Brickbat: He Might Bring a Toy Knife, Too

New Haven, Connecticut, police have charged Angelo Appi, Jr. with breach of the peace for criticizing security at his daughter's school. Appi apparently doesn't believe that officials are taking his concerns seriously and posted on Facebook "Maybe I have to walk in with a toy gun just to prove a point." Police say the remark alarmed many parents.

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[nailzer]

Breach of the peace? When did peace revolve around Facebook?

[anon]

I got news Douchebags of CT: If you're alarmed about a toy gun, you've got issues.

[H. ReardEn]

Read the article. It's douche-bags all to way down. If this complaining douche-bag parent gets his way, he'll be mowed down by a hail of gunfire for his little stunt of possessing a toy gun.

[anon]

I don't disagree; most people in CT are douchebags.

[Fist of Etiquette]

This is the kind of thing that a school with parents on its ass about security would have to report to police. Dipshit.

[anon]

Sarcasm?

"Maybe I have to walk in with a toy gun just to prove a point."

[Fist of Etiquette]

Not at all. He's riding the school about security, so they're not going to give even the stupidest of non-threats a pass, either to show him they're serious about protecting his kid or to retaliate against him with his own style of overreaction. Either way, this move was inevitable.

[Doctor Whom]

Next time, he should walk into the school brandishing a copy of the First Amendment.

[PM]

Peddling filth to our children? The sex offender registry was made for sickos like that.

[Fist of Etiquette]

They wouldn't understand what they were looking out, anyway. It's written in cursive.

[Certified Public Asskicker]

Cursive, hieroglyphics, Chinese, should all be taught in schools!

[RBS]

Plus the invisible ink on the back.

[Snark Plissken]

OMG, is there an SMS version of the BoR?

[Live Free or Diet]

2A: rt2kpNbrrmz ntB Nfrngd

[Snark Plissken]

LOL

[Rich]

OMG Bmpr stkr

[Doctor Whom]

Maybe it should be exported to .JPG, with pictures of cats, and posted to Facebook.

[Doctor Whom]

It's written in cursive.

Oh, that's right. Also, it's confusing and was written 100 years ago in Anglo-Saxon.

[PM]

WTF IS A CONGREFF?!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Exactly.

[Steve G]

That would be a great "Gran Torino" moment. Get into a standoff w/ cops and quickly reach into your backpocket for... BAM! BAM! BAM! ...your copy of the constitution.

[Rich]

Principal Matthew Espinosa told police Appi's post prompted a flood of calls to his office from concerned parents.

Right. I'll bet phone records show two people were doing the "flooding".

*** disguises voice ***

OTOH, Appi was known to have been *shooting* videos.

[Eduard van Haalen]

He fmade, and I think posted, videos purporting to show lax school security. Hes part of the omg remember sandy hook crowd. Which is legal for him to be under the 1st amendment. It looks as if the so called threat was that hed do a third video making school security look bad. That seems to be his real crime.

[Snark Plissken]

"That was his real crime: he had tried to live the American way of life, instead of just talking about it."

[Entropy Void]

Effing pearl-clutching Yankees, they deserve each other.

[Live Free or Diet]

"Pearl-clutching." Had to look that one up. Love it!

[Zeb]

It's always a good time for a little regional bigotry.

[The Late P Brooks]

If this useless fucking bedwetter thinks school security is too lax, he should just lock his precious flower in a closet in the basement until she's old enough to buy her own health insurance.