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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Mentos and Diet Coke should be outlawed.
It may come to that.
Nah, let’s get to the heart of the problem.
Teenagers should be outlawed.
Put in cryo till they are 25 at least.
Yes, when I was a boy I got a chemistry set for Christmas, and among other things made explosives with it. “Pipe bomb” was a fun word back then. Now it tends to have a different meaning.
Actually my biggest exploit was a doorknob bomb, which we set off after lights out at school. People 10 or 20 miles away heard the noise and thought that a boiler had blown up. We very carefully set it off with dynamite fuse through one of the screw holes. We placed it down below a stone retaining wall where it would be sure not to do any damage to anything.
Kind of harsh. I prefer what I call the "Heinlein Method".
"Adolescent boys should be sealed in a barrel at the age of 13 or so. They can be fed through the bung. At 18 one can decide if they merit being freed or if one should simply seal up the bung."
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I doubt it was Diet coke and Mentos. I’m thinking aluminum foil a XXX (insert household cleaning product here) to make a 2 litre soda bomb?
No kiddin'.
-—backbreaking agricultural labor serves the same purpose—just isn’t enough of it to go around anymore-—
We would have found ourselves in trouble for blowing up a bottle bomb at school just as this kid did. However, since school shootings and bombings were not thought of yet, the bomb in our day would not have brought such a response by the PD, FD, etc.
The boy should have had better sense, and should be fined heftily for the expenses of the said departments. However, a felony charge is overboard!
These people live in Girlyworld. No wonder twenty-something males are such sissies.
My thoughts exactly. If it was really just “a burst of vapors” it could very well be.
After I served my two week suspension from said Science Lab I got an A for the semester, mostly because I remembered to properly cool the reaction.
Plust my science teacher thought setting it off by letting it come to ambient (about 80 degrees or so IIRC) and tossing a brick onto it was really cool.
Of course he got to toss the brick....
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Make him write a 20-page essay on why he should not be "stupid" again.
Few people know of, nor remember, the worst school massacre in US history, most think of Columbine or some other recent act.
I suggest you Google "Bath school bombing". It's quite a story, especially if you spend some time at the web site devoted to it.
For a few days it was the biggest story in the country, but then along came Lindbergh & knocked it out of the news.
Exactly. My kids are going to be kids, so they can remember back to their childhood and remember all the dumb things they did - like we’re doing now. I refuse to buy my kids helmuts and kneepads for bike riding, for instance. much less for heely’s like they’re recommending now.
Propped it up against a cement wall of a grocery store adjacent to a field, lit the fuse and ... BLAM ... the whole thing blew. We looked at each other, not believing what we just did. Couldn't hear a thing. My sister heard it 4 miles away and thought it was thunder.
People evacuated the store, thinking the air conditioning unit blew up. We ran and ran ...
No damage at all, but we're lucky we weren't killed. Those were the days.
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