{"id":197295,"date":"2010-01-19T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5451518"},"modified":"2010-01-19T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T07:00:00","slug":"11-year-olds-science-project-causes-bomb-scare-school-evacuation-hilarity-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/197295","title":{"rendered":"11-Year-Old’s Science Project Causes Bomb Scare, School Evacuation, Hilarity [Wtf]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Proving once again that there are no qualifications needed to be a middle-school vice-principal besides being kind of a dick, a San Diego veepee called the bomb squad<\/a> to investigate an 11-year-old’s Gatorade-bottle-based science experiment. Stay classy, San Diego.<\/p>\n

Apparently the kid, who sounds like a bit of a prodigy, really, brought in a homemade motion detector made of empty Gatorade bottles and “some electronics.” Cool, right? Shows initiative, and it even recycles old bottles! This kid should be rewarded with a blue ribbon, or allowed to star in a remake of Real Genius<\/em>! But no.<\/p>\n

Instead, this alarmist puritan called the bomb squad to investigate and x-ray the kid’s science project<\/a>, evacuate the entire school, and search the kid’s home. When the project was found to not, in fact, be a Gatorade-bottle-based explosive, the a-hole vice-principal didn’t apologize, or resign, or laugh it off. No! He recommended that the student and his parents seek counseling<\/em>. For making a project that would totally stump me! And I’m twice his age! Outrageous, I say. Out. Rage. Ous. [SignOn San Diego<\/a> via Boing Boing<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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Proving once again that there are no qualifications needed to be a middle-school vice-principal besides being kind of a dick, a San Diego veepee called the bomb squad to investigate an 11-year-old’s Gatorade-bottle-based science experiment. Stay classy, San Diego. Apparently the kid, who sounds like a bit of a prodigy, really, brought in a homemade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1551,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}