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NEWS: Ohio Middle School Suspends Girl After Finding 'Death List' Based on Death Note

In one case, teachers who searched a teenage student's bag found a death list and a diary containing a "battle plan" showing areas of his school where bombs could be planted.

The Year 8 boy named classmates and four staff members in his "Death Note" and even specified how some of them would die - by drowning, heart attack and "drinking himself to death".

A Department of Education and Training report obtained by The Daily Telegraph under Freedom of Information reveals the student went to a government high school in Sydney's southwest.

Other students said that they have similar books, but do not bring them to school or have any names written on them.

^ My point is that there's no way of knowing whether that dumb kid was just playing around or actually planning on doing something awful.

The reason I brought up Australia was because that was an example where someone was actually going to kill fellow students and staff.

I also brought up "Manga Murder" because, as bad as Bronies and the Sonic fandom can be sometimes, at least they didn't inspire murder.

So why not ask the kid first rather than immediately assuming the worst and then charging them with a bogus crime?

Not being able to talk yourself out of any consequences for bringing a prop to a Fandom event (a what?) is something that would never happen to me.

I wish we lived in a better world, these are reasons why AssClass and Death Note TV Drama wont ever be shown on america tvs.

Agreed; prop or not, that's where the perpetrators cross the line on incidents like this.

Besides, if you're going to be truly authentic then put the names of characters from the series in it.

I would like to hope in the future that, perhaps 'Fandom Day' could omit certain students from dressing from characters from certain properties, such as those like Death Note or others where characters are provocatively dressed.

The school took the appropriate steps. She left something that could easily be misconstrued laying around, got in trouble for panicking people with it, and then went around and vented to people after being told not to discuss it with anyone. And now the school is going to educate people on what is and isn't appropriate, to avoid panic in the future.

Yet another harmless teenager who gets punished because of the overreaction from adults. The offence was "inducing panic", yet she never intended harm and didn't actually induce any panic except in people who are clearly paranoid to the point of stupidity.

According to that logic, teachers should panic with any material with Death, guns, or violence on it. Instead of rushing to a conclusion a little bit thinking goes a long way. We are humans not machines. We should not suppress creativity because people cannot independently think.