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Boy who found lighter suspended from NJ school
ap ^ | September 23, 2010

Posted on 09/23/2010 9:24:53 AM PDT by JoeProBono

JAMESBURG, N.J. (AP) -- Officials suspended a fifth-grader in New Jersey who found a lighter on his way to school.

Jamesburg school superintendent Gail Verona told The Home News Tribune of East Brunswick the lighter had the potential to compromise student safety.

But the 11-year-old boy's father questioned why school officials consider the lighter a weapon.

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TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; democrats; education; governmentschools; jamesburg; liberalfascism; lping; nj; publiceducation; publicschools; weapons; zerotolerance
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To: equalitybeforethelaw

>Have we arrived at zero tolerance for common sense now?

WHERE have you been? ;>


61 posted on 09/24/2010 11:24:03 AM PDT by swarthyguy (KIDS! Deficit, Debt,Taxes!Pfft Lookit the bright side of our legacy -Ummrika is almost SmokFrei!)
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To: Boogieman
Sticks are every parents worry. But don't forget sharpened pencils,pens without caps and forks from the cafeteria. At least there is one more illegal lighter off the streets!
62 posted on 09/24/2010 11:31:44 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Gus the Scotty dog likes cheese!)
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To: JoeProBono; Kenny Bunk; Shermy

One game we played was to take a matchbox, put a match under a thumbnail, point the box at another boy standing a couple of feet away with a similar setup and then mimic a gunfighter’s draw, sparking the matchhead with the thumbnail and directing it in the direction of the other boy.

Half the time you just ended up with a scalded, slightly burnt thumb.


63 posted on 09/24/2010 11:32:14 AM PDT by swarthyguy (KIDS! Deficit, Debt,Taxes!Pfft Lookit the bright side of our legacy -Ummrika is almost SmokFrei!)
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To: TChris

>>potential for something to go wrong is lazy and pedantic.

It’s the guiding principle in America now.


64 posted on 09/24/2010 11:34:18 AM PDT by swarthyguy (KIDS! Deficit, Debt,Taxes!Pfft Lookit the bright side of our legacy -Ummrika is almost SmokFrei!)
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To: All
Around 1968 I was in 6th grade attending Blackwood Terrace Elementary school in Southern N.J. I remember the huge oak trees that bordered the school playground would drop big,shinny,green acorns. A group of us guys had small pocket knives and we would carve pipes,(for make believe smoking)and whistles out of the acorns. Just fold up your knife and put it back in your pocket before you went back inside from recess. Never a problem!
65 posted on 09/24/2010 11:46:42 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Gus the Scotty dog likes cheese!)
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To: GlockThe Vote

Another cop basher,I see.


66 posted on 09/24/2010 1:02:47 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears

Most likely. Most cops, and I know many, are as bad as the crimials they claim to try to protect us from.


67 posted on 09/24/2010 3:31:36 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote
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To: 4yearlurker

“But don’t forget sharpened pencils...”

A kid at my school actually stabbed another kid in the neck/shoulder area with a pencil one time. Quite a few “lead poisoning” jokes were thrown about.


68 posted on 09/24/2010 3:38:03 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; JoeProBono; SheLion; Gabz; Hank Kerchief; 383rr; libertarian27; ...
I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that you are all treating this so lightly. This incredibly dangerous fire starter is the gateway device for many arsonists. While I normally do not hold with the death penalty for pre-teens, but in the case of this young would-be Nero, perhaps an example should be ma...... ............

OTOH, perhaps heavy doses of ritalin and ballet lessons might work? The parents of this wayward ute are just the type to allow a boy to carry a pocket knife, and also need citizenship counseling. Boy o Boy, Obama took over just in time!

69 posted on 09/24/2010 3:40:33 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Revive The Poll Tax and Literacy Requirement for voter registration.)
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To: GlockThe Vote

Looks to me like you’ve been hanging out with the wrong cops.


70 posted on 09/24/2010 3:45:10 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Kenny Bunk

71 posted on 09/24/2010 4:02:56 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
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To: dblshot
I was a kid of the late 50s and early 60's.

I remember when they banned marbles on the playground.

We played a version that required digging a small hole in the dirt.

Not seeing one of the many holes in the playground, one of the teachers tripped and broke her ankle. That ended that particular version of the game.

72 posted on 09/24/2010 4:14:17 PM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free, Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: this_ol_patriot; Boogieman

>>Clearly sticks are a most heinous violation of our precious zero-tolerance policies and must be expunged from our schools forthwith!
>
>I beg to differ, I think the real threat to our society are magnifying glasses and the young men who use them to concentrate the energy of the sun.

To make it even more enjoyable you volunteer for cleaning up trash on the school grounds taking all the Styrofoam and placing it in a separate bag from all the other trash; then you take about a pint of gasoline and dissolve as much of that Styrofoam into it as possible (it’ll make a REALLY thick goo) and then use the magnifying-glass or stick on it.

;)


73 posted on 09/25/2010 7:58:32 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: JoeProBono

Gov Christie need to give him a pardon...that would frost some lib muffins...8^}


74 posted on 09/25/2010 8:01:23 PM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: rightsmart
Last week my 11th grade son in government school asked to borrow my grill lighter. His Chemistry teacher asked the students in the AP class to each bring in a lighter for a lab because the school could not afford it due to budget cuts. I asked him if he will get in trouble for bringing a banned item to school; his response was the teacher told them to be sure to hide it so they don’t get into trouble...

The morons are eating their own. [facepalm]

75 posted on 09/25/2010 8:13:27 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: ThomasThomas
I am working on a pencil sharpener that rounds off the tip of the pencil so it won’t be so sharp. I am sure I can cell it to the schools.

A pencil UN-sharpener! Brilliant! I guarantee you can get a government contract.

76 posted on 09/25/2010 8:18:29 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: OneWingedShark
To make it even more enjoyable you volunteer for cleaning up trash on the school grounds taking all the Styrofoam and placing it in a separate bag from all the other trash; then you take about a pint of gasoline and dissolve as much of that Styrofoam into it as possible (it’ll make a REALLY thick goo) and then use the magnifying-glass or stick on it.

Home made napalm! Cool!

77 posted on 09/25/2010 8:22:15 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: davius
We would dissolve the zinc in Muriatic acid to produce hydrogen gas which we would capture in balloons.

Too bad you didn't learn the glories of taking industrial plastic trash bags, taping them together to make a much larger balloon and then filling them with mixtures of natural gas and hydrogen.

My personal favorite recipe for hydrogen was throwing a bunch of galvanized nails into a bucket of swimming pool acid and capturing the discharge in one of the trashbags. Instead of string, we used canon fuse. And for extra fun, we hung sheets of aluminum foil from the balloon to screw with the airport radar. One particularly good explosion/fire-ball actually got the local LEOs out.

78 posted on 09/25/2010 8:36:37 PM PDT by The Theophilus
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To: OneWingedShark

I still remember the day I took a whole roll of caps and whacked them with a hammer.


79 posted on 09/25/2010 8:50:14 PM PDT by this_ol_patriot
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To: Flash Bazbeaux

Don’t leave those hydrogenation experiments running
over the weekend when they were supposed to end after
one day. And to all graduate students, photocopy those
dissertion data notebooks and keep the copies offsite.
Offsite backups. OFFSITE, got it? Same goes for anyone
doing research outside of formal education. Remember
Victor Deeb.


80 posted on 09/26/2010 2:39:20 AM PDT by cycjec
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