7 arrested for cheering at graduation

Is it my imagination, or are a hell of a lot of people getting arrested for nothing lately?

In Rock Hill, South Carolina, 7 people attending high school graduations at 2 different schools were arrested for the "crime" of cheering when students' names were called. They were charged with disorderly conduct.

Really? Arrested for that?

At all the graduations I've been to (except at certain ultraconservative private schools), folks cheered when their relatives' names were called. I wouldn't exactly call that disruptive behavior.

These arrests followed a whole year in which many schools did absolutely nothing to serial bullies who barraged schoolmates with projectiles 200 times a day. Which sounds more like disorderly conduct to you? Cheering at a graduation, or harassing schoolmates?

Some of the people arrested at the graduations were siblings of the graduates. As part of their punishment, they were ordered to undergo drug testing and counseling.

Drug tests for cheering at a graduation? Seriously???

(Source: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2008/06/10/5834001-ap.html)