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LA Authorities Warn Of More Booby-Trapped Pens
The Guardian (UK) ^ | 12-7-2005 | Dan Glaister

Posted on 12/06/2005 8:19:16 PM PST by blam

LA authorities warn of more booby-trapped pens

Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
Wednesday December 7, 2005
The Guardian (UK)

The authorities in Los Angeles have issued a warning to pupils after the discovery of three exploding pens. The latest booby-trapped device went off on Friday morning when a pupil picked up a marker pen lying on the floor in the boys' toilets. It went off in his hands. In August two other devices went off at El Monte district schools, injuring two others. The victims suffered minor burns and scratches on their hands and faces.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: authorities; booby; california; la; more; pens; trapped; warn

1 posted on 12/06/2005 8:19:17 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

BTTT


2 posted on 12/06/2005 8:22:07 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Tagline Repair Service. Let us fix those broken Taglines. Inquire within(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: blam
Booby-Trapped Pens Injure Three In L.A. Schools
3 posted on 12/06/2005 8:22:11 PM PST by blam
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Great!

Now the TSA gooberment workers will be examining every pen in your pocket as you pass through airport security.


4 posted on 12/06/2005 8:24:44 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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"Now the TSA gooberment workers will be examining every pen in your pocket as you pass through airport security."

What's in your wallet?

5 posted on 12/06/2005 8:26:59 PM PST by blam
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An Exxon credit card....

I don't fly anymore if driving is at all practical.


6 posted on 12/06/2005 8:29:52 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: blam

Exploding Pens.

Her in Iraq, we have a word for them...

...they're called IED's.


7 posted on 12/06/2005 8:36:02 PM PST by Old Sarge (In a Hole in the Ground, there Lived a Fobbit...)
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To: blam

How much do you want to bet, someone named Mohammed or Achmed is behind this?


8 posted on 12/06/2005 9:38:00 PM PST by Rytwyng
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To: blam

Young mulsims-in-training??


9 posted on 12/06/2005 10:55:15 PM PST by GeronL (Leftism is the INSANE Cult of the Artificial)
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To: Rytwyng

I dunno... at my Junior High were some brilliant sci nerds who kept experimenting with their "projects" by blowing up the boy's room toilets. Their defense "No one uses these". lol.


10 posted on 12/07/2005 4:14:05 AM PST by Alia
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at my Junior High were some brilliant sci nerds

Got something against science nerds?

We're here
We're nerds
Get used to us
You work for us

11 posted on 12/08/2005 11:32:30 PM PST by Rytwyng
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lol. Are you whacked? I got along great with the sci nerds. We were all in that hated "4.0" group. But at least, back then, after blowing the toilets up.. they didn't try that weasely "we were making a political statement" tripe that now passes for leftist "intelligentsia".

They were merely trying out their newer concoctions and they chose (they said) to try these out on the least useful items in the school: the toilets in the boy's lavatory.

Ergo, "exploding" pens in this day and age: "We are trying our concoctions out on the least useful items in the school."

lol. New Standards, a New Age in non-educational Educational institutions...

12 posted on 12/09/2005 4:29:05 AM PST by Alia
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