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| Hypographer ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Burning schools Now this is really something. Last night some teenagers set fire to my oldest daughter's school. Luckily her school comprises several small buildings rather than just a large one, but the arts and crafts rooms went up in smoke. We don't yet know if the library survived, nor do we know the status of a play center where the younger kids (including my daughter) stay after school hours. Story in Norwegian with a pic and a video: Politiet mener skolebrann er påsatt The school is empty due to summer break but I just find it so incredibly *ignorant* to burn down schools...especially in your own neighborhood! I'm on vacation so I didn't see the fire, but my wife called me and told me there had been like 10 fire trucks plus police and ambulances etc... ---------------- Your Friendly Neighborhood AdministratorWant to sponsor Hypography? Buy a print in our Fall 2008 Benefit Sale Join our Facebook group or follow us on Twitter Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. - Carl Sagan | |
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| Student | Re: Burning schools Wow. That's really unbelievable. I don't understand why anyone would do this.... You'd have to be really crazy. Well, best of luck to your daughter. Give us some updates (Will the school be ready for next school year?) occasionally. ---------------- Moderator -- Chemistry, Biology, Watercooler, Competitions, Architecture. Join our Facebook group | |
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| Holy cow! | Re: Burning schools Sheesh... bloody idiots. Was it only partial, or destroyed? Do they know what their motives were? If it was to actually destroy the school, then that should be punished harshly. But then again, kids like to try new things, so if they only lit a cigarette (for instance - kids do tend to try out stuff) then it might have been a simple accident, a matter of 'boys will be boys', I guess. ---------------- Hypography Forums Moderator IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Bovinely blessed be thee. | |
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| Exhausted Gondolier | Re: Burning schools Boys will be boys, yeah, and sometimes they'll get up to some serious mischeive. Especially if they don't like going to school. Makes no sense to burn the building, unless they hope it will postpone the start of school... A few years back a couple of young vandals set fire to quite a few vehicles around town, including one in a private parking place at the ground floor of the condo I dwell in, between some columns and underneath one apartment which got fully roasted and soon would have caught fire for real. It wasn't a pleasant thing to wake up to at 4:00 AM. By the time the firemen were called and arrived, the next car was fully ablaze and the third was getting scorched; before they could get the first two completely extinguished we all had to pitch in and tug ropes to drag them out. A few streets away the boys were seen, with their canister of petrol, just after having lit a car, they were chased but not caught. ---------------- Who's afraid of the Big Black Hole????? Go Black Hole! W the Black Hole! ![]() ![]() ![]() Hasta que el agujero negro nos traga, siempre! Hypography Forum PITA...... er, Administrator. | |
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| Hypographer ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Burning schools Quote:
From what I have been able to gather so far, about 50-60% of the building (it's a one-story building) was completely ruined but I have no idea yet what the impact on the rest of it was. Quote:
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| ¿42? | Re: Burning schools I'd love to know how these boys feel about this 10 or 20 years from now when they have their own children to send to school... ---------------- Clay Editor and Forum Administrator stego anyone? Add yourself to Hypography's Frappr. "There are only 10 kinds of people in the world -- .....Those who understand binary, and those who don't." "Draw no conclusions before their time." | |
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| Exhausted Gondolier | Re: Burning schools Quote:
![]() Certainly there was the risk of someone in my condo, in the apartment right above the cars, getting smoked unconscious before waking up. Some got mildly hurt stampeding down the stairways, which woke me up, and the last of us came down holding our breath in the thick smoke. The other vehicles were out in the streets and at that time of night the risk of passers by getting hurt was low, people just called the fire dept. when they saw the blazes. ---------------- Who's afraid of the Big Black Hole????? Go Black Hole! W the Black Hole! ![]() ![]() ![]() Hasta que el agujero negro nos traga, siempre! Hypography Forum PITA...... er, Administrator. | ||
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| Resident Slayer | Re: Burning schools Quote:
Entitlement and a society that thinks "its own" are "more equal than others" will let you mentally survive a pile of bad karma...oh well... That's bulls*&%. You're a white suburban punk just like me, ![]() Buffy ---------------- "If you do not agree with anything I say, I'll not only retract it, but deny under oath that I ever said it!" __________________________________________________ ______________-- Tom Lehrer "The shrinks diagnosed me a sociopath with paranoid delusions. But they’re just out to get me cause I threatened to kill them." Forum Administrator Hypography Science Forums - Science for Boys and Girls! Its not for nothing that we hang out here. | ||
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| Hypographer ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Burning schools Quote:
Well how do you repo a school... ---------------- Your Friendly Neighborhood AdministratorWant to sponsor Hypography? Buy a print in our Fall 2008 Benefit Sale Join our Facebook group or follow us on Twitter Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. - Carl Sagan | ||
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| Resident Slayer | Re: Burning schools Thank goodness for the new morality: Quote:
![]() Buffy ---------------- "If you do not agree with anything I say, I'll not only retract it, but deny under oath that I ever said it!" __________________________________________________ ______________-- Tom Lehrer "The shrinks diagnosed me a sociopath with paranoid delusions. But they’re just out to get me cause I threatened to kill them." Forum Administrator Hypography Science Forums - Science for Boys and Girls! Its not for nothing that we hang out here. | ||
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