Zombie Terrorism

[ellyssian]

For those that have heard about the zombie terrorist kid, make sure you check out this more thorough reporting of events, discovered by dreadpiratetait, before you get up in arms (or braaaaaiiiiinnnnnsss) about making horror fiction a felony crime.

Addendum: What's great about this is seeing how fast it moved before anyone did any further research - I checked when I first found the story - by way of juanfandango's typist - and did a quick Google on it.

The number of links in the last hour or so has more than doubled, and I still can't locate the one Jenny found. In fact, I can't locate anything that isn't going on and on about how silly - or Orwellianly Evil - it is that William Poole was arrested for writing fiction.

I did see a few in the early search that echoed my sentiment of "Wait and see if Snopes debunks it," but those seem to have been flooded out by the outraged and/or amused throng.

It will be interesting to see what kind of equilibrium is reached, and how many will call the ending result a coverup or conspiracy.

Modern media in(space optional)action - a perpetually spinning wheel!

Addendum Redux: more info

Comments

[opakele.livejournal.com]

Interesting about the Zombie Kid. Its hard telling what is true. I just hope they don't loose focus. The kid is what is important here, somehow, someway. It sounds to me it would be time well invested, spending a little time getting to know him. Wonder if he's been invisible all his life?

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

From what's hinted at (in his history prior to 18 - which is kept off the record), he may have had a history of making threats.

Just added another link to a KY paper with more information on the nature of the charges. Still vague, though it sounds like it's hardly the zombie story he passed off to the TV station.