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Police Called Over 11-Year-Old's Science Project
garg0yle writes "Police in San Diego were called to investigate an 11-year-old's science project, consisting of 'a motion detector made out of an empty Gatorade bottle and some electronics,' after the vice-principal came to the conclusion that it was a bomb. Charges aren't being laid against the youth, but it's being recommended that he and his family 'get counseling.' Apparently, the student violated school policies — I'm assuming these are policies against having any kind of independent thought?"
From TFA: ... "There will be no (criminal) charges whatsoever," Luque said. ..." ... Students were evacuated from Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School in the Chollas View neighborhood Friday afternoon after an 11-year-old student ..."
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That's right. Criminal charges against an 11-year old.
As it turns out, California has no Minimum Age for Criminal Responsibility (MACR), so if they wanted to, they could have brought charges against the student.
People has to build gadgets on his normal lifes. Everyone sould be allowed. If some guy mistake it for a bomb, is his mistake, not the creator of the artifact. The kid sould not be in any way demoralized by this.
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Wow. You seem really emotional about this point. You should calm down, it's really not that big of a deal.
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That's a silly truism. NOBODY needs to win in order for us to lose, depending on your definition of loss. You may as well replace "terrorists" with "martians" or "pink unicorns". There's obviously a couple halfwits with mod-points kicking around, or you would never have gotten modded "insightful" for making such a pointless comment.