More zero tolerance idiocy in California.

The 13-year-old boy was cited into Tulare County's Thunderbolt Program for juvenile offenders after police were notified Wednesday afternoon that he had the small knife on campus.

According to Porterville Police Sgt. Dan Haynes, police responded to Burton Middle School, located in the 1100 block of North Elderwood Street, after being alerted of the incident.

The boy "had a small Swiss Army knife that he was showing off to his friends," Haynes said. "The knife was never opened, there were no injuries, no threats; it was kind of just a show-and-tell" situation.

"He was not arrested, but cited into the Thunderbolt Program for a statute that states it is illegal to have a knife on a school campus, regardless of the circumstance."

My how times have changed. We used to carry small pocket knives to school all the time. When I was in the boy scouts, they even went so far as to teach us how to use them properly. Oddly enough, nobody was ever stabbed. On the other hand, I still have a scar on my hand from where Dana Cameron stabbed me with a pencil in the 3rd grade. Maybe they should ban those.