Teen found with 20 bombs at school
 

This is some scary shit, Having my kids in school and thinking this shit could happen here argh#$%



MALCOLM, Nebraska (AP) -- A teenager was charged with attempted murder after police found him outside his school with 20 homemade bombs, a rifle and a note saying he wanted to injure everyone at his high school except for three friends.

Authorities believe they averted what could have been the worst school shooting since the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School.

Josh Magee, 17, was arrested Tuesday in the parking lot of Malcolm High School after a staff member saw him swigging liquor from a flask and putting on a black overcoat.

Police who searched Magee's car found a bolt-action rifle, several rounds of ammunition, small bottles of propane and rigged containers of a petroleum-based propellant.

"It had the potential of going badly," said Superintendent Gene Modernize. "With this student, at this school, on this particular day, we were successful. We got lucky."

Parents and school officials in this tiny town north of Lincoln said Magee often spoke about Columbine, where Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves.

"He asked them in class last week if they knew who Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were," said Julia Lostrah, whose daughter is Magee's classmate. "Then he said, `I know them."'

Second school incident within a week
The arrest came in the same week that authorities in another rural town in the heartland avoided a potentially violent school encounter.

Two second-grade boys and an 11-year-old schoolmate were arrested Wednesday in Forsyth, Montana, on charges that they buried a loaded handgun in a playground sandbox and plotted to shoot and stab a third-grade girl during recess. Authorities said the boys intended to harm the young girl because she had teased two of them.

No one answered the door Thursday at Magee's red-brick home just down the road from the school in Malcolm, a town so small that its downtown streets are unpaved.

School and law enforcement officials said his mother works as a chef in Lincoln, and his father is serving in Afghanistan in the military.

Magee, who has attended Malcolm schools since kindergarten, was always been on the district's radar, Neddenriep said.

"All the way through, he was just a little different," he said. "He liked to be alone, he didn't take part in many things. His enjoyment was weapons."

The superintendent said he wasn't aware of reports that Magee was a target of bullies. "There were never any incidents reported," he said.

When students began reporting to faculty that Magee bragged of making and testing explosives at home, Neddenriep said, the school paid close attention to the teen.

Magee then began showing some interest in school activities, he said.

Lostrah, who is also the school district's administrative assistant, said Magee joined the cross-country team and was an impressive musician.

"He was very talented," she said.

Magee was being held in a juvenile jail, but he was charged as an adult with attempted first-degree murder.

Neddenriep said the school of about 450 students will refine its safety policies in the wake of Magee's arrest.

"There's one thing I did learn," Neddenriep said. "It can happen anywhere
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That's it. We need to ban propane now. I'm sick of this bull shit.

and the government wants to concern themselves with gay marriage. pftt!

wholly shit...that is pretty scarry

No freaking kidding man, its scary as hell, WISH i was smart enough to keep my kids home and school them that away :(


Btw sly I am still working on what we talked about I can zip it up for you if you want now but have to wait till i get the linking codes for the new join pages before you can promote it

TOM

thats really fucked up

GOOD POINT :thumbsup damn good point, we have to worry about all the other countries but we can't even defend ourself against shit in our own backyards :(

TOM

everytime someone mentions propane I wanna watch King of the hill

charcoal for life

You wanna know whos fault it is. the internets if it wasnt for the internet he wouldnt of knew how to build those bombs. Alot of injuries and death happens just because of kids finding formulas from the net. And most of the formulas dont even work and they can injure you severly.

Oh please the internet?

Its his parents fault! Any lame ass moron can pop out kids and be proud to call themselves parents when in actuality they are IDIOTS!

There should be strict laws for parents of kids like that!

Well fine. Make it a crime to let children access the internet unattended. Ends the debate about kids and internet porn too.

:eek2

:thumbsup

Yea - ban the Internet. :thumbsup

No -wait - let me think that over first. :helpme

Maybe he thought they were hiding WMD's.

good thing he is 17 and not a minor

This world is going to self distruct in 5 years

Man, they really are getting more violent. For a while I thought other adults were full of shit. Now I guess they are right. Kids are getting more violent every generation.

mardigras and marina have excellent points.

the parents ARE to blame. dont sit there and tell me this is something that would be difficult for a parent to notice. saying that there "just isnt enough time" to take notice is pure and simple bullshit.

what should happen is in addition to arresting this kid, go find the fucking parents and arrest them for lack of parental authority.

then sign into law that any child who accesses the internet before the age of 13, the parent's get arrested and any child who accesses the internet from the ages of 13 to 18, unsupervised, (whether they commit a crime or not) the parents will be arrested.

pretty simple concept and it will make parents more aware of what their kid(s) is doing. i am so tired of hearing that parents dont have time to supervise their child(ren) properly between work and stress. if that's the case, DONT HAVE KIDS! if you can romp between the sheets and spit out a kid, then you better very well make time to bring it up properly. anything else is a lame, bullshit, let me off the hook, excuse.

No kidding :( it is sad too

TOM

you might be on to something

man that is some scary stuff.


sad

Where is the kid's father? Serving - what's the country's policy/ solution with people they don't get along with? They go bomb and shoot them - go to war. The kid is just doing what he's learned from history. Blame his parents? Yes, they could be blamed for not looking over him. The internet? What good is a recipe for a bomb if not to harm others (what other constructive learning could there possibly be for a homemade bomb? Oh and btw, for every North American teen learning this - there are many other frustrated terrorists/future terrorists learning it too) but he's just doing what he sees is being done on a larger scale. That's some food for thought.

I think it is sad that a child/teenager sees this as his only resort to resolving problems. Fucking pathetic. As for the idiots putting this stuff on the internet - I hope you blow up with one of your own recipes - as for the government, like someone else said - don't worry about gays/lesbians getting married, they aren't killing anyone, simply wanting a higher level of commitment for their love - since when is love detrimental to society??

You guys picked a real winner for government I tell you - you better be voting a better candidate this time!!!!!!

Damn nebraski's.

I didn't even hear about this. Maybe I need to start watching tv or listening to the radio.

It's hard to know all the facts, but I would suspect that these kids are not getting enough attention from their parents. It seems that so many people are looking for any attention even if it's good or bad attention, it's still attention. Parents need to spend more times involved in their children lives, which I know can be extremely difficult especially if it's a single parent trying to support them and their children. We don't know the details and facts, and therefore we can only assume. However, there must be a common denominator of why these young kids are going to great lengths. I would suspect that they are desperate for some approval and attention from their friends and family.

this world is nuts

That's very frightening

yeap i see that with my own kids, if i work too long for a couple of days and my kids start doing shit to get my attention then I go play with them and be with them for a few days and back to normal :( its hard very hard

TOM

Damn...

thats so fucked up!
everyone knwos their own kids, the parents should have seen something comming.

Holy shit!

thats scary