High School Student Uses GameBoy to Create Fake Bomb

[sagacious]

Sounds like he has attention issues. I'd investigate his homelife situation if I were the police before tossing his lonely ass in jail.

 

[Arothel]

Is it wrong that while reading this all I could think was, "What a smart kid!"

How, precisely, was this smart?

 

[PunchClockVillain]

...The young man, identified as 18-year-old Lars O'Mara, constructed the "bomb" using a cell phone, an old GameBoy, and some protruding wires, which he then taped under the sink. A student alerted school officials...

Honestly my first thought would have been "Sweet! Free Gameboy" and I would have taken it.

 

[Riobux]

He needs to get some better friends obviously. At least ones who aren't concerning narcissistic or religious.

 

[Beastialman]

Spoiler

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Bomb planted.

 

[Jumplion]

You know what scares me?

That if someone in my school did that, they most likely would get more popular.

*Sigh* I hate my class/generation...

 

[Logic 0]

This is why we shouldn't let kids watch mcgauver because this might happen.

 

[Eggsnham]

Haha wow.

Oh, Florida, you silly goose.

 

[Tom Phoenix]

What a waste of a perfectly good Gameboy. =/

 

[Starke]

Well, unless he gets extremely lucky, this kid has just signed his life away. He's not going to have a job worth a damn, 'cause oh look, felony. He won't be allowed to get on a plane, because oh look, bomb manufacturer (even if it was fake). Buy a house or a car? Nope... Just so many little things that make up a persons life that will be closed off, or made terribly difficult to access if he gets a felony conviction on this. And for what? Shits and giggles in highschool? I'm all for school pranks, but this is on my top ten list of things you never do. As in absolutely, never should have even entered ones mind. If you want to be popular, go spread grass killer on the football field so it looks like a giant penis, or toilet paper the entire school. This, though... you just don't do that.

Also, good luck leaving the country. Getting into any college, honestly that could screw up getting student loans and forget about scholarships... he literally cannot vote.

Also, note that there's a good chance he's now on all the terrorist watch lists, which will fuck things up even more. For example, if the police decide to harass him, they could, theoretically hold him without invoking habeas corpus (yeah the patriot act was a train wreck).

He is lucky in one regard, he can't be used for medical experimentation against his will, used to be felons could be co-opted into drug trials or the like, without compensation, or the option to say no.

 

[Idlemessiah]

Does this make me a bad person?

I immediately connected the word bomb and the kid's Irish sounding surname =/

Irish or not that kid is pretty thick to think fake acts of terrorism induce popularity.

 

[Starke]

Is it wrong that while reading this all I could think was, "What a smart kid!"

How, precisely, was this smart?

I sensed sarcasm in his post. Anybody's guess if I'm right or not.

 

[The Seldom Seen Kid]

I'm pretty sure every girl in school would date him is he had actually blown up the school.
After all, it's school.
My first reaction when seeing my school on fire would simply be to douse the fire with gasoline.
But I digress.

Also,
[small] "someone set us up the bomb!" [/small]
It had to be said.

 

[jmd102993]

I remember there was a bomb scare near my school, and someone set fire to a bathroom in my school, how the hell does this make you more popular?

 

[ShadowsofHope]

Don't let al'Queda see this! Nintendo won't be safe from them either!

.. On a more serious note, what an idiot.

 

[ENKC]

And this was going to improve his popularity how? Nonsense like this and Columbine is why we need mental health services to be on the ball and teachers to be referring students.

 

[Lalalarzi]

Well, unless he gets extremely lucky, this kid has just signed his life away. He's not going to have a job worth a damn, 'cause oh look, felony. He won't be allowed to get on a plane, because oh look, bomb manufacturer (even if it was fake). Buy a house or a car? Nope... Just so many little things that make up a persons life that will be closed off, or made terribly difficult to access if he gets a felony conviction on this. And for what? Shits and giggles in highschool? I'm all for school pranks, but this is on my top ten list of things you never do. As in absolutely, never should have even entered ones mind. If you want to be popular, go spread grass killer on the football field so it looks like a giant penis, or toilet paper the entire school. This, though... you just don't do that.

Hey, we'd like to welcome you to Atlantic flight flights except oh, what's this? You stuck a gameboy with some wires tacked to it under your desk in high school!? Get out of my sight!

Only in America. I'm assuming......

Totally sounds like something MacGyver would do when he got bored in hs maths.

 

[The Austin]

What a fucking idiot.

"Hey guys! I made a fake bomb and caused a school wide evacuation! LOVE ME!"