A Hastings student is in trouble with the law and Hastings school officials after he posted a picture of himself holding a pistol with a text on "snapchat" a popular social media that said "don"t come to school tomorrow."

One of the students who received the text said they didn't even know this person. When the young man was question by Hastings Police with his mother present, he said,  "it was a joke."

The pistol  taken  by officers is a "Powerline Daisy BB Gun Pistol.

The Barry County Prosecutor is  now reviewing the police report.

Names have not been released.