Science project prompts SD school evacuation
Found on Sign on San Diego on Friday, 15 January 2010
A vice principal saw the student showing it to other students at school about 11:40 a.m. Friday and was concerned that it might be harmful, and San Diego police were notified.
Luque said the project was made of an empty half-liter Gatorade bottle with some wires and other electrical components attached. There was no substance inside.
A MAST robot took pictures of the device and X-rays were evaluated. About 3 p.m., the device was determined to be harmless, Luque said.
The student will not be prosecuted, but authorities were recommending that he and his parents get counseling, the spokesman said.
Counseling for doing nothing wrong? It's amazing that sticking some cables into an empty bottle now makes you look like an insanse terrorist. The vice principal should get some serious counseling; he could have simply asked the student instead of throwing a hissy fit and calling in a whole army, only to make himself look like a fool. Seems like this is what the world has turned into: terrorists have won. Sure, you're not going to be bombed away away every day (in fact, chances to die in a terroristic attack are close to zero), but the majority of the population now lives in the fear of attacks (happily fueled by the governments who can easily extent surveillance) and sees threats and danger everywhere.