Somebody set us up the bomb.

Shiat. I knew I forgot my bomb somewhere.

-Bashy35

What a pipe bomb might look like

Best show and tell ever if you ask me. I loved pipe bombs when I was a kid. Hell, what healthy, red blooded American kid doesn't?

"I was very worried and very scared when I heard that my son had gone out into the playground, saw something and lifted it up.
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Would any of you mind if I found this lady and punched her in the face, really hard?

Because wow.

"To target a primary school and to put innocent children at risk is plumbing new depths."

Snerk

It coulda been tasty/used to dispatch some Infected.

"I was very worried and very scared when I heard that my son had gone out into the playground, saw something and lifted it up."


LIF-ted up. Lif-TED up. Lifted UP. Sorry, but unless your talking about him doing it to a classmates skirt it just doesn't sound right to me.


"I was very worried and very scared when I heard that my son had gone out into the playground, saw something and picked it up."


There, that's better.

Ahuhuh. Pipe.

Captain Steroid: Worst thing I ever found on the playground was a used condom and a half-empty tube of KY Jelly behind the jungle gym. This kid just raised the bar.

They used to find used syringes all the time back at mine.

/why yes, Melbourne is full of junkies

This has to be a sign that the kind gods above and the good spirits among us protect little children.
If they didn't then none of us would ever live long enough to grow up.

Imagine being the teacher that the kid brought this thing to.

Just another normal day at work, taking care of all the precious young ones.
You know that you have to love each and every one of them just like one of your own.
Oh, what's this? One of my well behaved young students has something to show me.
"You found it on the play ground?" Why, perhaps a small frog or a birds egg.
"It's a pipe-bomb you say?"
...
"Why yes, it surely is."
...
You suddenly know that your life will be about 10 years shorter than had you previously hopped, and there is a god above.

jake3988: Would any of you mind if I found this lady and punched her in the face, really hard?

Because wow.

Taken like that, it's an incredibly stupid statement. But you know she was talking about picking up a suspicious object that resembled a homemade something-er-other.
Not that a kid would suspect anything in the first place.

I'm wondering if it was intentional, or if Louis just picked up a Molotov instead.

Those wacky Irish. Always killing people for this and that.

Jake 3988, this happened in Ireland. There was a very strong chance that this was an explosive device, designed to kill anyone who disturbed it.

Do try to keep up.

/where does Fark find these schmucks

/Perhaps add a UXO briefing to the school curriculum?

As this is the UK, the child was promptly sent to jail for picking up the bomb instead of calling the police first. He had tampered with evidence, and it would be a miscarriage of justice to ignore that fact.

Tillmaster: Jake 3988, this happened in Ireland. There was a very strong chance that this was an explosive device, designed to kill anyone who disturbed it.

Do try to keep up.

/where does Fark find these schmucks

He's probably never heard of the IRA.

I was thinking over the clever jokes about this, as I read TFA, and then it dawned on me that under the circumstances, what happened here is that most likely somebody deliberately put the bomb there to be picked up and detonated by a little kid.
Oddly, I'm having trouble thinking of anything clever and amusing to say.

8ace: tetsoushima: As this is the UK..

Yeah. Seeing as he is Brendan Shannon, 8, from St Comgall's Primary School he and his family might be placed on an MI5 watch list.

True? Only Farkers really know

Northern Ireland is part of the UK, right? Just want to make sure we're on the same page.

8ace: jso2897:
Oddly, I'm having trouble thinking of anything clever and amusing to say.

Not that odd.

You OK?

Fine, yeah - I just originally went into TFA thinking the kid had found some dumbass teenager's attempt at a homemade bomb, or a fake bomb or something. When it dawned on me that it was real, and put there most likely with the intent of getting a kid, my two or three wry witticisms I had prepared just seemed a little flat, somehow.
Sometimes, the shiat I see people doing - man, I just don't know.

I was just talking to my neighbor who teaches in a under resourced area last week. She mentioned one of the 'interesting' items a kid brought in: mom's dope pipe. So it was 'bombed' pipe.

"I was very worried and very scared when I heard that my son had gone out into the playground, saw something and lifted it up. I am trying not to think of what the consequences could have been."

Oh the humanity, he picked something up off the ground, OMG, our children have really lost their way. Who would imagine a child doing something without thinking of the consequences? What next? Hes going to start having dirty thoughts about girls?

Tillmaster
Jake 3988, this happened in Ireland. There was a very strong chance that this was an explosive device, designed to kill anyone who disturbed it
Do try to keep up.

/where does Fark find these schmucks


Are Irish kids born with a pipe-bomb radar detector 6th sense?

8ace: Gyrfalcon: The Brits do it the right way: They treat terrorists like the criminals they are, instead of like some kind of badass scary monsters.

Some think the Brits are the scary monsters. Some have reason to

Are these the same people who leave pip bombs in school playgrounds?

8ace 2010-09-07 12:30:33 AM

Gdalescrboz: "I was very worried and very scared when I heard that my son had gone out into the playground, saw something and lifted it up. I am trying not to think of what the consequences could have been."

Oh the humanity, he picked something up off the ground, OMG, our children have really lost their way. Who would imagine a child doing something without thinking of the consequences? What next? Hes going to start having dirty thoughts about girls?

And...you've also missed the point.

Or are you dense? It's hard to tell with you kids these days

So what is the point? That kids are acting like kids? Because i certainly got it