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That "science experiment" involved aluminum foil and drain cleaner. Anyone savvy enough to know the components knows they're making a bomb. -- (link)

Posted by landbeck May 2 '13, 08:53

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http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/bottlebomb.asp (www.snopes.com)

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In 8th grade my friends and I called multiple chem companies with the story we needed raw materials for making crystals in science class. - Max May 2, 09:41
it creates gasses that can build up and pop the vessel they're in. you can do the same thing with an air compressor and a 2-liter bottle. - colin May 2, 08:56
As long as the punishment matches exactly what a same-aged white boy would get, or possibly what Mythbusters would get, then it's fine. - Beryllium May 2, 08:55
anyone savvy enough would know that the small amounts of those components would create a reaction, not a bomb. -- nm - zork May 2, 08:54 20
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  - suspension for not being properly supervised, I can see the case for that. - znufrii May 2, 09:01 10
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      - I think to justify expulsion you would need some sort of threat, anti-social behavior, or malicious intent. - znufrii May 2, 09:07 2
        
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        your IM is what I was thinking too -- nm - zork May 2, 09:09
    - word. -- nm - Jim May 2, 09:02
    - right. Suspension, ok. Expulsion, *far* too much. -- nm - Don Homer May 2, 09:02 4
      - this, although it sounds like she was a model student before this. I'd give her a serious talking to and some detention. -- nm - zork May 2, 09:03 3
        
        this would be my preferred outcome as well. -- nm - znufrii May 2, 09:04
        
        I'd be even more ok with that. -- nm - Don Homer May 2, 09:04 1
        
        ayup -- nm - Jim May 2, 09:05
  - What about charging her with a felony and trying her as an adult? -- nm - Jim May 2, 08:57 2
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      - sounds like co-conspirator talk. i'm calling the FBI. -- nm - colin May 2, 08:59
- should my chem teacher have been arrested for showing why grain elevators go kaboom by blowing the lid off a paint can? -- nm - zork May 2, 08:55 4
  - yes. -- nm - colin May 2, 08:57 3
    - seriously? yet, with proper training kids can have guns? - zork May 2, 09:02 2
      - i'm joking. i do that a lot here.. -- nm - colin May 2, 09:43
      - It's almost as if Colin on b2 had a completely different opinion on the matter. Heh. -- nm - Qale May 2, 09:17

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