Posted on 06/09/2007 7:39:56 AM PDT by loreldan
>Caleb Pegues left his home in Parker and headed to Ponderosa High School on April 20 with a backpack containing his books, his homework and an empty 20-ounce drink bottle. A few minutes later, he stopped at a Wal-Mart and bought cinnamon rolls for a fellow student riding in the car with him. According to a police report, he also bought some household products that can be used very differently from the way they were intended. The 17-year-old, who'd done mission work with his mother in Thailand and Vietnam, is suspected of combining those products in the plastic drink bottle and lobbing it near the school. The concoction created a blast and burst of vapor. The noise set off a chain of events that brought dozens of police, firefighters and paramedics to Ponderosa High that Friday morning.
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My stupidest moment, vying for the Darwin Award, was when I was burning snow as a 12 year old. Snow doesn’t burn too well, so I was using gasoline. The flames were dying down, so I poured more on. The can caught on fire. I stuffed it into a snow bank, snuffing it out. I’ve been counting my blessings ever since.
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