1 posted on
04/05/2006 7:23:22 PM PDT by
rawhide
To: rawhide
This man is lucky he is alive..
2 posted on
04/05/2006 7:26:16 PM PDT by
Dog
(We have had a date with destiny and Iran for 27 years---appealof2)
To: rawhide
The local radio station here is hoping someone has a video of the event.
To: rawhide
To: rawhide
It didn't explode spontaneously. He smashed it down on a bug on his desk, which dented the primer cap. 40mm is pretty big to set off in one's hand. Even a .45 could cause some burns and cuts.
5 posted on
04/05/2006 7:30:33 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
To: rawhide
Good thing he wasn't banging it on a student who was making noise.
6 posted on
04/05/2006 7:31:22 PM PDT by
mtbopfuyn
To: rawhide
...a "40-millimeter round?" That would be a grenade as far as I know (the kind fired from launchers).
7 posted on
04/05/2006 7:31:50 PM PDT by
familyop
("Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." --President Bush)
To: rawhide
He shouldn't be a teacher if he doesn't know you should not bang on a live round...
10 posted on
04/05/2006 7:33:52 PM PDT by
DocRock
To: rawhide
If that was a 40mm grenade, like contemporary ones, and in better condition, it could've had a kill radius of about 5 meters.
11 posted on
04/05/2006 7:34:24 PM PDT by
familyop
("Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." --President Bush)
To: rawhide
I recall someone finding a Civil War shell and using it as a doorstop. Which was really cool until it blew up.
13 posted on
04/05/2006 7:38:26 PM PDT by
Pelham
To: rawhide
"This is not something he just found last week," said Barry Tronstad, director of the center on Valentine Road. "It's something he played with when he was a little boy." I am really curious as to where he grew up that he found a live forty millimeter round just laying around waiting for a little boy to pickup and take home.
15 posted on
04/05/2006 7:46:07 PM PDT by
Pontiac
(Ignorance of the law is no excuse, ignorance of your rights can be fatal.)
To: rawhide
As paramedics wheeled Mr. Colla out of the school, he was heard saying, "Gee, it never did that before!"
17 posted on
04/05/2006 7:48:13 PM PDT by
Nachoman
(I love greasy old bolt guns.)
To: rawhide
I would hate to make rash assumptions, but maybe they should check to be sure some wacked student didn't re-dangerfy a genuine de-milled dud? Just to make sure. Can't go by a news article necessarily, they just get the main gist if lucky...
To: rawhide
I would hate to make rash assumptions, but maybe they should check to be sure some wacked student didn't re-dangerfy a genuine de-milled dud? Just to make sure. Can't go by a news article necessarily, they just get the main gist if lucky...
To: rawhide
"...but witnesses said Colla was using the paperweight ... to get the students' attention."
I bet it worked!
23 posted on
04/05/2006 7:55:38 PM PDT by
Nik Naym
(Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile has killed more people than Dick Cheney's shotgun.)
To: rawhide
witnesses said Colla was using the paperweight either to bang an object on his desk that was making noise or to get the students' attention. Exploding 40mm round 'll do it.
25 posted on
04/05/2006 8:05:45 PM PDT by
Oztrich Boy
("If you go out there with an innocent heart, you're eaten." - David Attenborough))
To: rawhide
(Finally,
I get to post this):
Where were teachers like this when I was a kid????
26 posted on
04/05/2006 8:18:48 PM PDT by
AlexandriaDuke
(Conservatives want freedom. Republicans want power.)
To: rawhide
When I was younger, we had some old 20 mm shells we used to bang on with a hammer. Never got them to fire and I am glad now. We did throw some in a fire and they did explode then, while we were safely away.
29 posted on
04/05/2006 8:25:44 PM PDT by
packrat35
(The America hating bastards at the NYT must spend their entire life with their heads in the toilet)
To: rawhide
What was it doing there in the first place. If a kid bought any kind of cartridge to school, he'd be suspended.
33 posted on
04/05/2006 9:05:56 PM PDT by
paul51
(11 September 2001 - Never forget)
To: rawhide
This timeless mother's saying seems appropriate...
"It's always fun and games till someone loses an eye"
To: rawhide
So much for "zero tolerance" at this school. Lucky he didn't have a picture of a gun.
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