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He also famously engineered a bomb hoax in highschool, down to building a ticking device that was heroically disabled by, iirc, the school principal. Today, such behavior would easily end in terrorism charges.

It is all laughing a fun, until you meet people whose futures were destroyed for doing far less in regards to fake weapons in schools.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Mohamed_clock_incident

My son accidentally brought a knife to school at age 12 -- maybe a 4 inch blade. When he realized that he had a knife in his backpack, he told his teacher. He was suspended from school for about 3 days and we had a fairly pleasant conversation with the principal after the suspension.

I myself have been suspended for having a "weapon". The weapon in question was a bent paper clip. No I'm not kidding.

You probably remember when the cops would get called if you were caught with a cell phone or a pager at school.

When I was at university, one of my classmates was a cop. He was petrified because that day, due to schedule issues, he had all his cop stuff locked in the trunk of his personal car. At the time, having that sort of weaponry on campus was a big deal. He would have been better off comming to class in full uniform (the exception for cops would not apply if he wasnt on duty or at least in uniform.) He knew what might happen if someone discovered his handgun/taser/mace was on campus.

I remember back in elementary school the YW in my class brought a huge kitchen knife with him in his backpack. He showed it to me. Later that day, he slightly cut himself with it in the toilet over a broken heart or something like that. Next day he was back to school. We called him sleeping bag because he was wearing his pants so low

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