I'm Glad They Arrested This Monster!

Our lands are safer now that this heinous criminal is behind bars:

His alleged crime was shooting a fellow pupil, a 9-year-old, in the back of the neck with a bean.

Yes, boys and girls, a bean. Like in pea shooter, but I guess this time it was a more powerful "bean shooter", which, as everybody knows, is the "assault weapon" of pea shooters:

The 10-year-old was arrested at 7:54 a.m. and charged with assault in the third degree with intent to cause physical injury, and reckless endangerment in the second degree for using a pea shooter while on a bus, police said.

Your tax dollars at work!

School officials declined to comment.

Out of sheer embarrassment, no doubt.

The child who was hit was taken to Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze, with pain and swelling at the area of impact. He was treated and released, according to a hospital spokeswoman.

Diagnosis: Owwie.

You can't make this stuff up.