Imagine their reaction if it it had looked like a gun barrel...
Thanks ozark hilljilly.
You’re welcome!
I originally saw the story at Boing-Boing, but thought their headline was a little too vulgar for here, so I went with the source. I grew up around there.
However, Boing-Boing’s summary of the story is funny:
“A San Diego school vice-principal saw an 11-year-old’s home science project (a motion detector made out of an empty Gatorade bottle and some electronics), decided it was a bomb, wet himself, put the school on lockdown, had the bomb-squad come out to destroy X-ray the student’s invention and search his parents’ home, and then magnanimously decided not to discipline the kid (though he did recommend that the child and his parents get counselling to help them overcome their anti-social science behavior). “