but please tell your trolls to stop using emoticons. I’m frightened of them, especially the one used above, which depicts the face of a guy nursing a gas bubble.

Thank you, and keep watching “Cops”, the best show EVER!

The next week while in the same class she put her purse under her desk with the new phone buried deep within it, figuring if someone had to dig for it, with everyone in the classroom, they woudln’t want to take the time to do so and risk getting caught. (Before you ask, she didn’t have a locker in H.S. after her freshman year. #1 we had to pay for it and #2 with only four minutes between classes, going to it and making it to the next class on time was impossible.) Yep, you guessed it. Same bat-time, same bat-channel. The kid did it AGAIN. This time someone HAD to see him because of the logistics of where the purse sat and where the phone was in the purse. Once again classroom searched, questions asked, not one word said.

How’d he finally get arrested? The dumb girl he gave the phone to left the super bright hot pink case on it which I had bought for my daughter. Said dumb girl pulled it out in a class she had with my daughter’s friend. The friend faked interest in the “new style of phone” and checked it and sure enough all the files she had sent my daughter were still on it. Friend calls me, I call school SRO, he pulls “criminal genius” out of class. She confesses to where she got the phone. SRO returned the phone to my daughter that evening and lo and behold there were not only pictures of the girl and her friend on the phone, but there were also text messages she exchanged with her friends where they were laughing about the fact this was the SECOND phone the punk kid had stolen from my daughter. They also listed several electronic items that “they” (apparently a ring of h.s. kids) had “ready for the next shipment”. The thief/punk was arrested, expelled from school and ultimately pled out the case. His sentence? Community service, probation, and he had to pay us the $150 deductible we had to pay to get a new phone. Apparently the two nights immediately after his arrest (which occured three days before Chrismas) where he was housed with Gwinnett’s less-than-finest residents while dressed in a less-than-fashionalbe orange jump suit was quite the “schooling” for this young man. He did all the things he was sentenced to do and is now in college. The two dumb girls? Suspended from that high school for the rest of the year and had to make alternative schooling arrangements. They were never arrested because “there wasn’t enough proof.” If pictures and text messages RIGHT ON THE STOLEN PHONE aren’t enough, then I don’t know what is!