FAKE BOMB FOUND; BOY, 14, BLAMED.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer PALMDALE - A fake bomb found Thursday in a Palmdale High School div style="float:right; margin: 0 0 1em 2em; width: 20em; text-align: right; font-size: 0.86em; font-family: lucida grande, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> '''Palmdale High School classroom led officials to evacuate e·vac·u·ate v. 1. To empty or remove the contents of. 2. To excrete or discharge waste matter, especially of the bowels. the school administration building. The fake bomb - a palm-size cylindrical cyl·in·dri·cal adj. Of, relating to, or having the shape of a cylinder, especially of a circular cylinder. object wrapped in black tape, with wires sticking out Adj. 1. sticking out - extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; "the jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses"; "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck" its sides and a watch face attached - proved to be a prank by a 14-year-old freshman, who faces suspension and possible expulsion, officials said. ``All along, nobody really thought it was anything (dangerous), but we're not experts,'' Principal Mike Vierra said after Sheriff's Department explosive experts pronounced the device a hoax Hoax Balloon Hoax, The news story in 1844, reporting the transatlantic crossing of a balloon with eight passengers. [Am. Lit.: The Balloon Hoax in Poe] Piltdown man missing link turned out to be orangutan. [Br. Hist. . An instructional aide found the object in a classroom just before lunch and brought it to the school office. After examining it, the campus deputy called an arson-explosives team. Staff members were evacuated e·vac·u·ate v. e·vac·u·at·ed, e·vac·u·at·ing, e·vac·u·ates v.tr. 1. a. To empty or remove the contents of. b. To create a vacuum in. 2. from the administration building and students milling around the campus at lunchtime were directed back to their classrooms. When the arson-explosives team arrived, it determined that the object did not contain any explosives. A 14-year-old student believed to have left the fake bomb in the classroom was taken into custody, then given a citation and released to his parents, officials said. His name was not released because of his age. School officials said the punishment for a student bringing a weapon or explosive device - or a replica - on campus is suspension pending an expulsion hearing. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Palmdale High workers wait while bomb experts inside examine what turned out to be a fake bomb. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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