Girl takes grenade to school, kids flee

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22426471-1702,00.html

From correspondents in Bethune, France

September 16, 2007 06:54am

A SCHOOL in northern France was evacuated yesterday after a nine-year-old girl took a World War II handgrenade to show to the class.

Her teacher had asked students to bring an unusual object to school, according to deputy police chief Vincent Roberti.

The girl obliged, pulling a grenade her brother had found out of her bag.

The teacher "immediately reacted, putting the weapon in a plastic bag, taking it to the courtyard and warning the school principal,'' Mr Roberti said.

Police, firefighters and bomb-disposal experts arrived on the scene while the 191-student school was evacuated.

Mr Roberti said the grenade did not explode when the pin was finally removed.

[Systematic Chaos]

1. Yes, but did they take her to Circuit City with OJ Simpson and taser her?

:evilgrin:

[Bongo Prophet]

6. Don't detonate on me Bro-J...

That must have been a strong plastic bag.

[HuffleClaw]

2. "when the pin was finally removed" ???!!!

hahahaahhhahaahahahhaaaaa

[Richard Steele]

3. Les morans. nm

[poverlay]

4. That's a great story! LOve it! n/t

[Sequoia]

5. If it had happened here she'd be thrown in jail as a terrorist.

[Bongo Prophet]

9. But, the 2nd amendment! Authoritarians!

[AnnieBW]

7. There go those cowardly French again!

Running away from a little ol' hand grenade! If it was an American kid that brought in the grenade, the teacher would have pulled the pin with her teeth and thrown it at a bunch of high-schoolers smoking pot behind the bleachers!

[mudesi]

8. That's why everyone ought to have a grenade

:sarcasm:

[MissB]

10. A plastic bag?

[malaise]

11. She lucky she lives in France

very lucky

[Solly Mack]

12. show and tell becomes show, tell, and run