Colorado police arrest two10 y/o boys for pointing Nerf guns

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In the boys’ imaginary game, they were shooting enemy tanks. Those tanks? Passing cars. The two boys had pointed their Nerf guns at passing cars and *imagined* shooting them.

Just to be clear, the boys weren’t even shooting Nerf darts at cars. They were *pointing* them at cars.

But a driver in one of the cars felt threatened by the boys. When he saw the boys and their toy guns, he immediately pulled over. “He slammed his breaks and started reversing as fast as he could,” Gavin said. “He came up and started getting very heated and was very mad. I was at the time, very scared.”

El Paso county sheriff’s deputies took the call and arrived at the Carpenter’s home.

They asked some questions, and then arrested both boys. Gavin explained, “They came back over, told me my rights, and told me what was going to happen. They put handcuffs on me, and I got into the car.”

The charge? Felony Menacing, a Class 5 felony.

Two ten-year-old boys charged with felonies for pointing inoperable Nerf guns at passing cars.

They assumed that the charges would be dropped once the judge or whoever was in charge of this sort of thing heard the details. But when they arrived at their court date, they heard otherwise. Gavin’s father, Chris said, “It was just a hard no, that the District Attorney wasn’t going to throw this out. That is when we moved into the diversion program

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