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Right, and lighting a cigarette with a $1 convenience store butane lighter can be described innocuously as: Intentional ignition of an incendiary device via
by biot 14y ago
Right, and lighting a cigarette with a $1 convenience store butane lighter can be described innocuously as:
Intentional ignition of an incendiary device via the combustion
of highly compressed explosive gas using a manually triggered
high voltage electrical discharge.
Edit: while you're technically correct that if what was made was designed to explode then it is an IED, you could also say that blowing air into a Ziploc bag, sealing it, and then stomping on it is also an IED. Are Ziploc bags designed for this use? No, thus it was improvised. Did it explode? Yes. Was it a device? Yes. The problem is that IED is such a loaded term and its use in this case can be quite misleading.
- jlgreco 14y agoPerfectly fine description of what was done! /s Edit for your edit: Pictured: A man about to detonate an IED behind his friend's head: http://i.livescience.com/images/i/000/025/942/iFF/shutterstock_96175724.jpg?1333137351 http://i.livescience.com/images/i/000/025/942/iFF/shuttersto... "A bomb is a bomb" and the law apparently does not care about intent when an IED is involved. Somebody please send that man to jail.
- jack-r-abbit 14y agobut... smoking at school is not allowed so it doesn't really matter how you describe it. Oh... unless maybe you were just conducting an experiment... then it would be ok... I guess?
- jlgreco 14y agoWell then in that case lets arrest all of those delinquent smokers for attempted arson. The issue here is proportionality of response (and, local to this particular thread, the use of absurdly loaded language to exaggerate the nature of an offense in order to justify disproportionate responses).
- jack-r-abbit 14y agoAgain... there does not have to be an "all or nothing" situation. There is punishment less than felony conviction. I don't believe this girl is a felon and I don't believe she should go on without consequence.
- fancyketchup 14y agoWhat do you think would be an appropriate punishment?
- jack-r-abbit 14y agoI'd go with detention. Maybe something creative like 2 weeks cleaning up the science lab after school.
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