Game Boy, Phone Used in High School Bomb Scare
Not the best way to become popular with the authorities.
Portable gaming systems are great companions at school (not for use during class, but only during breaks, of course), but not when used to make a fake bomb.
18-year-old Lars O'Mara was arrested under felony charges after allegedly planting a fake bomb in the restroom of his highschool in Pensacola, Fla. The fake bomb was made from a cell phone attached to a Nintendo Game Boy and a few protruding wires.
The fake bomb was spotted by a fellow student, which then prompted a school evacuation that lasted over an hour. Following the evacuation, only about a quarter of students returned to school that same day.
O'Mara admitted that he made the device to gain popularity and to get people out of class.
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He'll be popular alright... as being the new meat in prison.
taco's?
idk this is just stupid to gain popularity? this is so much worse than pulling the fire alarm
great prank, it would be better if he did this in streets and get some video
What happened to the other 3 quarters of the students?
What happened to the other 3 quarters of the students?
well my guess is you can add up, parents taking their kids home, and students skipping the rest of the day...
/sigh
It took an hour to evacuate the school? That's way too long.
It took an hour to evacuate the school? That's way too long.
fail...
well my guess is you can add up, parents taking their kids home, and students skipping the rest of the day.../sigh
Nah, I think they just blew up.
fail indeed... the evacuation lasted an hour... at no point did it say it took an hour to get everyone out of the building.
Yeah real popular... now everyone who goes to that school will not be able to bring electonic gadgets or handheld game systems ot the school. Way to think things through idiot.
Nah, I think they just blew up.Don't they respawn? lol sorry bad joke.
Don't they respawn? lol sorry bad joke.
This is nuts. This kid did nothing wrong and its no different than the kids back in the 70's trowing the fire alarm. You got caught, had a talking to, maybe some after school detention and that was it. Now you have these fascist pigs saying this kid is a terrorist and is a felon? BS!
GEEZ! That's a heck of a way to get some attention - the wrong type.
This is nuts. This kid did nothing wrong and its no different than the kids back in the 70's trowing the fire alarm. You got caught, had a talking to, maybe some after school detention and that was it. Now you have these fascist pigs saying this kid is a terrorist and is a felon? BS!
Well, our government has an entire Department dedicated to bringing "attention" to scares like this one. The incidents need to be high profile to justify the continued power grabbing and undermining of Constitutional rights, so of COURSE they are going to blow things like this out of proportion just to justify their own existence.
Without "hate" and "fear" and "terrorists" people might not be so willing to give up their rights...
Cellphone...attached to a old gameboy... equals bomb?
fail.
well my guess is you can add up, parents taking their kids home, and students skipping the rest of the day.../sigh
I figured they all got blown up by a real bomb in the parking lot.
I don't get it. Why do people do this? If you want popularity, do a real stunt, not something that will earn you time in jail. That gets you the wrong type of popularity.
We know he will be popular to beat on when Gameboys get banned at schools across the country tomorrow.
We know he will be popular to beat on when Gameboys get banned at schools across the country tomorrow.
too bad they already are. along with everything form cellphones, to Walkmen. good thing by high school most of the teachers have given up trying to control it.
i had one of those old gameboys, they were the bomb!
He'll be popular alright... as being the new meat in prison.
He's going to be full of meat as well.
use gloves next time and dont brag that you did it... just brag that your the only one with video of it x]
i dont think the nintendo is big enough for the explosion to reach beyond the bathroom...