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Is chalk dangerous in USA, and why?
- Thread starter fireflame
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I guess they're trying to claim she was vandalizing the sidewalk? That's absolutely asinine. It's chalk.
Did you read the quote in the original tweet? The reasoning from the cop is right in that quote.
Yeah, since it gets you high if you snort it. (Source: the kid who got in trouble for snorting chalk in middle school)
According to the twitter thread, someone else brought cans labeled chalk and kids thought it was spray chalk (that's a thing?, damn I'm old) but it was really chalkboard paint which I guess is harder to remove?
Still a gross overreaction imo.
Still a gross overreaction imo.
A wall at city hall, actually. Building security said that the pair had been spraying the writing that's visible in the video.
It's almost like chalk doesn't wash away in the rain we just had.
Edit: ah - chalkboard paint. Didn't know that was a thing.
Edit: ah - chalkboard paint. Didn't know that was a thing.
Probably best not to get news from carefully edited twitter videos. They apparently spray painted the wall. Whether a 13 year old should be arrested for that is still a different story but yeah.
I agree it sounds a bit extreme, but depending on what they were doing with the chalk isn't it handled like all other graffiti/defamation of property laws?
This is the story I found on reddit linked from the same tweet.
This is the story I found on reddit linked from the same tweet.
Feel like op was purposely trying to get a rouse out of people by actions obtuse to why, whether right or wrong, this happened.
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It doesn't seem an appropriate reaction even knowing the context. I highly doubt they would use handcuffs in my country, under similar circumstances, to a kid.Fora 13 years old to be handcuffed kid would have to be violent and doing drugs I guess.... But now way would they handcuff a kid for that...
It's illegal here to spray paint walls unless you have permission or permit. This is pretty much standard procedure.
I've definitely seen kids use sidewalk chalk in the city with no reprocussions frequently, and I assume that's fine and legal. That isn't what was happening here.
Chalkboard paint is a spray paint used to make a surface into a chalk board like surface. So if that's what they had yeah very hard to remove.
It's odd they would even have that though. It's meant for like, spraying on drywall or other smooth surface that wouldn't otherwise take chalk.
If it's chalk or spray chalk then wow. Thank God they're not wasting taxpayer money arresting the open heroin dealers down the hill.
If it's chalkboard paint then it's permanent and expensive and difficult to remove. At that point I am not sure how they resolve.
If it's obviously an accident and they didn't realize it was chalkboard paint then call her parents to come pick her up and write a citation.
None of the possibilities seem to require taking a kid I n a paddywagon.
If it's chalkboard paint then it's permanent and expensive and difficult to remove. At that point I am not sure how they resolve.
If it's obviously an accident and they didn't realize it was chalkboard paint then call her parents to come pick her up and write a citation.
None of the possibilities seem to require taking a kid I n a paddywagon.
Oh yeah I've seen that before. For some reason I was thinking it was paint people put on chalkboards to be more permanent than chalk for things like teacher's rules or whatever.
This is not how you phrased the thread though. You came in with "why is chalk dangerous" and tried to frame it like it was a story it's not.
Did they over react? 100%. But frame the discussion around that and not how you did. And for the record just because you're a minor doesn't mean you won't get handcuffs.
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the way they act make it loooks like a more serious situation.... No cops in my country would react like this...This looks like dealing with a more dangerous situation...
Cops in the US routinely report to calls in pairs, or more
It has nothing to do with chalk
the paint used to create chalkboards
but a lot of "spray chalk" isn't really temporary either, especially on walls like this
chalk is bad to breathe in, so the cop did the right thing
honestly, why do people think its okay to manufacture chalk in this day and age? climate change is not going to be solved as long as we have chalk being manufactured and used and clapped out of erasers.
honestly, why do people think its okay to manufacture chalk in this day and age? climate change is not going to be solved as long as we have chalk being manufactured and used and clapped out of erasers.
I'm not one to defend police, but they didn't until people were surrounding and harassing them. Originally they just sat the pair down for a talk
Though I had a difficult time hearing and it sounded like they may have just been vindictive that the 13yo gave them lip but idk
