[CobaltBlue]

Oh, for Pete's sake.

[LongElegantLegs]

Poor kid, he must be heart broken. If it's 110 years old, what are the chances of it just spontaneously exploding?

[Husker24]

It was probably just an empty shell, not even a live one.

[NeonKnight]

110 years old? It may be worth some money.

[BipolarBob]

That does it! Junior will NOT be taking my hand grenade collection for show-and-tell.

[El Conservador]

Zero tolerance = zero common sense

[AnAmericanMother]

If it's WWI or earlier, it could be darned unstable.

The French still occasionally lose a farmer who accidentally plows up a live shell. The French government actually has a group of engineers who go around trying to find and dispose of old munitions before they kill somebody. Scary stuff.

[seawolf101]

Did he actually point the bullet at anybody?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

We have to shake My 12 year old Grandson upside down, to get all the .36 cal. balls for His muzzleloader out of His pockets. He built a trebuchet out of PVC pipe, for the science fair, and they wouldn't even let Him throw a tennis ball with it. Hey, school is out before long, and I've got all summer to remove the politically correct stuff He's been fed with.

[Larry Lucido]

When I was at McClellan in the summer of 1983, it seemed like there were two or three instances of kids finding unexploded WWII era ordnance and getting killed playing with it.

[Cicero]

I used to have one of those green pineapple type hand grenades when I was a kid, which my uncle gave me. I used to get a kick playing with it.

Also I assembled a large collection of hunting knives. Those were the days of innocence.

[FierceDraka]

And the poor kid will probably be expelled, and then both he and his parents will be subjected to psychological evaluation before he can get back into school.

/hates the public school system, the administrators, and their lawyers with an almost blind fury

[paul51]

Student brings 'big bullet' to class; school evacuated

it must have been one of those assault weapon bullets designed to kill

[RichInOC]

IN A.D. 2005...
...CLASS WAS BEGINNING.

[Jackknife]

[JesseHousman]

How stupid is this school's administration?

About as smart as a sack of rocks.

This is almost as stupid as San Francisco's TSC personnel who said they'd have to evacuate SF Airport if returning Iraqi vets were allowed to deplane!

[Horatio Gates]

This reminds me of when I was in 1st grade in 1971. I brought my Time Bomb game (based on hot potato) by Milton Bradley to school. It was tossed into some grass and when the nun in the play yard noticed it she evacuated the the whole area. I never did get that back.

[Renegade]

He should have brought in the MK 22 cannon shell I have sitting on my fireplace hearth . Would have really brought out the skid marks .

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Was it an expended shell?

[Hardastarboard]

There is a fascinating book called "Aftermath" (I forget the author's name) that talks in detail about the French ordninance disposal squads. The author relates an anecdote in which a French farmer used an unexploded shell for an anvil for literally decades, until his luck of course ran out.

That story always reminds me of the Bugs Bunny cartoon where he's hitting bombs on the nose with a mallet at the end of the cartoon, and marking them "Dud" if they don't explode. He comments to the camera "I can retire with a pension in 20 years!" or something to that effect.