A rather bizarre incident in Racine, Wisconsin, resulted in a school principal sent to the hospital with multiple lacerations and an eight-year-old boy sent to jail. Seems she attempted to take a large wooden pole away from the young student who had brought it to school for protection, so he hauled off and struck her with it repeatedly about the head and shoulders. The pole broke into three pieces during the attack. Now, about that pole: It was 28″ long and 1.5″ in diameter. Isn’t that a stick? (The Journal Times)

Left, large wooden pole; right, stick