14 DAY TRIAL // A Chinese student living in the US, has managed to get himself arrested. Nothing spectacular so far - most of you are probably thinking that this has something to do with guns or drugs. Not even close! The vigilant law enforcers nailed him for a gaming-related "felony", Counter-Strike to be more exact, as Joystiq reports.
The whole thing started when the high-school student, who still remains unnamed, put together a Counter-Strike map meant to re-create his school. After uploading it on a server, for him and his friends to play, it was only a matter of time until parents found out and complained to the "proper" authorities.
The educational facility in question is the Clements High School in Fort Bend, Texas, an institution that was not shy in removing the boy and placing him in the district's alternate education school (probably a place for the retarded children). As if that wasn't enough, the police came and arrested the fellow, considering him a "terroristic threat".
As a response, the boy's mother gathered the entire Chinese community and protested, finally managing to make the police drop any kind of charges. They considered the measures taken by the school and the police as too harsh, the sole reason for the harshness being the recent Virginia Tech shootings.
The final punishments for the Chinese boy who wanted a piece of reality in his favorite game, is the prohibition of participating in his graduation ceremony. Everybody can understand that people are a little bit sensitive when it comes to school and guns (no matter the context), but this is plain ridiculous.