William Poole, an 18-year-old junior at George Rogers Clark High School in Winchester, Kentucky has been arrested and charged with a felony of making terrorist threats.

The "terrorist threats" charge apparently stems from a short story Poole wrote for his English class, which he describes as "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."

(That's "overrun," William, but we'll let that one slide for now.)

Police insist that the nature of the fictional zombie-attack story still makes it a felony. Winchester Police detective Steven Caudill said, "Anytime you make any threat or possess matter involving a school or function it's a felony in the state of Kentucky."

It sounds like they take threats of zombie attacks very seriously in Kentucky. Our research into documentation of zombie attacks, however, indicates relatively few instances of zombie attacks, real or imagined, in that state.

Poole's bond has been set at $5,000 due to the "seriousness" of the charge of felony threatening of zombie attack.

This thoughtcrime case reminds us of earlier cases including an Atlanta student expelled from school over a fiction in her diary and a Canadian student charged over a fictional story who later had the charges against him dropped.

---Nick

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