Do they play violent video games? Want to see them arrested and expelled? Freak out into an emotional wreck and report him to the school board.
Minors playing violent video games is the next 1950's alleged communist
 
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Megalith said:
The Walking Dead: Our World is an augmented reality game allowing players to “fight walkers in the real world” by animating zombies into their current setting. Sean Small, an 18-year-old senior, found himself arrested after playing the game in his Indiana high school: a concerned classmate alerted school officials after seeing a clip he had uploaded to his Facebook account, which allegedly showed his character shooting zombies inside Scottsburg HS.

Along with Sean’s video he wrote, “Finally something better than Pokemon Go,” which is also an augmented reality game. You can play both games on a smartphone. Both AR games encourage players to explore their neighborhoods in real life and can utilize the phone’s camera to blend reality and the game. Another student at the school was concerned over the clip, which allegedly showed Sean’s characters shooting zombies inside the school, and notified the school’s principal.
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nice to know that the concerned snow flakes care.... back in the day we had a doom level that was made to look like our work area.. everyone knew about it and played the map...
 
ebduncan said:
Yup ifs official. Never thought I'd say the 80's and 90's were the good old days, but here we are.

I wonder if you put open jars of peanut butter by all the school doors, if they would consider it a terrorist attack.
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And put a spoon in each jar lol
 
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