Knife games turn sour

Two boys and a girl - all aged 14 - have been charged with attempting to hold up a young woman at knifepoint on the Gold Coast. The trio bailed up the 22-year-old woman after she got off a bus at Main Beach about 9pm (local time) last night. Closer to home, an 11-year-old girl was expelled from Whangaparaoa College after she pulled a knife on another girl. The knife wasn't used but it was not just threatened in a minor way, it was pointed and she threatened, 'I will use this on you'. This sort of carry-on is why kids shouldn't be playing around with knives. It could've been a whole lot worse had either knife actually been used on its intended victim.