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Laura Timoney fumes after son Patrick, 9, is busted for bringing 2-inch-long toy gun to PS 52
Thursday, February 4th 2010
An irate Staten Island mom blasted a grade school principal Wednesday for treating her son like a pint-sized Plaxico Burress after he brought a 2-inch-long toy gun to school.
"This principal is a bully and a coward, and needs to be held accountable," said Laura Timoney, 44, after her teary fourth-grader was nearly suspended for playing with the tiny toy at lunch.
"The school should be embarrassed. This is a common-sense issue."
Patrick Timoney, 9, was terrified when he was yanked into the principal's office to discuss the teeny-weeny plastic "weapon."
"The gun was so little," the boy said. "I don't understand why the principal got so upset. I was a little nervous. They made me sign a statement."
Patrick and a friend were playing with Lego figures in the school cafeteria on Tuesday when he pulled out the faux machine gun and stuck it in the hands of his plastic police officer.
Boom! Trouble ensued, with Patrick's mom getting a phone call from Public School 52 Principal Evelyn Mastroianni saying her son had somehow gone from straight A's to the NRA.
"I was in disbelief," the still-fuming mother said. "Why didn't anyone step up with an ounce of common sense and put an end to the harassment of my child?"
Timoney said her boy loved the toy figure because her husband is a retired police officer.
The elder Patrick Timoney, a former 72nd Precinct cop, couldn't believe his son was nearly busted over something so obviously inauthentic.
"It's a 2-inch gun," he said. "She went overboard. She should have said, 'Put the toys away,' and that would have been the end of it."
After a meeting between the principal and the parents, the boy was spared any disciplinary action. City school officials said Patrick agreed to leave the "gun" at home.
"I'm never bringing a toy to school again," said Patrick, whose favorite subject is math.
Laura Timoney remained upset. Her son, a typically eager student, asked to stay home yesterday because he thought the principal was mad at him.
The mother said she expects an apology and may sue.
"The toy gun is not the issue," she said. "A lack of common sense is the issue."
Several parents at the school felt the principal overreacted, including Kim O'Rieley - whose son was playing with Patrick in the cafeteria.
Her boy's Lego man was toting a tiny ax, which the principal deemed less threatening.
"It's ridiculous," said O'Rieley, 36. "He felt so bad for his friend. They're taking things way too far ... No one is saying guns are okay.
"Come on, it's a Lego."
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2010/02/04/2010-02-04_big_trouble_over_this_tiny_toy_mom_fuming_at_a_lack_of_common_sense_as_son_buste.html
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boy's father is right
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I used to carry my two inch penis to school in my pants.Never got in trouble once.My how times have changed.
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I used to carry my two inch penis to school in my pants.Never got in trouble once.My how times have changed.
Liberalism at work.
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Oh,they want all the kids to look alike now as well as think alike,I saw something like that once in an old news reel,but I could'nt understand it because the narration was in GERMAN!!!!!!!! >:(
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So what, the Principal called the parents. Its not like he was arrested. This is news because??
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LOL, the boys mother said she may sue?
Sue for fucking what? Because her son was playing with toys in class and the parents were called?
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ROFLMAO!
You republicans are such toolbags and plain stupid for getting worked up over this.
"It's a 2-inch gun," he said. "She went overboard. She should have said, 'Put the toys away,' and that would have been the end of it."
After a meeting between the principal and the parents, the boy was spared any disciplinary action. City school officials said Patrick agreed to leave the "gun" at home.
"I'm never bringing a toy to school again," said Patrick, whose favorite subject is math.
Laura Timoney remained upset. Her son, a typically eager student, asked to stay home yesterday because he thought the principal was mad at him.
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as a former teacher...
TOYS don't belong in school. Leave that shit at home.
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no body should be able to sue over this, just take an apology and shut up, but everybody wants to play the poor victim role , and in todays politicaly correct society everyone is sue happy looking for that fast easy buck
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no body should be able to sue over this, just take an apology and shut up, but everybody wants to play the poor victim role , and in todays politicaly correct society everyone is sue happy looking for that fast easy buck
Tell that to the Republican babies who posted this thread and in it.
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republicans may post it yea ok but we all know who the political correct party and the enablers of the ability to sue over something like this are too so both left and right have some jacked up rolls in this
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republicans may post it yea ok but we all know who the political correct party and the enablers of the ability to sue over something like this are too so both left and right have some jacked up rolls in this
Moderates and Conservatives are the politically correct, socially awkward majority which is why none are even remotely humorous or posses the ability to detect irony or satire. They are Offended by EVERYTHING. From retards to gay men and women having gay sex to Straight men and Straight women having sex to Video Games to Hollywood to George Carlin. You name anything pleasurable and these fucksticks want it gone.
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Tell that to the Republican babies who posted this thread and in it.
Hey Adonis, I created this thread, and I ain't Republican.
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LOL, the boys mother said she may sue?
Sue for fucking what? Because her son was playing with toys in class and the parents were called?
as a former teacher...
TOYS don't belong in school. Leave that shit at home.
The other kid had a toy mini axe, but the principal did not have a problem with that toy weapon or any of the other toys. The principal picked on the kid with the mini toy gun and made a big deal out of it. Obviously, the principal is an anti-gun nut. The principal should have kept personal political views out of the school and should not force them down the kid's throat.
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Moderates and Conservatives are the politically correct, socially awkward majority which is why none are even remotely humorous or posses the ability to detect irony or satire. They are Offended by EVERYTHING. From retards to gay men and women having gay sex to Straight men and Straight women having sex to Video Games to Hollywood to George Carlin. You name anything pleasurable and these fucksticks want it gone.
Hysterical. Utterly clueless and hysterical at the same time.
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Moderates and Conservatives are the politically correct, socially awkward majority which is why none are even remotely humorous or posses the ability to detect irony or satire. They are Offended by EVERYTHING. From retards to gay men and women having gay sex to Straight men and Straight women having sex to Video Games to Hollywood to George Carlin. You name anything pleasurable and these fucksticks want it gone.
Wow,yeah your right.Thank God there are liberals who are so open minded and dont get offended at stuff.I mean they certainly werent bothered by Al Campannis,Jimmy the Geek,Don Imus,Trent Lott,Kramer from Seinfeld or Beck calling Obama a racist. etc etc.Yes sir,liberals dont get offended at anything like if Rush says "I want Obama to fail".They just let that shit roll right off their backs and dont make a big deal about it.Certainly they are not concerned about a college qurterback making a commercial about how his mother chose to have him instead of abort.They certainly dont make a big deal over a thing like the Michael Vick case.
Awesome point you make.I mean libs love free speech,which is why they want to shut down talk radio and FOX.
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libs are the biggest cry babies of them all just look at peta and epa , prime examples right there
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eh, there are whiny bytches on both sides of the aisles. I think the repub whining has skyrocketed since Nov 2, 2008... while the lib whining has been consistent for decades.