TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: zombies

  • Prophetic Patrick

    Capt. Fantastic over at The Cellar found a plethora of information about Patrick Armstrong, the 14-year-old accused of killing Marlee Johnston.

    CF found a LiveJournal by an alleged friend of Patrick Armstrong. It seems like they were writing some kind of zombie story together. Sound familiar?

    Anyway, check out this entry that was allegedly written by Patrick Armstrong…

    This is also by Patrick.

    There would be no heroic moment for (name removed, see update below). She did not get a chance to fight the good fight against the zombies. For the zombie of Patrick had laid in wait in their pond, until the moment was just right, at which point he thrust out one hand, grabbed (name removed) by the ankle, and pulled her into the water. She died a soggy death, and was quickly forgotten.

    Kind of eerily prophetic considering Marlee Johnston’s body was found in a pond.

    CF also found that Patrick Armstrong’s LiveJournal used the screen name “saintmaggot”. The LJ has since been deleted but CF was able to find Armstrong’s interests through LJVIZ where some of his interests listed are Columbine, Satanism, serial killers, Anton Lavey, deviant behavior, and shotguns. And this is the kid that his defense attorney says is well-adjusted.

    If you want to see more of the “zombie story” you can go here, here, here, and here.

    Again a huge TOF to Capt. Fantastic.

    UPDATE: I had to remove the name of one of the characters in the zombie because it turns out it’s the name of an actual person. Thanks again to CF for the info. Both CF and I are now thinking could it have been possible that he was planning on killing this other person instead of Marlee?

  • Kentucky Zombie Unleashed

    Kentucky Zombie Unleashed

    Student charged in alleged plot has case dismissed:

    The Kentucky Zombie Kid himself, William Poole, had his case dismissed. Attorneys and judges both agreed that it would be impossible to prosecute Poole for criminal attempt to commit terroristic threatening. The judge even said she never saw the charge successfully prosecuted. However, Judge Brandy O. Brown had a message for Poole…

    “That doesn’t mean you need to walk out of here thinking you didn’t necessarily do anything wrong,” Brown told Poole in court.

    And this is foreboding…

    Brown asked Poole’s grandfather, Kenneth Craft, if Poole had given him any trouble before the school incident.

    “Trouble? William didn’t like to follow rules. He doesn’t like authority,” he said. “William is an angry young man.”

    And now he’s out.

  • Kentucky Zombie Dismissal

    Kentucky Zombie Dismissal

    Poole’s lawyer seeking charge dismissal:

    The lawyer of the Kentucky Zombie Kid, William Poole, is trying to get the charges dismissed…

    Brian Barker, a public defender from Richmond, alleges that a grand jury indictment charging Poole with criminal attempt to commit terroristic threatening fails to state a criminal offense. Poole initially was charged by police with second-degree terroristic threatening after he allegedly plotted to recruit a gang to take over an unnamed high school.

    Barker argues that an overt act must occur in order to be charged with criminal attempt. “Some sort of act or conduct is required to prove that a defendant is serious about carrying out his intentions,” Barker states in his motion. Barker claims that Poole was not indicted on any act or conduct, rather for an alleged statement he made.

    “Apart from the legal arguments, the notion of an ‘attempt to threaten’ is an absurdity,” Barker writes. “As a practical matter, how does a person attempt to make a threat? The mere concept is nonsense.”

    Barker, in a separate motion, asks District Court Judge Brandy O. Brown to dismiss the indictment due to the statute being unconstitutionally vague. Borrowing from pop culture, Barker quotes an excerpt from a Harry Potter book, suggesting that author J.K. Rowling could be charged with the same terroristic threatening count that Poole faces.

    “Just because she is a world-renowned writer does not dictate that she has greater creative liberties than a high school student who is writing fiction for enjoyment,” Barker writes in his motion.

    I’m not a lawyer, but doesn’t the fact that Poole tried to recruit people constitute an overt act?

  • Kentucky Zombie Plea

    Kentucky Zombie Plea

    High school student pleads not guilty to misdemeanor charge:

    William Poole, the Kentucky Zombie Kid, has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor charge of criminal attempt to commit terroristic threatening. If convicted, the maximum he could get is 12 months. Then what happens when that twelve months are over?

  • Revenge of the Kentucky Zombies

    Revenge of the Kentucky Zombies

    Jury hands down Poole indictment:

    Remember William Poole? The kid who was arrested for making threats against his school, but he said he was just writing a story about zombies for his class?

    Then it turned out there were no zombies in the story, and it was not an assignment by any of his teachers, and he tried to recruit other students.

    Well, the grand jury handed down an indictment, but only for the misdemeanor charge of attempt to commit terroristic threatening.

    The police had charged him with second-degree terroristic threatening, which is a felony.

    If convicted, the maximum he could get is 12 months.

  • Free The Zombies

    Free The Zombies

    The other day I was checking the usual news sites and I stumbled across this article on FoxNews.com. The article is titled “Is Writing About a School Shooting a Crime?” and goes on to detail the antics of one William Poole from Winchester, Kentucky.

    For those of you who may not remember who Mr. Poole is the high school student who was arrested for terroristic threats against his school. His defense was he was just writing an English assignment about zombies taking over his school.

    Of course, first amendment rights groups were horrified at the treatment Mr. Poole had been subjected to. How dare they arrest someone for just writing a story? Well, It turned out that it was not an English assignment and the story had nothing to do with zombies.

    And now, according to the article, there is a movement gaining ground to “Free William Poole”. Which is all well and good. I am a huge proponent of the First Amendment when it’s interpreted correctly. However, all these do-gooders are overlooking one item reported by law enforcement. Mr. Poole tried to recruit several of his fellow students.

    One first amendment group even posted Mr. Poole’s bond. What did they get for their troubles? The bond was forfeited because Mr. Poole violated the terms of his release by being on school grounds. I believe that trying to recruit other students trumps all free speech concerns. But hey, why let facts get in your way?

  • No Kentucky Zombies

    No Kentucky Zombies

    Details Of “Story” Written By Teen Charged With Terroristic Threatening Read In Court:

    This is a follow-up to the story about the kid in Kentucky who was arrested for writing a story about Zombies that take over the school, or so the legend goes. Turns out he was …*gasp*…lying. There were NO zombies in the story, and it was not for an English class assignment like originally claimed. And the clincher?

    Police say they’ve interviewed seven George Rogers Clark High School students who say Poole tried to recruit them into his group.

    While I take no delight in the fact that this kid more than likely was plotting against his school, I have two words for all the people who were whining about creativity in schools being quashed…

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  • Kentucky Zombies

    Kentucky Zombies

    Student Arrested For Terroristic Threatening Says Incident A Misunderstanding:

    I was actually going to pass on this story, but I got a request from new reader Alyric. And I am nothing without my readers. So on with the show…

    What happened is a high school kid in Kentucky was arrested for making terroristic threats against students, teachers, and police. He says that it’s all a big misunderstanding and that the writings that were found that the charges were based on were a work of fiction about zombies…

    “My story is based on fiction,” said Poole, who faces a second-degree felony terrorist threatening charge. “It’s a fake story. I made it up. I’ve been working on one of my short stories, (and) the short story they found was about zombies. Yes, it did say a high school. It was about a high school over ran by zombies.”

    On the surface, it seems like the local police may have over-reacted. But hold on one second there. The police state something different altogether…

    The arrest came after a tip from a family member that Pool was trying to “recruit a gang to take over the school,” Detective Berl Perdue said.

    “He didn’t have a gang, but he was attempting to organize one,” Perdue said.

    Police said writings in which Poole tried to persuade other students to take part in the takeover were found.

    Sarcasmo put it best…

    I should say – in all fairness – I have not read the story in question – and it may be that he has, in fact, written a story that is obviously about his attacking his classmates and teachers using a complex metaphor system a la Animal Farm – or by changing the name of “Mr. Smith, the English teacher” to “Mr. Smoth, the English teacher” – but that’s not the feeling I got from the news story.

    So without reading the actual writings, I cannot honestly give an opinion one way or the other on this. However, in too many instances where kids have been arrested in plotting to bomb or shoot their school, they claim it was just fantasy and that’s usually after the weapons and explosives have been found. I’d rather err on the side of caution than end up with a bloodbath.