Read this:

A standout North Carolina high school student has been suspended for the remainder of her senior year and charged with a misdemeanor for having a small paring knife in her lunchbox.
Ashley Smithwick, 17, of Sanford told WRAL she accidentally took her father's lunchbox to Southern Lee High School in October instead of her own when school officials searched the lunchbox, along with several other students' possessions, possibly looking for drugs.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/29...#ixzz19Yyg6s5q


In addition if you walk into a store to buy alcohol you are carded regardless of you age ie 12 to 80 doesn't matter.

The really sad part of this is that there are so many areas like this in which citizens who work and live are being treated like total dummies. What is sadder is that the people are accepting this. We should be throwing lawmakers out of office and repealing these stupid laws. This country is sooooo ripe for a revolution.