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I "invited" the LAPD Bomb Squad to my High School Graduation when some punk kid crawling on a roof he was not authorized to be on found a little science demonst
by jerrya 13y ago
I "invited" the LAPD Bomb Squad to my High School Graduation when some punk kid crawling on a roof he was not authorized to be on found a little science demonstration a friend and I had set up for the time of graduation and told a gym teacher who took the science demonstration from where it had been safely installed and placed it in his enclosed office and called the LAPD Bomb Squad (on my behalf.)
I was uh, fingered by our Physics professor who ran into me before graduation, and said, "Jerry, what did you do?"
Was pulled off the grad night school bus just before it left for a talk with Nick the Narc, Principal, and LAPD.
We talked for a bit, I explained I hadn't done anything terribly unique, pissed them off by telling them I copied my designs from the Rockford Files (google it), and then they sent me off to Disneyland with the rest of my graduating class.
(Had I known how popular that made me on the bus that night, I would have done it sooner.)
Went to college, found one other engineering student in my small class of engineering students that had done practically the same thing I had done the same week within the same state.
This was back before zero tolerance of course, and back before GWOT, and back before we decided we had to burn down our own village in order to save our village.
Back when folks grew a sense of humor.
So Kiera, I think what is being done to you is a gross abuse.
- enjo 13y agoSo Kiera, I think what is being done to you is a gross abuse. I could not agree more.
- rurounijones 13y agoI really cannot parse that first paragraph, can anyone translate? (Or OP change it)
- davidcuddeback 13y ago> I "invited" the LAPD Bomb Squad to my High School Graduation when some punk kid crawling on a roof he was not authorized to be on found a little science demonstration a friend and I had set up for the time of graduation and told a gym teacher who took the science demonstration from where it had been safely installed and placed it in his enclosed office and called the LAPD Bomb Squad (on my behalf.) "Punk kid" was crawling on a roof. He was not authorized to be on said roof. He found the OP's science demonstration that he set up on the roof to go off during graduation. The "punk kid" told a gym teacher, who contained the experiment to his office and called the LAPD. The bomb squad arrived to investigate.
- jerrya 13y ago(Where science demonstration is probably something like fireworks, skyrockets, roman candles, m-80s, but OP is being vague, so we can't be sure.)
- rageear 13y agoOP sets up a "science demonstration" on roof of his high school A "punk kid" discovers said "demonstration" The "punk kid" tells the gym teacher The gym teacher takes the "science demonstration" from where it was safely installed to his enclosed office The gym teacher calls the LAPD bomb squad
- gyardley 13y agoHe put some sort of device that would make a loud boom up on a roof, intended to coincide with his graduation ceremony. Another kid found it and reported it to an authority, who put it in his small enclosed office (thereby making it much less safe) and then called the bomb squad.
- tommytsunami 13y agoThe author of the parent comment set up his own 'experiment' on the roof of the school that was planned to go off at graduation. I am assuming it was nothing malicious but something 'fun' like fireworks. Unfortunately for the author, another student climbed the roof and discovered the 'experiment'. He reported it to a gym teacher, who was suspicious of what is was and subsequently called the Bomb Squad, therefore spoiling the graduation 'surprise'.
- masklinn 13y agoHe'd setup some blow-up stuff (likely fireworks/rockets of some sort) with a friend on high-school roof in preparation of graduation, an other student crawled on the roof, found it, snitched to the principal who called LAPD Bomb Squad and moved said stuff from the roof to his office. He worded it as if his "experiment" had been an invitation to the LAPD.
- standeven 13y agoWhat was the rooftop science demonstration?
- sammyo 13y agoUnspecified but probably an exothermic reaction that would release a large puff of smoke.