A 7-year-old was suspended from his Baltimore, Maryland, school on Thursday after he was reported for biting his Pop-Tart into a shape his teacher thought was a gun.

According to a story posted on KMGH-TV, Josh Welch claimed he was trying to nibble his strawberry snack into a mountain shape, but a teacher at the second grader's Park Elementary School saw things differently. She got "pretty mad," Welch told the ABC affiliate; the boy said he knew he was "in big trouble."

His dad, B.J. Welch, said of the suspension, "I would almost call it insanity. I mean with all the potential issues that could be dealt with at school -- real threats, bullies, whatever the issue is. It's a pastry."