Although everyone makes good points regarding the story, this is 2007. Excepting for the original scuffle between the two, no one was hurt or hung. The story says alleged noose. I tend to agree with John61, Eboy, Winstrv, Remy and Wowzer. If there was a previous fight, then both should have been disciplined by the school, unless there was a ?bully factor? present. Kids, teens, students, young people and even old farts do pranks and do dumb stuff. We did it growing up and learned differently, hopefully, and so there should be no surprise over dumb pranks now. It seems ?hate crimes? and ?public bathroom stings? are the current law enforcement and news media thing. Last night on Boston Legal Denny Crane could not even go to a public courthouse bathroom to take a crap, hum and tap his feet to the beat without being arrested by the bathroom sting team for male prostitution.

As I have previously read on a post: ?I recently saw Senator Jim Webb on a talk show. He pointed out that the United States has some 2-3 million citizens in jail, about the highest ratio of incarcerated citizens in the world.? May I add what is wrong with our system? We Americans live by more laws (federal, state, local) and threats of fines, arrest and incarceration than the citizens of all Communist countries combined. Tell the prankster to not do that, give them a slap, and I don't want to see that behavior again. Get on with life . . . . .