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[Qalbert]

have you ever seen a black scientist?

[Qalbert]

yes, obviously

[SamanosukeShiva]

just saw this news, fucking florida man. Also, fun fact, the guy who owns the fertilizer plant that blew up didnt even get arrested.

another video about the girl

[Tyrath]

Edit: Nvm, I'll post this in the dumb police shit thread.

[Necronus]

just saw this news, fucking florida man. Also, fun fact, the guy who owns the fertilizer plant that blew up didnt even get arrested.

another video about the girl

What high school chem class doesn't have at least one student accidentally making an explosive reaction (either goofing off or unintentionally). I can think of several occasions from high school where various, potentially deadly, reactions managed to happen when a teacher left people unsupervised.

I swear ... society is starting to remind me of the damn AI from that crappy I Robot movie where we'll just reach the conclusion that the only way to be truly safe is to live in padded rooms, never leave, and let robots do everything ... >.>

[Salodin]

Don't know why people are getting their jimmies all rustled, she got what she deserved. Being tried as an adult might be a little much, but the schools disciplinary decisions was spot on. She had a lapse in judgement, and was lucky no one got hurt. If she was curious about what would happen, ask a teacher; don't go to the back of the school and start mixing chemicals to see what happens.

[Moss]

imagine if she had accidentally made an atomic explosion

[Milkster]

Don't know why people are getting their jimmies all rustled, she got what she deserved. Being tried as an adult might be a little much, but the schools disciplinary decisions was spot on. She had a lapse in judgement, and was lucky no one got hurt. If she was curious about what would happen, ask a teacher; don't go to the back of the school and start mixing chemicals to see what happens.

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[Necronus]

Don't know why people are getting their jimmies all rustled, she got what she deserved. Being tried as an adult might be a little much, but the schools disciplinary decisions was spot on. She had a lapse in judgement, and was lucky no one got hurt. If she was curious about what would happen, ask a teacher; don't go to the back of the school and start mixing chemicals to see what happens.

She should get a week of detention ... mayyyyybe a week suspension at most. No cops, no criminal record, no felony for sure.

Also ... is it just me or do we just try everyone as adults now? why even set the line where it is if we keep trying 16-17 yr olds as adults. Either move the line down or quit being so random.

[zoobernut]

Man when I was in highschool the things we did in Honors and AP chemistry would have had the entire classes and the teacher arrested today. Sad to see this kind of crap happening. We made tennis ball launchers/guns, played with gun cotton, played with pure sodium metal and water, we made this substance I forget exactly what it was I think it was potassium iodide that exploded when it dried out completely. It was a purple paste that when it finished drying out it went boom. I am sad that my son won't have those same experiences in school.

[Brill Weave]

Man when I was in highschool the things we did in Honors and AP chemistry would have had the entire classes and the teacher arrested today. Sad to see this kind of crap happening. We made tennis ball launchers/guns, played with gun cotton, played with pure sodium metal and water, we made this substance I forget exactly what it was I think it was potassium iodide that exploded when it dried out completely. It was a purple paste that when it finished drying out it went boom. I am sad that my son won't have those same experiences in school.

I remember dissecting a cat in honors biology and my lab partner put his hand through the cat like a puppet and was moving it's mouth pretending to talk to the cheerleader in front of us. He's in jail now for performing unlicensed animal husbandry.

[Odin'sLaw]

I remember dissecting a cat in honors biology and my lab partner put his hand through the cat like a puppet and was moving it's mouth pretending to talk to the cheerleader in front of us. He's in jail now for performing unlicensed animal husbandry.

can't say you didn't see that coming >.>;

[Pharaun]

Man when I was in highschool the things we did in Honors and AP chemistry would have had the entire classes and the teacher arrested today. Sad to see this kind of crap happening. We made tennis ball launchers/guns, played with gun cotton, played with pure sodium metal and water, we made this substance I forget exactly what it was I think it was potassium iodide that exploded when it dried out completely. It was a purple paste that when it finished drying out it went boom. I am sad that my son won't have those same experiences in school.

We made dry ice cannons in my high school chemistry class and were using them to see who could launch a small pumpkin the farthest. My chem teacher was freaking awesome, it's too bad he can't do half the fun stuff anymore for fear of getting fired. The school/district is way over reacting on this.

[Byrthnoth]

I was the only person in my high school to apply for "Club Funds" due to the obscurity of the process (aka no one else knew they existed). We ended up having access to something like a thousand dollars for random projects. In retrospect, I am acutely aware of three things:
1) If I'd fucked up at any point and someone had gotten hurt, the school would have been sued super hard.
2) I was really lucky that no one ever asked what we were doing and our faculty club adviser was leaving that year so he never showed up.
3) I'd probably have gotten in trouble if anyone had figured out where the crap that randomly showed up on the baseball field was coming from.

We had two projects that were explicitly explosive. Everyone made their own potato cannon and we made Estes rockets that used their secondary charges to blow up. You have never seen a gaggle of dorks giggle so hard than when watching a rocket ascend two hundred feet and then make a notable "pop" and disintegrating. We had a third project that wasn't really intended to explode, but we tried to make a trebuchet (about as tall as us) and ended up lighting a little electric motor on fire because our lever was too heavy. Anyway, the point is that we didn't really know what we were doing and any project could have had a disastrous result, but it was still fun and I know that several members of the "club" continued on to scientific careers.

[TummieGaruda]

Question is, did this happen in the Chemistry lab, or did she just mix the chemicals say outside in the football field or parking lot?

[Salodin]

Outside in a large field if iirc. We're led to believe it was far from other students and property, but she still (unconsciously) improvised a bomb on school property. Like I said, being tried as an adult might be a little far, but the expulsion at the least was justified.

[Kerberoz]

The "bomb" was no more dangerous than sealing dry ice in a soda bottle. Suspension, at most...

[Salodin]

I can make things up too dude.

What we know is she mixed "household" chemicals. That's pretty ambiguous, and some chemical mixtures are gonna be more dangerous in a closed bottle then dry ice. This isn't new, something similar happened when I was in high school (2006) and he got expelled too (don't think formal charges were filed though, even though a bomb squad came in).

Sucks they took it that far but that's how it is, she should have known not to go making chemical bombs in a school zone.

[BaneTheBrawler]

but all she was doing was trying to hit her fellow students with a water bottle. By exploding it.

[Rakiel]

MURRAY, Utah -- A Utah soccer referee who slipped into a coma after being punched by a teenage player during a game a week ago died Saturday night, police said.

Ricardo Portillo, 46, of Salt Lake City passed away at the hospital, where he was being treated following an assault, Unified police spokesman Justin Hoyal said.

Police have accused a 17-year-old player in a recreational soccer league of punching Portillo after the man called a foul on him and issued him a yellow card.

"The suspect was close to Portillo and punched him once in the face as a result of the call," Hoyal said in a press release.

The teen has been booked into juvenile detention on suspicion of aggravated assault.

Hoyal said authorities will consider additional charges since Portillo has died.

He said an autopsy is planned. No cause of death was released.

Portillo suffered swelling in his brain and had been listed in critical condition, Dr. Shawn Smith said Thursday at the Intermountain Medical Center in the Salt Lake City suburb of Murray.

The victim's family, which publicly spoke of Portillo's plight this past week, has asked for privacy, Hoyal said.

Johana Portillo, 26, said last week that she wasn't at the April 27 game in the Salt Lake City suburb of Taylorsville, but she said she's been told by witnesses and detectives that the player hit her father in the side of the head.

"When he was writing down his notes, he just came out of nowhere and punched him," she said.

Accounts from a police report, Portillo's daughter and others further detail what occurred.

The teenager was playing goalie during a game at Eisenhower Junior High School in Taylorsville when Ricardo Portillo issued him a yellow card for pushing an opposing forward trying to score a goal. In soccer, a yellow card is given as a warning to a player for an egregious violation of the rules. Two yellow cards lead to a red card and expulsion from the game.

The teenager, quite a bit heavier than Portillo, began arguing with the referee, then unleashed a punch to his face. Portillo seemed fine at first, then asked to be held because he felt dizzy. He sat down and started vomiting blood, triggering his friend to call an ambulance.

When police arrived around noon, the teenager was gone and Portillo was laying on the ground in the fetal position. Through translators, Portillo told EMTs that his face and back hurt and he felt nauseous. He had no visible injuries and remained conscious. He was considered to be in fair condition when they took him to the Intermountain Medical Center.

But when Portillo arrived to the hospital, he slipped into a coma with swelling in his brain. Johana Portillo called detectives to let them know his condition had worsened.

That's when detectives intensified their search for the goalie. By Saturday evening, the teenager's father agreed to bring him down to speak with police.

Portillo's family said he had been attacked before, and Johanna Portillo said she and her sisters begged their father to stop refereeing because of the risk from angry players, but he continued because he loved soccer.

"It was his passion," she said. "We could not tell him no."