He'd probably get gunned down by a SWAT team now.
Posted on 06/10/2014 3:45:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The mother of a 12-year-old Connecticut boy has been arrested after police say her son brought a grenade to school for a show-and-tell related to 70th anniversary of D-Day
Lisa Miguel, of Stratford, was charged with risk of injury to a minor, reckless endangerment and illegal possession of an explosive.
Stratford Academy was placed on lockdown Friday. Students were sent to the back of the school. A bomb squad determined the grenade was a simulator used for training and still had the pin inside.
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Does that mean it wasn't actually a grenade, just a grenade-looking-thing?
My youngest son got a grenade - hollow plastic, but authentically green! - in a soldier Hallowe'en costume kit a couple of years ago.
I wish I could have been there to see the faces on the teachers and administrators.
Probably one quick look would tell anyone with common sense it was a training grenade. I used to play with them myself when I was a kid. What kind of idjits do we have running our schools?!
Next thing you know the kid will be selling powdered sugar.
So, what explosive did she have in her possession that would warrant charges of risk of injury to a minor, reckless endangerment and illegal possession of an explosive?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Some training grenades actually have a blasting cap inside. I hope it wasn’t one of those.
I have a couple of those around here somewhere - minus the arming mechanism.
“Does that mean it wasn’t actually a grenade, just a grenade-looking-thing?”
Should read the article before posting ....
Thanks, Son.
“Inquiring minds want to know.”
Inquiring minds should read the article.
“Does that mean it wasn’t actually a grenade, just a grenade-looking-thing?”
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When I was a kid, empty grenade shells were quite common. I remember having one back in the 50s.
So many things today are much ado about nothing.
Nobody was ever in danger. I think we used to take these to school all the time when I was a kid.
At one time these were sold at the Army Navy surplus stores.
Remember those?
I think now we sell all that surplus stuff to the terrorists in Syria.
I remember bringing realistic looking cap guns to school so we could play cowboys and Indians during lunch.
Those days are gone. Now you can't even say "Cowboys and Indians" and you'll get expelled if you even draw a picture of a gun.
It’s one thing for a 6 year old bringing a *toy* gun to school but a 12 year old bring something that even *looks* like a grenade is another.
So it might have gone Bang.
I think the school should get some points for mentioning the 70th anniversary of D-Day. It seems (from what my friends tell me) that most students don’t learn anything except the Holocaust, with an emphasis on the suffering of homosexuals, and that the atomic bomb was bad.
IIRC a simulator grenade is not the same thing as an inert or toy grenade. A simulator grenade has a charge that explodes and is akin to a giant fire cracker.
If I mentioned this to my teenagers, they’d be all over the place in a week. Buncha firebugs. My 17-year-old doused his forearms in rubbing alcohol and lit it.
Sorry, I'm a stickler for tradition.
A grenade simulator is a pryotechnic device which looks and sounds like a giant firecracker. It is used in training exercises to simulate combat explosions. A training grenade is essentially an inert grenade with the explosive charge removed. The fuse mechanism remains so that it activates in the same manner in order to give soldiers a sense of timing in pulling the pin, releasing the spoon, cooking off and throwing. These are typically used at the grenade range prior to using live grenades.
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