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Ken Dumm Inner circle 1241 Posts 
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Just have to get this off my chest. My son's grade school was set a blaze last night by a suspected arsonist. A couple of months ago, the same window was broken and gasoline was poured into the classroom, but a fire was never started. Apparently the same person came back and was successful last night. Why on earth would anyone do this? It's a grade school for academically gifted kids as well as special needs kids. It happened in the middle of the night, so no one was hurt, but with the smoke damage, the entire school will be shut down for quite some time. Sometimes, I just don't get this world....
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Lyndel Inner circle wrote the theme to the TV show COPS! 1623 Posts
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My guess based on 13 years experience as a police officer... It was a kid who attends the school and decided that he wanted a few days off. I also predict that he will brag about it to someone and will be arrested within one week.
Let me know if my prediction is accurate! By the way, when I worked at the cop shop, another officer and I were sitting in our patrol cars shooting the breeze at about three in the morning in a school parking lot. In the dead quite of night time, sound travels! I heard the distinct sound of glass breaking and immediately knew someone had broken a glass around the corner at the school where we were parked. Long story short, the sound had been made by one of the kids who attended the school by throwing a molotov cocktail through the office window! Since we were on scene so fast and able to summon the fire department so quickly, the building was saved from what would have been certain total destruction! Oh the kid that did it got away that night escaping into the darkness, but bragged to a buddy who flipped on him the next day! Lyndel  |
RS1963 Inner circle 2734 Posts
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The 100 percent correct answer is this. The person who did it is a compleate idiot. Pure and simple he/she has never amounted to anything and NEVER WELL!!!
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Justin Style Inner circle 2010 Posts
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On 2008-02-18 15:26, Lyndel wrote: Hey Lyndel, I didn't know you were on the job?! Cool. I think they could use you here in the city. Last night the midtown south was broken into. All the toilets were stolen. They need help, so far they have nothing to go on! ...hey now! |
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Ken Dumm Inner circle 1241 Posts
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It's a grade school, 12 years old and younger. So if it was a student, they were out in the middle of the night.
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts
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On 2008-02-18 15:05, Ken Dumm wrote: It is was a serial arsonist (a repeat offender, not a one-timer), the nature of the building probably did not much matter to them. In that case, better an empty school than a densely populated bar or apartment complex.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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Lyndel Inner circle wrote the theme to the TV show COPS! 1623 Posts
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On 2008-02-18 16:09, Ken Dumm wrote: So was the one I mentioned in my post above... I think the perp was 12. Justin, Not on the job anymore. Thank God! By the way, that joke is to cops like the joke, "Hey, can you make my wife dissappear!?" is to magicians 
But thanks for trying! 
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Ken Dumm Inner circle 1241 Posts
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Lyndel,
If he/she was that young, I think the parents shoulder some the responsibility. Ken |
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rossmacrae Inner circle Arlington, Virginia 2477 Posts
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Arsonists don't make much ordinary sense. If you felt a compulsion to set a fire, wouldn't you want (a) minimal chance of being caught by someone in the area, (2) minimal chance of killing an occupant, and (3) the same guarantee as anywhere else that you'd get to see the pretty fire trucks?
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thorndyke Regular user Canada 147 Posts
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Whatever the motive, the problem of antisocial behaviour isn't as simplistic to deal with as we hope it could be.
I always ask why when we've arrested someone, and other than the usual (expletive deleted) you, at most we get a shrug of the shoulders and some sort of mumbled 'Id'nnoman...' Oh if only the parents could be nailed for what some of these little ess oh bees do. |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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The forces of ignorance and poverty sometimes take direct action. At least this incident of school violence was directed at the building and not the students.
It's getting scary to even think about school. I would not call doing violence at a school successful - perhaps misguided at best - lots of less kindly language is what I'd prefer to type. I hope the community rebuilds the school quickly and the students take this as a sign that they need to make the most of every day they have there.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts
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My sister lives in rural PA. A few years back, the son of the local fire chief was arrested for arson.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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Lyndel Inner circle wrote the theme to the TV show COPS! 1623 Posts
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On 2008-02-18 18:17, Jonathan Townsend wrote: Amen Jonathan! Now that is a wonderful way to see the glass half FULL in this day and age! Lyndel |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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On 2008-02-18 15:26, Lyndel wrote: I'm with you. Cui bono?!
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts
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Sonny and Cher had a second kid?
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airship Inner circle In my day, I have driven 1594 Posts
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Lots of boys are fascinated by fire. I was one of them. Thank God that back in my day we had fireworks, rockets, and chemistry sets! That pretty much took care of satisfying my interest in pyro-stuff. (Unfortunately, kids today don't have much access to such things.)
And thank God, too, for church and the Boy Scouts, which along with involved parents taught me early on how to tell right from wrong. I was the classic 'loner who kept to himself'. Lord knows how I would have turned out without those things in my life.
'The central secret of conjuring is a manipulation of interest.' - Henry Hay
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts
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Here in Carson City (I'm about 40 miles out but it is my 'here') about four months ago a nine year old who was facinated with fire got killed in a fire he started in a building....he started it around midnight after he snuck out.
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Ken Dumm Inner circle 1241 Posts
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Well, an arrest has been made.....
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artic......03010337 I hoping they have the right guy. My family is sleeping a bit better tonight... Ken |
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Lyndel Inner circle wrote the theme to the TV show COPS! 1623 Posts
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On 2008-03-01 13:25, Ken Dumm wrote: I stand corrected... One never can accurately predict the occassional pyromaniac vs. a criminal mischief minded student! Lyndel |
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