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Chemistry teacher sets students on fire in science experiment disaster
New York Post ^ | January 2, 2014 | Natasha Velez, Lorena Mongelli and Laura Italiano

Posted on 01/02/2014 1:29:42 PM PST by EveningStar

A chemistry teacher at Manhattan’s award-winning Beacon High School set two 10th graders on fire Thursday morning — leaving one boy with serious burns — in a fiery experiment gone horribly awry.

Teacher Anna Poole had hoped to treat her students to a “fun” demonstration during their first class back from the holiday break, students told The Post.

But four flaming crucibles in the Upper West Side public school’s third floor chemistry lab instead exploded into a fireball that raged across a countertop and engulfed sophomore Alonzo Yanes, 16.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: beaconhighschool; nyc; scienceeducation
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To: EveningStar

My highschool chem teacher, Mr. Heron, loved blowing stuff up. I think He is the reason that I became a Chemical Engineer. He never injured any of us students, but did take out a big chunk of the T-bar ceiling in the chem lab one time.


41 posted on 01/02/2014 3:38:49 PM PST by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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To: EveningStar
What movie is that scene from?

Not a movie. It's a scene from a Breaking Bad episode: "Crazy Handful of Nothin'" [season 1 episode 6.]

42 posted on 01/02/2014 3:39:13 PM PST by FredZarguna (Das is nicht richtig nur falsch. Das ist nicht einmal falsch.)
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To: EveningStar

I consider it a measure of the school’s educational prowess that they have tenth graders who are so ignorant as to not know how to pull the pin on a fire extinguisher...


43 posted on 01/02/2014 4:19:02 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: Black Agnes

Awful. Poor kid.


44 posted on 01/02/2014 6:03:13 PM PST by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

Willie pushed his sister Nell
Into the family drinking well
She’s there now because it kilter
Now they have to buy a filter.


45 posted on 01/02/2014 6:13:25 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless Americaa)
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To: Pharmboy

The worst thing that happened in my high school chem lab was an open bottle of butyric acid.

When the bottle is labeled ‘warning, stench’, believe it.


46 posted on 01/02/2014 6:15:10 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: Hang'emAll

I think I remember that.

Wasn’t that the inspiration for Elvis Presley’s big hit,

Return to Cinders?


47 posted on 01/02/2014 6:21:34 PM PST by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Black Agnes
Never heard of The Beacon School before today.
48 posted on 01/02/2014 8:55:14 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: Hoodat

My Chemistry teacher let us make Nitrogen Tri-iodide after school... fun stuff.


49 posted on 01/03/2014 4:01:48 AM PST by Rodamala
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To: EveningStar
Also, not guilty


50 posted on 01/03/2014 4:04:50 AM PST by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Those would never work here in Colorado.

The Forest Service only starts ‘controlled’ burns here during high winds, winds too fast for helicopter flights.


51 posted on 01/03/2014 6:25:25 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (Damn ObamaCare, full speed ahead!)
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