Posted on 08/10/2011 6:39:57 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - A 13-year-old boy, responding to a traditional start-of-school assignment, says he spent his summer making explosive devices.
The Rutherford County Sheriff's Office said in a news release Wednesday the Smyrna boy was charged with manufacturing explosive devices, a felony.
Investigators said he had told his eighth-grade classmates, during the assignment at school, what he had done.
Deputies did not disclose the precise explosive devices.
The teacher alerted authorities who obtained consent from the boy's mother to search the family home. The devices were removed.
A Juvenile Court hearing for the boy is pending.
Once upon a time, before everyone in America got ants in their pants, ALL boys made their own explosives.
Now, of course, no one can even ride a bike without a crash helmet.
Sign of the times.
Powdered magnesium on ant hills when I was in sixth grade. Also gunpowder with my Junior Chemistry Set; lot of ants died.
Some homeschoolers I know were arrested several years ago because they were making experiments on the front lawn with - wait for it - vinegar and baking soda for their schoolwork.
They were actually arrested for making explosive devices. The cops kept the kids a day in jail. Thank heavens someone knew a lawyer. I’m talking about young teens.
I know it sounds like bizarro world, but it wasn’t . It was here, in the South, in America.
Boom
There is also another huge mosque going in where a movie theater used to be in Antioch. South Nashville. Not too awfully far from the mega-mosque in Mosqueboro, I mean Murfreesboro.
Its kinda like the movie Red Dawn. Only its Red Crescent Dawn.
We’re surrounded. Pretty soon I’m going to have to start wearing a burqa to get in and out of the area.
There is also another huge mosque going in where a movie theater used to be in Antioch. South Nashville. Not too awfully far from the mega-mosque in Mosqueboro, I mean Murfreesboro.
Its kinda like the movie Red Dawn. Only its Red Crescent Dawn.
We’re surrounded. Pretty soon I’m going to have to start wearing a burqa to get in and out of the area.
Yep... as I thought... how could it not be?!
LLS
When I was 8, I brought a sledge hammer down on an entire coiled roll of caps on the garage floors. I really think that explosion is why I have tinnitus today. It was staggering.
City kids and modern kids have no clue about the cool dangers they missed.
What we did was got a huge plastic bag from a factory in town. We took the seats out of the car and laid the bag inside and filled it with acetylene and oxygen. We used a spark plug to ignite it.
It blew all the windows out, popped the trunk and laid the grass flat for 50 yards around. About a half hour later a county cop rolled by a couple of times real slow.
Funny thing is that at that time we were very likely listening to exactly this same music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0UoyN_Ends&feature=player_embedded
Geez....we built pipe bomb divot diggers we electrically ignited with 120v 60HZ in the back yard....we graduated to one gallon gas cans...with gasoline vapor ..and 22cal rifle igniter!!!
AMAZING...absolutely AMAZING we made in through adolescence and out the other side of teenagedom...especially in the jalopies we had with more motor than brakes..and certainly no airbags or ABS!!!
Felony, you say? I’m glad there’s a statute of limitations.
His “explosive” was probably black powder. And don’t assume he is Muslim, a good friend of mine said that he was fascinated by explosives as a kid and made some nitroglycerin in his grandfather’s walk in cooler. It’s a wonder he didn’t kill himself.
Hee hee... gotta love it!
LLS!
Thermite pipe bombs....Wow did they blow!
Still have the big one I inherited from my Dad. LOUD!
Can they punish you retroactively? If so, at age 66, I’m in a helluva lot of trouble ...
LOL. Good grief, any high school chemistry student can — and DID — that back in the day. And, some of them did bigger stuff than that. It ain’t rocket science.
When the hell are we gonna stop going ape every time what used to be fairly routine kid stuff turns into a freaking FELONY. My God, the world has gone slap nuts and doing its best to turn little boys into little girls.
Maybe that’s what happened to Obozo.
In the 8th grade I had a booming little business selling modified motorcycle spokes bent into the shape of a gun and powered with the tops of matches. Unfortunately, word got back to the principal. Business closed.
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