Posted on 12/30/2012 1:02:02 PM PST by redreno
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. -
"It's ridiculously blown out of proportion."
That's how the mother of the 16-year-old Cedar Creek High School student arrested Tuesday described her son after local police found items at his home that could cause an explosion.
"He really cares about people," she said. "He's kind, he's loving, he's brilliant...I think this is fear because of what just happened in Connecticut."
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxphilly.com ...
Is there a household, anywhere in the developed world, that doesn’t contain electronic parts, and “chemicals that when mixed together could cause an explosion”?
sodium bicarbonate and acetic acid could cause an explosion.
I think an immediate warrant-less search of every home in America should be launched looking for dangerous household chemicals and any other object that could possibly be some kind of danger to someone.
Hmmm...”kind, loving and brilliant”...the typical description provided by the mother of a psychopath, especially the “brilliant” part.
I’d suspect there were other red flags that mother is not mentioning. And as for school authorities being a little nervous because of Newtown, I’d say that’s reasonable because these psychotics always find the actions of other psychotics to be inspiring and worthy of imitation. Another high school student, right around the time of the CT massacre, was planning on blowing up his school but fortunately boasted about it and was turned in by somebody.
If the kid is just an amateur inventor, I’m sure he’ll be fine. But it’s certainly best not to take chances - in case he’s not the next Thomas Edison after all.
http://173.201.187.68/state/new-jersey-teen-arrested-for-explosives
16-year old student at Cedar Creek High School in Atlantic County was arrested after police found bomb-making materials in his home.
According to the Press of Atlantic City, a teacher at the school noticed the boy had drawings of weapons in his notebook. She reported it to authorities and when investigators went to the boy’s home they found chemicals and electronic parts that could be used to form a bomb. The student was placed in Harborfields Detention Center.
A sweep of the school revealed no bombs. No threat had been made by the student. Cedar Creek is a magnet school that focuses on engineering, environmental sciences and hands-on learning.
Police Chief Pat Moran said there was no indication that any danger had been posed to the school or to any person. The family cooperated with the investigation.
Exactly what I was thinking.”They found electronic parts and several chemicals that when mixed together could cause an explosion.” I think we can blame all of this on Hollywood, especially MacGyver! Didn’t all of us as young boys tinker with something to try and make it go boom? And the thing that triggered the episode is that he drew a picture of a glove with flames coming out? Oh My God! I bet the teacher never looks at the drawings of the Amish children. I remeber when we wanted a child to use their imagination, now we punish them for it.
So all of this is based on drawings?
this is warped
Sure. I bet this is just what every amateur inventor needs to boost his ambition - getting arrested. I'm sure he'll be rarin' to go on with his experiments after this.
Cedar Creek is a magnet school that focuses on engineering, environmental sciences and hands-on learning.But God forbid you even think about guns or draw pictures. What have we done to boys in this country? The elite liberals have spent decades turning our future MEN into effete little woman wannabe’s.What they are attacking this boy for is what was considered normal when I was growing up. Now anything that used to be normal young male behavior has become suspect and criminalized.
Drawing of a glove (or hand) on fire, something I saw on many a notebook when I was in school in the 1980’s. This triggers a search of a home, where items, if combined in certain combinations, might result in an explosive device that is then translated into a possession of an explosive device charge??
Wow, someone wake me when reality starts again.
I think an immediate warrant-less search of every home in America should be launched looking for dangerous household chemicals and any other object that could possibly be some kind of danger to someone.
Normally I'd be against such an unconstitutional intrusion, but with all of the bad stuff going on lately, I'd be OK with a one time search and seizure operation.
</law and order republican>
Hold it right there!
These people actually have bleach AND ammonia in their house.
Arrest them all! /s
When I was in gramer school 65 years ago I went to the drug store and bought the chemicals and made black powder.
I then made rockets out of artillery shells and fire crackers.
Pathetic :/
I used to draw guns in school (one of my father’s hobbies was gunsmith) :p
I also used to draw dinosaurs... is that a threat too?
While I’m sure there’s more to the story, it does seem like flimsy evidence upon which to base a warrant.
Almost every household has the ability to make a Molotov cocktail. A bottle, a rag, a match, gasoline/ kerosine etc.
Perhaps the 4th amendment will be routinely circumvented on the baseless grounds of malicious hearsay, and suspicion of psychiatric illnesses. Government monitoring of electronic health records will be justified, and conservatism and libertarianism will be a DSM mental disorder. Same thing happened in the Soviet Union.
Back in fifth grade (1957) I used to make my own gunpowder and M-80’s. I made rocket fuel out of nitrate and powdered sugar and then launched my own homemade rockets in the schoolyard. No body gave a damn.Carbide was a hoot esp. in blowing the lid off old paint cans.We bought strike anywhere matches and attached them to the ends of homemade arrows. They ignited when shot against a brick wall.We even attached the homemade M80’s to arrows and shot them into the air like aerial bombs.One of the coolest things was spraying lighter fluid on the bottom of your shoes,igniting it, and running down the street afire at night . These activities were sooooo evil that I became a middle school science teacher for 35 years because of it .
Don’t Mentos and diet coke explode under the right conditions? Time to raid all the kwik-e-marts. 200+ years of freedom was clearly too much.
When I was 6 I had a toy submarine that was propelled by sodium bicarboate and acetic acid.
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