Today in WTF: 10 Year Arrested For Defending Self... With Pea Shooter

Posted by Brian Fairbanks

 

The NYPD didn't kill anyone this time, but they did harm a ten-year-old boy and are about to be sued for millions in taypayer dollars.

Anor Frank, a schoolkid from Staten Island, had been terrorized on the school bus by older, bigger kids, including a girl who stomped his chest. Rather than shoot, stab, or take some other nasty revenge, he decided to get them back in what he thought would be a mild manner...

On Wednesday, Anor was minding his own business on the bus when one his regular bullies began to bug him.

"I said, 'OK, leave me alone,' and he was still bothering me like pushing me around, and I just shot him. I didn't mean to shoot him. I was trying to get him to leave me alone," Annor said. [CBS]

But Anor didn't fire a handgun at the boy. He had rigged his homemade pea shooter to fire harmless objects, and he pulled the toy out and fired it at the bully. Of the many news outlets that have covered this story so far, not one of them has mentioned that the bully received medical treatment or was in any way harmed by the shot. Nonetheless, the "victim's" family agreed that Anor should be arrested.

Meanwhile, the ten-year-old was handcuffed and arrested, taken to the station, and connected to a chair. When Uncle Emmanuel arrived, he found the boy crying from the pain and a disinterested officer filling out paperwork. After being charged with assault and reckless endangerment, Anor was taken to the emergency room because of the brutal handcuffing and now the family will likely sue the city of New York for millions.

Here's the full video which may give you a better idea as to the inanity of Anor's arrest:

Via CBS and other sources.

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Comments

Denz said:

Way to go Anor! The bullies should be the ones arrested.

July 28, 2008 1:01 PM

blondage said:

that poor kid....

July 28, 2008 3:19 PM

fitandfun71 said:

OMG!  Are spitballs next?

July 29, 2008 12:59 AM

Cowboymike said:

Holy $h!T, is this where we are. When I was a kid and someone picked on you, you had your older sibling kick their a$$! I suppose now that would be attempted murder, and maybe even premeditated :) This is Fing ridiculous, good luck kid, I hope you win like a big dog.

Goodbye common sense.

July 29, 2008 4:00 PM

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Brian Fairbanks, the Senior National Political Correspondent for Nerve, is a filmmaker living in Brooklyn or New Orleans, depending on the season. He is a heavily-armed advocate of gun control.

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