From the great world of zero-tolerance:

Six girls at a rural high school were charged with homicide conspiracy after their principal found a list of 300 names and officials discovered online postings suggesting they kill people, authorities said Thursday.

School officials said the list, discovered in a classroom trash can, mostly named students and faculty members but also included Tom Cruise, Oprah Winfrey and the Energizer bunny.

Sequatchie County High School Principal Tommy Layne said that he initially considered it a joke, but that authorities then found the ninth-graders’ online MySpace pages and postings that included the word “kill.”

There was no evidence that the girls had weapons or that an attack had been imminent, Huth said.

The girls, ages 14 and 15, were charged with conspiracy to commit criminal homicide late Wednesday and taken to a juvenile facility.

James Taranto sums up the situation:

So let’s see if we have this straight: There was no evidence that the defendants had weapons or that an attack was imminent, and the list of “targets” included a battery-powered bunny. We’d have to say Principal Layne’s initial suspicion that it was a joke sounds pretty convincing.

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