Comments on: High School Student Arrested for Writing Zombie Story

By: Nate Higley

Nate Higley — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:27:25 +0000

I didn’t even notice it was gone. I might of “spammed” it by accident. Let’s see if Erik can dig it up and re-instate it…

By: Erin

Erin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:21:18 +0000

Just for the record – I didn’t even see his reponse!

Did he delete on his own, Nate? Maybe he realized that he may have overreacted a bit…

By: Nate Higley

Nate Higley — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:15:35 +0000

Mr. Enlightenment isn’t even worth discussing…the only thing he did was name-call us for running an old story and then also accuse us of “stealing” said story, that a hundred other sites also ran that day. Obviously a fan of ours…

By: The Pork-Eater

The Pork-Eater — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:36:13 +0000

(I’m not entirely convinced that mr Enlightenment is allowed to post here anymore…)

By: Jef Porkins

Jef Porkins — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:43:06 +0000

Yeah, I was searching for any kind of follow up to this case, being that it’s a few years old and the only thing I could find was, besides other sites that had posted it this week and other sites that were undated at all, was somebody blogging about how they had been following it. The only new news they had written was that the kid lied about it being a zombie story, and that little tidbit was hard to find and impossible to confirm. Evidently the local newspaper that was sited as reporting on this story on every site I went to came up with an Error 404 rather than an article.

Anybody got any leads as to how this whole story played out? Maybe Mr. Enlightenment could enlighten us all.

By: Revenant

Revenant — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:01:10 +0000

Wow, someone actually wrote a defamatory letter calling you guys idiots for posting this article? Regardless of whether or not it’s a couple years old, I got this story on numerous blog rolls and newsblasts the other day so…it fooled a lot of people.

Why are zombie fans coming unglued? It’s frickin October!

~RM~

By: Nate Higley

Nate Higley — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:26:24 +0000

Pork-Eater: It was somebody that was quite adamant about calling us idiots and typing in all capitals to get their point across and show their anger.

By: The Pork-Eater

The Pork-Eater — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:38:42 +0000

Who’s “Enlightenment”?

So this story turned out not only to be old but also bogus. There were no zombies in this guys journal.

By: Bambi

Bambi — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:20:21 +0000

Since I mainly write in the horror genre, this could have easily of happened to me in Highschool. When I think back on the kinds of stories I turned in…luckily, none had a plot line that was based a school, but yikes.

By: Nate Higley

Nate Higley — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:44:39 +0000

Hey "Enlightenment"- Boing Boing ran this story today as brand new. Boing Boing has now been updated that the story is old also. So, Boing Boing must be idiots too! Sometimes mistakes happen. If this enrages you, do us a favor and stop reading our site. We love our readers, but loathe righteous pricks like you.