Jeez... Talk About Overreaction

From the Oregonian:

The two boys tore down the hall of Patton Middle School after lunch, swatting the bottoms of girls as they ran--what some kids later said was a common form of greeting.

But bottom-slapping is against policy in McMinnville Public Schools. So a teacher's aide sent the gawky seventh-graders to the office, where the vice principal and a police officer stationed at the school soon interrogated them.

After hours of interviews with students the day of the February incident, the officer read the boys their Miranda rights and hauled them off in handcuffs to juvenile jail, where they spent the next five days.

Now, Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison, both 13, face the prospect of 10 years in juvenile detention and a lifetime on the sex offender registry.

Wow.  I am glad I am not at Loch Raven Middle School anymore.  I had a huge crush on Jennifer Myers in seventh grade.  Her locker was right above mine.  I used to goose her and snap her bra strap all the time (she was pretty well endowed for a seventh grade girl).  One day, she surprised me by goosing me.  Her favorite song was "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler.  She was the first girl I ever "couples skated" with at Skateland (you remember-- the Skateland in Towson right off Joppa Road, right behind the old Orchard Swim Club).

Good thing John Darnaby never caught me.