Remember show and tell? I always brought in my cat. He’d
bite and claw everyone but me. I felt special that my cat hated everyone but me
(and still does). An eleven year old in Australia decided to bring in a grenade
to her morning class and show it off. It had no firing pin, so the girl figured
it was inactive or a fake for practice. The teacher, shocked by her item,
brought it to the principal of the catholic school and the principal called the
bomb squad, which evacuated the school and took the grenade in for examination.
I can’t find any articles that say wither or not it was real, so I’m going to
assume it was just a practice grenade. The girl, whose name hasn’t been
released, is reported to be “bewildered and embarrassed.”
I’d hope she’s embarrassed. She brought a grenade to show
and tell. If you did that in the U.S, even if you were eleven, you’d be
expelled, even if you were at a private school. Then the cops would be told, and
you’d have a record and a lot of counseling. I think it’s pretty cool that
she’s getting off with just a pat on the back. She just brought it to show the
class. It’s not like she’s a crazy kid who wanted to blow up the school. She
just wanted to bring in something unique and cool, and she doesn’t deserve to
be punished like she would be here. It was a misunderstanding. Here, you can’t
bring in a squirt gun without being screamed at. I hope she can look back at
this and laugh.
Just out of curiosity though, why did the bomb squad
evacuate the school? Why didn’t they just take the grenade out of the school
and let everyone go about their class? Wouldn’t that be easier? Fun fact about
grenades: the explosion doesn’t kill, the shrapnel does. That’s why grenades
have an array of boxes on the outsides, so that when the gunpowder goes off,
the metal will separate easier to be flung out and around to hit people. These
arrays are similar to pineapples, so grenades are often referred to as “Word
war two pineapples.” Now, you can buy grenades at army surplus stores. Of
course they’ve been drilled into and had all the gun powder drained out, but
its still a fun thing to scare your friends with!
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