Kids will do the darnedest things, won’t they?  Pushing eachother around on the playground, shooting spitwads during class, threatening to make their bullies disappear with the power of The One Ring…..wait, what was that last one?

Well, Kermit Elementary School deep in the heart of Texas has just suspended a 9 year old boy for doing just that. Aiden Steward, in a playful act of make-believe, told a classmate he could make him disappear.  Aiden reportedly said he would make the other kid ‘disappear like Frodo’, as the family had just finished watching the trilogy.

This poor kid has already been suspended twice THIS YEAR, the disciplinary actions were in-school suspensions for referring to a classmate as black and bringing his favorite book to school: “The Big Book of Knowledge.”

“He loves that book. They were studying the solar system and he took it to school. He thought his teacher would be impressed,” Steward said. But the teacher learned the popular children’s encyclopedia had a section on pregnancy, depicting a pregnant woman in an illustration, reports the NY Daily News.

Thanks Texas, for once again punishing kids with imaginations and humor.

“I assure you my son lacks the magical powers necessary to threaten his friend’s existence,” Aiden’s father wrote in an email. “If he did, I’m sure he’d bring him right back.”