OMG! It's Not a Bomb!

I assume you saw this story, about the kid who scared his middle school with a non-bomb?

SAN DIEGO — Students were evacuated from Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School in the Chollas View neighborhood Friday afternoon after an 11-year-old student brought a personal science project that he had been making at home to school, authorities said.

Maurice Luque, spokesman for the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department, said the student had been making the device in his home garage. A vice principal saw the student showing it to other students at school about 11:40 a.m. Friday and was concerned that it might be harmful, and San Diego police were notified.

The school, which has about 440 students in grades 6 to 8 and emphasizes technology skills, was initially put on lockdown while authorities responded.

Luque said the project was made of an empty half-liter Gatorade bottle with some wires and other electrical components attached. There was no substance inside.

No bomb, turns out, it was an electronics project.

The kid was actually using his head.

He was making things.

Making things.

Christ, this story pisses me off and bums me out.

This story speaks to our national economic decline, while simultaneously pointing out our de-spine-ification.

The kid was even in a school where science and technology is pushed in the curriculum.

You would think that the teachers and staff would be used to seeing stuff that kids made, that has wires and lights and stuff.

That is what kids are supposed be doing right?

Figuring out how things work...

Becoming the future thinkers, makers and leaders of this country...

Right?

Ahh, hell...