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April 20, 2007
A steak knife would have sufficed
As far as bringing weapons to school, I think this was a little over the top:
The freshman girl told police she was "tired of getting picked on," so she took a mace to school.
Not Mace, the pepper spray.
Mace, as in a medieval weapon.
A long wooden stick attached to a metal chain with a spiked ball on the end.
The 15-year-old swung it at a teacher Thursday morning but struck a fellow student who intervened, Gary Police said. The victim, a 19-year-old Lew Wallace High School senior, suffered cuts on her hand and thumb protecting the teacher. School security detained the freshman and confiscated the weapon.
"It's heavy, and it's metal, and it's sharp," Detective Sgt. Darlene Breitenstein said after delivering the girl to the Lake County (Ind.) Juvenile Justice Center, where she is being held on battery charges.
A mace, wow. The problem with the mace, I hear, is that in order to pack a nice punch with it, you need to swing it around a few times to build up some momentum. If you're going to pop somebody with a mace, they're going to know it's coming. On the other hand, if you use a nice knife, or maybe a tomahawk, claymore or pike, you can surprise your victim. As far as medieval weapons, however, my favorite is still probably the poleaxe - which you probably can't sneak into school.
entry no. 827
Posted by oz115 at April 20, 2007 11:22 AM