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High school student faces adult felony charges for setting off chemical reaction

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Re: High school student faces adult felony charges for setting off chemical reaction

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Post by yoster »

Wonder if it has to do with her skin color. This was nowhere near a real bomb and it sounds like a stupid prank if anything. When I was younger, I had a cap gun that looked like a real gun. I was messing around with it while everyone was taking a test. I thought it would be funny and shot off a bunch of rounds. No one got scared, they just turned their heads to the back of the room and smiled when they saw who it was. The teacher rolled her eyes and said "office". I got suspended for it, and was told that I would have to have a parent-principle meeting to go back to school. I ended up "playing hooky" from school for a month because I didn't want to tell my parents. Nowadays if I did this, I would end up with a slew of felonies. Things have really changed from the 90's....

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Post by jspark »

yoster wrote: post #2

Wonder if it has to do with her skin color. This was nowhere near a real bomb and it sounds like a stupid prank if anything. When I was younger, I had a cap gun that looked like a real gun. I was messing around with it while everyone was taking a test. I thought it would be funny and shot off a bunch of rounds. No one got scared, they just turned their heads to the back of the room and smiled when they saw who it was…

The nation just has become more paranoid because of certain events in the past decade.

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Post by songzme »

90% of high students don't know the consequences of putting certain household chemicals together. When I was a student I would put anything together that can cause a spectacular reaction (mentos in coke). It is school's responsibility to make the students aware of the dangers associated with it. If not, kids will always run around trying to blow shit up because they don't fully understand the explosiveness of certain chemicals. Science classes should have more 'safe' explosions.

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Post by yoster »

jspark wrote: post #3
yoster wrote: post #2

Wonder if it has to do with her skin color. This was nowhere near a real bomb and it sounds like a stupid prank if anything. When I was younger, I had a cap gun that looked like a real gun. I was messing around with it while everyone was taking a test. I thought it would be funny and shot off a bunch of rounds. No one got scared, they just turned their heads to the back of the room and smiled when they saw who it was…

The nation just has become more paranoid because of certain events in the past decade.

It also seems bullying has grown to astronomical proportions.

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Post by rayiner »

Oh Florida.

Funny story. The high school (and I believe the middle school too) in the town where I grew up is close enough to the CIA campus in Langley that model rockets have been known to land there and be returned by men in suits (with any cameras taken out, of course).

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