BROOKLYN PARK, Md. — A 7-year-old Maryland boy who chewed his breakfast food into the shape of a gun was suspended from school for two days, according to a report on BaltimoreSun.com.

Josh Welch, a second-grader at Park Elementary School in Brooklyn Park, Md., said he was trying to form a mountain with his strawberry flavored Pop-Tart but it ended up looking more like a gun, the report said.

An assistant principal said the boy pointed the pastry at another student, though Welch said he aimed for the ceiling.

William "B.J." Welch, the boy's father said, it is "irrelevant" who his son pointed the food at and called the episode "harmless."

School officials mailed a letter home to parents explaining the incident and asserting "one of our students used food to make inappropriate gestures that disrupted the class."

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