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#79972 by CraigMaxim
Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:22 pm
Some kid set off two pipe bombs at a California school today.

Teachers saw a kid running away after the blast.

He had started up a chainsaw, and had a sword with him.

He also had 8 more pipe bombs.

Kudos to the teacher's heroism in stopping this kid!

They probably saved some lives!

#79973 by philbymon
Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:24 pm
Someone ought to spank his parents

#79980 by Kramerguy
Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:23 pm
meh I wouldn't be so quick to blame the parents. I would however (considering it's Cali), be agreeable to spanking society as a whole for creating an environment where parents don't know what their kids are up to....

#79983 by gbheil
Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:42 pm
At 17 he is no longer a kid. He is an adult and a criminal.
I wonder, was the chain saw running?
No one in the media will give any detail. :?

They aught to spank the whole national school system for not allowing law abiding citizens to be armed, thereby creating a free kill zone for any nut job on the planet.

Let him try that stunt at the police station or local shooting range.

#79992 by 1collaborator
Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:57 pm
Ive got to say that my kids have givin me and a lot of others plenty to cry about over the years, but as for wanting to hurt someone else, they dont have it in them. I worry that kids today are missing a good ass whooping. Just like the ones I got when I got out of line. I know everyone diciplines theirs differently, but i bet we all agree theres a dicipline problem going on in California for sure.


And its another day in Paradise !!!

#79994 by gbheil
Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:00 pm
Man, thats dead on right.

I did my best to stay out of trouble (or at least not get caught) more out of fear of my old man than anything else.

#79999 by Black57
Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:38 pm
Ugh, I so agree with spanking these dam kids. Spank them before they become adults AND principals should have the b@lls to drag out the paddle. Now on a womans based site this conversation would go a totally different direction.

I live in California and this state is weird. Maybe its all the sunshine and rattlesnakes.

#80002 by Chippy
Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:04 pm
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#80011 by Black57
Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:19 pm
Chippy wrote:Was that on the news? I bet it was.
I'm glad that no one was hurt.


I have not heard about it yet, but I prefer to watch HGTV.

#80021 by Sir Jamsalot
Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:01 am
Hope the teachers didn't hurt the chainsaw massacre kid during that heroic tackle. Could be a lawsuit waiting to happen. :roll:

#80022 by Whitesel
Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:29 am
Wow, didn't hear that story...guess the national press only picks up stories if a Gun is involved. A guy can stab 10 people and it barely makes local news...but if he shoots 5 people with a gun it makes world news.
#80064 by CraigMaxim
Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:46 am
Police: 'Techno-wizard' suspect fooled family
Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/25/MNL719DH0L.DTL

The 17-year-old held in the pipe bomb attack on a San Mateo high school was a "techno-wizard" who told his family he was building model rockets as he assembled his explosive devices from material he bought over the Internet, authorities said Tuesday.

Angry with teachers who had given him bad grades at Hillsdale High School, where he dropped out more than a year ago, and smarting over how other students there had treated him, the youth began planning the attack months ago, said law enforcement sources briefed on the interrogation of the boy.

On Monday, he walked onto the campus with 10 pipe bombs strapped to his vest and toting a chain saw in a violin case and a "martial arts-style" sword with a 2-foot blade, authorities said. He set off two bombs before faculty members wrestled him to the ground. No one was injured.

'Cold-blooded plan'
"It was a cold-blooded plan of execution," San Mateo Police Chief Susan Manheimer said at a news conference Tuesday. The teenager's goal, she said, was to cause "mass casualties."

"He was interested in hurting and maiming many people," Manheimer said, to make up for "perceived wrongs."

Without elaborating, the chief added that the boy "did have intended targets ... on the faculty."

Sources have said they believe the youth planned to hack at Hillsdale students and teachers with the chain saw and sword if they were not killed by the bombs.

The chain saw, according to one source, was intended to "differentiate his attack" from other acts of school violence over the years.

The boy's name has not been released because prosecutors have not decided whether to charge him as an adult. He has been booked into juvenile hall on suspicion of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and explosives charges.

Mother 'in the dark'
Authorities said that in March, the teenager began making Internet purchases of chemicals needed to make the pipe bombs. He lives with his mother in a San Mateo apartment where authorities seized potential bomb-making materials and computer hard drives during a search late Monday, authorities said.

Officials believe his mother had not been aware of her son's alleged plans. "She was in the dark," one law enforcement source said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing.

Some of the materials the teenager obtained can legally be purchased only by an adult, authorities said. They said the boy had told family members he was making model rockets.

The law enforcement source described the boy as a "techno-wizard," an assessment echoed by his grandmother. Shirley Youshock said the boy was skilled on the computer and had earned straight A's in school.

Youshock called him a quiet boy and said she knew of nothing that would have prompted Monday's attack.

"I just think that his mind was somewhere else," Youshock said. "He wasn't thinking clearly. ... This is totally out of character.

"Obviously, something went very wrong."

The boy was enrolled in continuation courses, Youshock said. Authorities believe he was taking the classes over the Internet.

Youshock, 78, who lives in Sewell, N.J., said the boy's parents divorced seven years ago. The boy's father, Richard Youshock, lives in Santa Clara. The youth's mother, Carol, and an older sister live in the townhouse-style apartment in San Mateo.

Although investigators believe he was angry at Hillsdale teachers and students, Shirley Youshock said she knew of nothing that was gnawing at her grandson.

"There didn't seem to be anything bothering him," she said. "I'm at a loss, I really am."

The suspect's father declined to comment to The Chronicle on Monday, and efforts to reach his mother have been unsuccessful.

Father talked of college
"Every time we ever talked to (Richard Youshock), he never said there were any problems with (his son)," Shirley Youshock said. In fact, when she spoke to her son about two weeks before, they talked about the boy going to college, Youshock said.

"He is well-behaved," she said. "I never heard a problem about him at all. He was just a very quiet boy. When we were out there, he was just so polite."

Youshock said she spoke to her son early Tuesday and did what she could to comfort him.

"I'm just so sorry that something like this had to happen," she said. "I'm just thankful that nobody got hurt. ... God was looking out for everybody."

#80178 by gbheil
Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:01 pm
Texas has sunshine and rattle snakes. I assure you that bullshirt did not originate here.

#80183 by philbymon
Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:21 pm
What kind of chain saw fits into a violin case? Doesn't sound quite right to me...

#80230 by Chippy
Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:29 am
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