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November 13, 1999

Karen Hucks; The News Tribune

North Thurston High School sophomore MeShelle Locke said she was joking -
smiling, laughing and even flirting a little bit – with a boy in her English
class when she raised her finger and thumb at him in the shape of a gun and
said “bang.”

When he asked her if it was a threat, she said she quoted a line from the
1992 movie “The Buttercream Gang”: “No, it’s a promise.”

This week, school officials suspended her for four days.