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January 19th, 2010, 07:40
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2010/01/the-anatchist-cookbook.jpgProving once again that there are no qualifications needed to be a middle-school vice-principal besides being kind of a dick, a San Diego veepee called the bomb squad (http://gizmodo.com/tag/bombsquad/) to investigate an 11-year-old's Gatorade-bottle-based science experiment. Stay classy, San Diego.
Apparently the kid, who sounds like a bit of a prodigy, really, brought in a homemade motion detector made of empty Gatorade bottles and "some electronics." Cool, right? Shows initiative, and it even recycles old bottles! This kid should be rewarded with a blue ribbon, or allowed to star in a remake of Real Genius! But no.
Instead, this alarmist puritan called the bomb squad to investigate and x-ray the kid's science project (http://gizmodo.com/tag/scienceproject/), evacuate the entire school, and search the kid's home. When the project was found to not, in fact, be a Gatorade-bottle-based explosive, the a-hole vice-principal didn't apologize, or resign, or laugh it off. No! He recommended that the student and his parents seek counseling. For making a project that would totally stump me! And I'm twice his age! Outrageous, I say. Out. Rage. Ous. [SignOn San Diego (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/15/students-evacuated-school-chollas-view/) via Boing Boing (http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/16/candy-ass-vice-princ.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2Fgadgets+%28Boing +Boing+Gadgets%29)]
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Apparently the kid, who sounds like a bit of a prodigy, really, brought in a homemade motion detector made of empty Gatorade bottles and "some electronics." Cool, right? Shows initiative, and it even recycles old bottles! This kid should be rewarded with a blue ribbon, or allowed to star in a remake of Real Genius! But no.
Instead, this alarmist puritan called the bomb squad to investigate and x-ray the kid's science project (http://gizmodo.com/tag/scienceproject/), evacuate the entire school, and search the kid's home. When the project was found to not, in fact, be a Gatorade-bottle-based explosive, the a-hole vice-principal didn't apologize, or resign, or laugh it off. No! He recommended that the student and his parents seek counseling. For making a project that would totally stump me! And I'm twice his age! Outrageous, I say. Out. Rage. Ous. [SignOn San Diego (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/15/students-evacuated-school-chollas-view/) via Boing Boing (http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/16/candy-ass-vice-princ.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2Fgadgets+%28Boing +Boing+Gadgets%29)]
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