Posted on 09/23/2010 9:24:53 AM PDT by JoeProBono
JAMESBURG, N.J. (AP) -- Officials suspended a fifth-grader in New Jersey who found a lighter on his way to school.
Jamesburg school superintendent Gail Verona told The Home News Tribune of East Brunswick the lighter had the potential to compromise student safety.
But the 11-year-old boy's father questioned why school officials consider the lighter a weapon.
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“These idiots would have gone bonkers over my old high school chemistry lab!!”
Ah the old science labs were rife with dangerous stuff, weren’t they? I remember in elementary school, our teacher taught us how to distill alcohol, and me and a friend promptly went home, set up the old home chemistry set, and tried to distill some brandy to make it stronger. Needless to say, heating brandy in a test tube over the stovetop did not result in the effect we hoped for :)
“Steam Powered Potato Pistol”
Very cool, but I suspect someone has too much free time on their hands!
Have you ever been hit with a book? OUCH!
A weapon? Obviously the left has lost its collective mind.
I remember formulating nitrogen tri-iodide crystals in Jr. High School and scattering them in the hallway before class change. Good times! Countless hours were also wasted collecting dead batteries and salvaging them for the zinc. We would dissolve the zinc in Muriatic acid to produce hydrogen gas which we would capture in balloons. We would tie off the balloon with a string which we would then set on fire and release. The resulting fireballs were glorious. To this day, I don’t know why we hated the planet so much. If people get their panties in a twist over a lighter, I’m sure if a kid did anything that was remotely scientific, they would live out their days in a Homeland Security compound. Remember Kids! Science is Magic Made Dangerous!
Our rifle range at high school was under the visitor’s bleachers, had an eight thick concrete roof over head.
And the arms room had about 40 .22 rifles and 50 or so demilled 1903 Springfields not to mention various and sundry arms that were in transit.
Ah the good ol days ;-)
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Another reason why "Cops Cause Crime": Blind and deaf bureaucratic, institutional loyalty replaces common sense.
LMAO! Great costume for Halloween: jihad or treat!
99.9% of cops give the other.01 a bad name.
I laugh hysterically at the fools on this site getting behind “law enforcement” as if they are behind you, the taxpayer.
Wonder how soon expelling gas will be considered a weapon?
“Sulpheric” = Sulfuric
We played with pocket knives and the target was between the other kids feet as the game went on the kid moved his feet closer and closer making a smaller target. If he quit he lost unless the thrower missed and kit his foot first. Luckly we wore good shoes! THe board game is a bit before my time.
Uh, you can hold that one.
The time has come to stop tolerating incompetent school administrators and teachers.
We must take back the school boards, and kick-out unions, and NEA.
Reminds me of what an old Ph.D said once to some technicians, when one of his experiments exploded in the lab: “Well, that’s R&D. Clean it up.”
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