Remember that kid who was arrested March 3 after bringing a fake bomb to Huntington Beach High School?
The 16-year-old boy first tried to throw cops off by saying the device was a prop for a film he was shooting after school.
But a search of the juvenile's bedroom produced a cardboard box
labeled “weapons” with several fireworks inside, and a computer that had accessed online instruction on how to make a homemade explosive device, police say.
Well, cruising past the Orange County Register website earlier this morning, a headline at the top of the home page stated, “Police: Student With Fake Bomb Had German Flag.” A cruise past the same page an hour later showed the same story with a new headline: “Police: Student With Fake Bomb Had a Grenade.”
An hour now, will it read, “Police: Student With Fake Bomb Had a Peanut Butter and Anthrax-Yellowcake-IED sandwich?”
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Right now, the piece says the lad:
- Had a German flag and hat,
illegal fireworks, notebooks and papers with
references to bombs, firecrackers, a grenade, and a fire bomb; and a
stick grenade known as an “Inert German Potato Masher,” according to
the search warrant;
- Has been suspended pending an expulsion hearing. Huntington Beach High had been closed March 3 to deal with the alleged threat;
- Allegedly made threats and anti-Semitic remarks that prompted students to contact the Anti-Defamation League;
- Allegedly imitated the Joker from Batman and talked of World War II, according to what parents told the Register.
- Is being defended by his mother, who claims the real facts will set her son free.
An Inert German Potato Masher?
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.