Not that big of a deal... But

[southern151]

Eman is dead on with this. If a kid grabbed it and saw a cop standing out there waiting to get to the bottom of the situation, yeah, he's gonna toss it.

As far as being excess or as Evis says, more of our liberties being taken away by dogs and drug testing, tell that to the parents of Columbine. Tell that to a parent whose kid died of heart failure or infection due to bad steroids because he was under pressure to be a superior athlete.

Growing up, I was under the impression that kids didn't have rights. When they got rights was shortly after parents quit doing their job as parents.

In short, don't blame schools or law enforcement for actions like this. Blame parents who have created environments where the possibility of theft is likely. If theft wasn't a real possibility, this would not have happened.