This link first popped up over the weekend, and persists through today on Drudge. Since it refuses to go away . . ..
The fact that it was a steak knife does make the situation moderately more serious perhaps, but we all know that the "zero common sense" policy in vogue throughout our society would have removed this desperate threat to our collective safety from the free population even if she had been using a butter knife or even - gasp! - a plastic knife! Heck, no doubt a crudely drawn picture of a knife would have been terrifying enough to have this child ". . . arrested and transported to the Juvenile Assessment Center" for evaluation.
A recent KFC ad features an office going into full panic mode because a woman is sitting at her desk, eating lunch, using a fork . . . and a KNIFE!!! The commercial would not be funny if not for the fact that the blind, unthinking refusal to apply reason and common sense to everyday situations pervades this country.
Friends, you are welcome to don the straitjacket and have yourselves interred in the padded cell, fed and emptied by carefully medically supervised tubes.
I, however, refuse to participate. Among many other things, life involves risk. Including the risk that you might have an original thought or encounter an unanticipated experience. I think I can handle that level of risk.
Anyone else willing to come along for the ride?
