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Kid brings gun to school ... to trade for a PSP

by David Hinkle on Apr 17th 2009 5:00PM

At Mason Middle School in Tacoma, WA, a 13-year-old boy stole one of the guns from his father's collection and brought it in with the intent of trading it for a PSP, kirotv reports. Whatever happened to kids trading pogs?

The student who brought in the gun has been placed in juvenile detention, however a second gun is still missing from the father's collection. It was believed to also be in the school, but the report doesn't confirm if the police have discovered the missing firearm.

[Thanks, Dan D!]

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Tags: gun, school, washington

Reader Comments (58)

And I thought I was a badass little kid from when I traded my holographic Kangaskhan for a Playboy. Now I look weaksauce.

I must say, you won that trade.

Weaksauce with major nerd and boner cred.

Suck! No more guns for your family.

Why didn't he just use the Gun to force the other kid to give him a PSP?

His balls haven't dropped yet. Give him time.

His karma would have went down.

And he deleted his previous save file.

These kids dont think these things through, he could have had BOTH.

Why in the world is the fathers gun collection accessible to a 13 year old child?

Rednecks can't afford locks?

But they can afford gun collections? Someone in that family is going to win a Darwin award...

I grew up in a family of hunters/outdoorsmen and the guns in the house were pretty much available to us all once we were old enough to have been trained to respect them and use them properly (from about 10 to 12 years old).

I'm not saying that's the case here, just pointing out that kids and guns are not necessarily mutually exclusive in all families. I think the biggest problems with kids and guns happen when parents haven't taken the time to teach their children proper use, safety, care and respect of the weapons.

There is still a period of time when the children are not going to appreciate/understand gun safety, and you need said instruments locked away until then.

To assume they make it to 10-12 without playing with one of them and hurting themselves is pretty irresponsible.

argh.

I had pogs!

I am not that old, dammit.

I remember trading Pokemon Pogs, good times.

I still have some of my old specialty hammers. A constant reminder of how old I truly am.

I think they're mocking me :(

I'm assuming the kid trading his PSP for the gun wanted it to shoot whoever bought him the PSP.

You find that funny?

Maybe he was going to trade the other gun for a copy of GTA Chinatown Wars but couldn't find anyone who'd actually bought a copy.

HIYO!

Why in the world would he think this was a good idea?
That must have been one hell of a PSP.

Oh how I miss pogs. I think I still have some in my parents basement somewhere...

You mean "my bedroom"?

ZING!

ahhh texas

woa was that ever on the wrong site

disregard

aaahahahhaah man good laugh

Something priceless and comical about TX? Please share.

I really misread your self-reply. I kept seeing it as "HAHAHAHA DISREGARD THAT I SUCK COCKS!"

Ah the internet... what would we ever do without you?

someone was getting the short end of the stiq here. would have been funnier if the kid traded the gun got the PSP then got robbed by that gun for the PSP.

THAT would be classic.

Now that made me laugh, thanks.

At least now we know he's only gonna be shooting virtual people.

Ahhh, the stupidity of children. It's a wonderful thing.

horrible trade, I traded my GBA for an AK-47, 2 packs of smokes, and a hamster

Gamestop has some REALLY good incentives sometimes!!

haha your avatar is epic win

I only seem to care about the pic used for this post.

WHO RUN BARTER TOWN?

Was wondering what the hell it was from...

The only thing that picture needs to go with it is the end-of-level Doom music.

What about the kid who was trying to receive the gun? That doesn't send out any Red Flags to anyone?

lolololol

Video games: they make our kids put down guns to play!

That's the message we should be taking home from this.

Arg, beat me to it :D

Sounds like this kid got a better trade-in deal than anything GameStop would've offered.

Magic cards, joystiq, magic cards.

he only got juvie detention? here, that's at the very least expulsion.

aren't they the same thing? i dont think they mean like after school detention in school, they mean shipped off to a juvenille detention center outside of the school. all the kids i knew that went to juvie back in grade school never came back after that.

ohh they meant juvie, not school detention. thanks for the clarification. what happened to the kid that was getting the gun though?

They meant The Raymond Hall Juvinille Detention center, I think.

somebody probably got the other gun in an earlier trade. does he have any other new toys? horrible trade.

man, I was just talking about pogs with a coworker yesterday.

ha! I'll watch for this on the news tonight! (I live in Seattle Are) :P damn kids

hmmm. maybe that kid would be better of if he would of traded a pic of his mom bOObs. im sure his mom got a few on their computer.. lol.. now that be the trade of the month.. pic of your mom for a PsP...

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