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For show and tell, kid brings deactivated grenade to school. Every body panic.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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February 13th, 2009 at 11:04 am
When I was in kindergarten I brought my new pocket knife in for show and tell. I didn’t even get in trouble for it. Of course I had no idea there was something “wrong” with bringing a knife to school. It never even registered in my mind at that point that a knife could be a weapon. Thankfully the school system had not yet gone insane when I was there.
February 13th, 2009 at 11:27 am
I have one of these things on a table in my living room. Found it while emptying a deceased friend’s storage unit…the day after I found a live one….
He was a WW2 buff. I found a german stick grenade and thought it was a replica. Um, nope. Long story short, my first thought when I found the practice grenade was, “oh, no. Not again….”
February 13th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
At least they didn’t arrest the kid. The article says he got a “stern talking to”.
So after the initial ridiculous panic, apparently some common sense broke out.
I love the obligatory “no injuries were reported”. Good to know he didn’t hit anyone with the hunk of metal he brought to school for show and tell.
February 13th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
When I was in elementary school in the 1960s just about every one of my friends and I had pocketknives with us. They were TOOLS not weapons and everyone understood that. In the 3rd grade I loaned mine to my teacher when she needed to open a package. The teachers these days would’ve had a stroke seeing us peeling bark off sticks or whittling during recess!
February 13th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Ah, i remember bringing a knife in for S&T in the 3rd grade. The reaction was bad, so i didnt go through with it, but then a fellow student ratted me out and it got taken away.
I still remember that bastard…
February 13th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
The police are giving the child a “good talking to” which means he did nothing illegal. Should further disciplinary action be taken against the child for performing a perfectly legal action with no harmful intent, I hope FIRE or the ACLU or the child’s parents or a mob of angry protesters fixes the idiots who try to hurt this kid for doing something that is perfectly OK.
February 13th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Aw, crap, this was in my corner of Texas, too. I’d hope people would have more sense than that here. I had an inert WW2 pineapple grenade myself once.
I took it with me to Texas A&M and used it as, you guessed it, a paper weight. Once my freshman year, during dead week before finals, when the Corps of Cadets no longer held formation or required us to wear uniforms, I remember our sophomores gathered us together in the “fallout hole”, i.e. me & my roommate’s room. They were mainly just playing psychological headgames with us, and I was getting tired of it, so I took the inert grenade off my desk and rolled it on the floor over to where the sophomores were standing, near the entrance, as a joke. My buddies all busted up laughing, and found it hard to stop laughing, even after they had us on our faces doing lots and lots of pushups for this little bit of insubordination.
Speaking of heritage type militaria, back in High School NJROTC, we used deactivated M-1 Garand rifles as our drill pieces. Well, I lied about my age on a mail order form and obtained an M1 bayonet. I took it to Drill Team practice, to see if it would really fit on the end of our M1s. Yep, sure did. My DT commander thought it was way cool. I’m sure the football coaches saw us, but they didn’t freak out or say anything. I kept the bayonet under the driver’s seat of my car the rest of my time in High School. When I look back it was probably not smart to do so (in Texas we have restrictions against “illegal knives” over a certain length; it’s legal to own and keep them in your domicile but you can’t carry them on your person or in a vehicle, I think–I don’t know if an M1 bayonet is legal or not in Texas, either then or now), but I didn’t see anything wrong with it at the time. I certainly didn’t try to do any aerial spins with the bayonet attached, just basic manual-of-arms type movements.
We were also the only NJROTC unit that I knew of who had the DT commander armed with a mock 1911 sidearm in a white leather holster. It was a plastic movie prop fake, designed to fire blanks, but it looked very realistic. It got funny looks but no one said we couldn’t use it. I don’t think they could get away with it today, though.