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Erie boy, 11, takes fake grenade on school bus
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | Friday, September 19, 2003 | Associated Press

Posted on 09/19/2003 10:49:29 AM PDT by Willie Green

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:35:19 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

ERIE, Pa. -- An 11-year-old northwestern Pennsylvania boy was suspended after school officials said he brandished a fake grenade and threatened to blow up his school bus.

The boy, a sixth-grader at Lawrence Park Elementary School near Erie, showed the inactive grenade to classmates on his bus on Wednesday and said he would pull the pin and blow up the bus, said Charles Lewis, chief of the Lawrence Park police.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: domesticterrorism; publicskools

1 posted on 09/19/2003 10:49:29 AM PDT by Willie Green
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To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
A young Darwin award wannabe in the making...

Just damn.

If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

2 posted on 09/19/2003 10:57:18 AM PDT by mhking (Don't mess in the affairs of dragons; For you are crunchy, and taste great with ketchup...)
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To: Willie Green
Dumbass alert.
3 posted on 09/19/2003 11:00:00 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: Willie Green
future enviromentalist?
4 posted on 09/19/2003 11:00:10 AM PDT by scab4faa (Can't sleep.. the clowns will eat me... Can't sleep.. the clowns will eat me... Can't sleep..)
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To: Willie Green
He should of locked it to his neck.
5 posted on 09/19/2003 11:01:35 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (No, Travis McGee didn't pay me to say nice things. Read his book!)
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To: Willie Green
Dumb-ass schools and cowards for what is supposed to be adults over-reacting to NOTHING!

At the very most - a calm explanantion to the kid and confiscation of the FAKE grenade since it was inappropriate to being a TOY to school.

6 posted on 09/19/2003 11:38:01 AM PDT by steplock (www.FOCUS.GOHOTSPRINGS.com)
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To: steplock
"Dumb-ass schools and cowards for what is supposed to be adults over-reacting to NOTHING!

At the very most - a calm explanantion to the kid and confiscation of the FAKE grenade since it was inappropriate to being a TOY to school.
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Hmmm...I have a dummy grenade at my house. I defy anyone to identify it as such if I'm holding it. Add to that the kid threatening to pull the pin and you've got something more to deal with than a kid with a toy, in my opinion. The kid knew it was a fake, but who else did? It's not really a funny story.
7 posted on 09/19/2003 12:08:15 PM PDT by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: All
He is suspended....
While the jock sodomizers/rapists are still in school.

Nice.
8 posted on 09/19/2003 12:11:00 PM PDT by CygnusXI (Where's that dang Meteor already?)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Dont be so cruel ... we dont know what sort of life this kid might live, perhaps everyday when he goes to school he is rediculed and made fun of by his peers...perhaps he is lonely because no one will dare to be his friend...doesnt mean he is a ´dumbass´´
9 posted on 09/19/2003 1:50:07 PM PDT by Norse
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Dont be so cruel ... we dont know what sort of life this kid might live, perhaps everyday when he goes to school he is rediculed and made fun of by his peers...perhaps he is lonely because no one will dare to be his friend...doesnt mean he is a ´dumbass´´
10 posted on 09/19/2003 1:50:25 PM PDT by Norse
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To: Willie Green
What are you guys kidding? This was practice for what this little monster is hoping to do one day!

Didn't you read to the end? "The boy is taught in a classroom by himself because of problems at another school, his father said.

"He knew he had to go back to class all by himself with no other students," his father said. "He indicated he felt like a prisoner."

This kid is a hand grenade waiting to go off.
11 posted on 09/19/2003 2:12:31 PM PDT by thegreatbeast (Quid lucrum istic mihi est?)
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To: Willie Green
I can just imagine this kid's future epitaph...

"Tried to put the pin back in."
12 posted on 09/20/2003 2:53:31 AM PDT by Pyrion
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