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Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called

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A discussion among students at Oberlin High School in Oberlin, La., about a mathematical symbol led to a police investigation and a search of one of the student’s homes, according to the Allen Parish Sheriff’s Office.
On the afternoon of Feb. 20, detectives investigated a report of terroristic threats at the school, where they learned that a student had been completing a math problem that required drawing the square-root sign.
Students in the group began commenting that the symbol, which represents a number that when multiplied by itself equals another number, looked like a gun.

Alert..... This is not satire...... I repeat...... This is not satire.

I have just one question. How can people be so stupid? Now they have me worried that the government is going to seize my old math textbooks from the college I went to, and then only criminals will have textbooks on differential equations. LOL.

Square root a gun? Louisiana student investigated over math symbol comments | Miami Herald

Yes, I admit it. I am in possession of weapons of math instruction.
 
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Alert..... This is not satire...... I repeat...... This is not satire.

I have just one question. How can people be so stupid? Now they have me worried that the government is going to seize my old math textbooks
They're everywhere! Yesterday, a Seattle woman found herself distressed over a neighbor flying the Confederate battle flag -- which turned out to be the Norweigian flag.

Norwegian Flag Mistaken for Confederate Flag in Seattle | Time

I think people are just on edge, and not thinking.
 
Alert..... This is not satire...... I repeat...... This is not satire.

I have just one question. How can people be so stupid? Now they have me worried that the government is going to seize my old math textbooks from the college I went to, and then only criminals will have textbooks on differential equations. LOL.

Square root a gun? Louisiana student investigated over math symbol comments | Miami Herald

Yes, I admit it. I am in possession of weapons of math instruction.

There are no words for the ridiculous times we live in, I feel like an old relic from a long forgotten time and I’m only in my mid 30s
 
Another instance of a headline that baits in the fools when the actual story is completely different. Morons can't really tell what is fake news.
 
Alert..... This is not satire...... I repeat...... This is not satire.

I have just one question. How can people be so stupid? Now they have me worried that the government is going to seize my old math textbooks from the college I went to, and then only criminals will have textbooks on differential equations. LOL.

Square root a gun? Louisiana student investigated over math symbol comments | Miami Herald

Yes, I admit it. I am in possession of weapons of math instruction.
What should convern everyone is that tjis alarmed them but the stuff Cruz was doing did not

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Alert..... This is not satire...... I repeat...... This is not satire.

I have just one question. How can people be so stupid? Now they have me worried that the government is going to seize my old math textbooks from the college I went to, and then only criminals will have textbooks on differential equations. LOL.

Square root a gun? Louisiana student investigated over math symbol comments | Miami Herald

Yes, I admit it. I am in possession of weapons of math instruction.

Welcome to the land of the paranoid liberal left.
 
Another instance of a headline that baits in the fools when the actual story is completely different. Morons can't really tell what is fake news.

Really? Then why don't you tell us what is fake about the article.
 
Alert..... This is not satire...... I repeat...... This is not satire.

I have just one question. How can people be so stupid? Now they have me worried that the government is going to seize my old math textbooks from the college I went to, and then only criminals will have textbooks on differential equations. LOL.

Square root a gun? Louisiana student investigated over math symbol comments | Miami Herald

Yes, I admit it. I am in possession of weapons of math instruction.

Looks like the liberal goal of turning our populous into pathetic fearful people cowering for full dependence on the government to protect them is being achieved.
 
Alert..... This is not satire...... I repeat...... This is not satire.

I have just one question. How can people be so stupid? Now they have me worried that the government is going to seize my old math textbooks from the college I went to, and then only criminals will have textbooks on differential equations. LOL.

Square root a gun? Louisiana student investigated over math symbol comments | Miami Herald

Yes, I admit it. I am in possession of weapons of math instruction.



I'm leaning towards concluding that the student who reported this was trolling the other one. At least, I hope so.
 
I'm leaning towards concluding that the student who reported this was trolling the other one. At least, I hope so.

'Ya think the police could have figured this one out before searching the kid's home? LOL.
 
Alert..... This is not satire...... I repeat...... This is not satire.

I have just one question. How can people be so stupid? Now they have me worried that the government is going to seize my old math textbooks from the college I went to, and then only criminals will have textbooks on differential equations. LOL.

Square root a gun? Louisiana student investigated over math symbol comments | Miami Herald

Yes, I admit it. I am in possession of weapons of math instruction.

This solution here is obvious. We need to ban all square numbers, square roots of number, and anything that may lead to the use of this symbol.
 
Looks like the liberal goal of turning our populous into pathetic fearful people cowering for full dependence on the government to protect them is being achieved.

Don't know about the cowering part but the dumbing-down, play-to-the-lowest-common-denominator program looks successful. Lemme know when you feel the need to cower.
 
'Ya think the police could have figured this one out before searching the kid's home? LOL.

Sometimes, I'm not so sure....
 
NEW YORK — Shortly after midnight today, a man was arrested while trying to board an international flight at JFK airport in New York City while in possession of a ruler, protractor, setsquare, slide rule, log tables, and a calculator. The 37-year-old man, whom officials declined to identify pending further investigation by the homeland security team, was revealed to be a math teacher in the New York City public school system.

At a press conference this morning, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He is being charged with transporting weapons of math instruction.

“Al-Gebra is a fearsome cult,” Sessions said. “They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values. They use secret code names like ‘x’ and ‘y’ and refer to themselves as ‘unknowns,’ but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval, with co-ordinates in every country. They test the limits. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say: ‘There are three sides to every triangle’.”

When asked to comment on the arrest, President Trump said, “If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes.”
 
honestly, Americans are pretty much dumber than cow **** ...........
 
Don't know about the cowering part but the dumbing-down, play-to-the-lowest-common-denominator program looks successful. Lemme know when you feel the need to cower.

It's most definitely working. Liberals almost literally piddle themselves at the mere thought of a gun.
 
Alert..... This is not satire...... I repeat...... This is not satire.

I have just one question. How can people be so stupid? Now they have me worried that the government is going to seize my old math textbooks from the college I went to, and then only criminals will have textbooks on differential equations. LOL.

Square root a gun? Louisiana student investigated over math symbol comments | Miami Herald

Yes, I admit it. I am in possession of weapons of math instruction.

Ah.... The root of all evil! A wise precaution!;)

Cheers.
Evilroddy.
 
Really? Then why don't you tell us what is fake about the article.

It's obvious you either didn't read the article or didn't understand it. You also didn't understand what I wrote. Learn to read.

The headline accurately describes the story

Quote the part of the article in which they say the police were called because of a square root symbol.
 
It's obvious you either didn't read the article or didn't understand it. You also didn't understand what I wrote. Learn to read.



Quote the part of the article in which they say the police were called because of a square root symbol.

On the afternoon of Feb. 20, detectives investigated a report of terroristic threats at the school, where they learned that a student had been completing a math problem that required drawing the square-root sign.

there ya go
 
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