No charges for teens. Intention to blow up turtles.

[Catherine Vincent]

Bomb targeted for turtle injures Kingwood teen

By Ryan Rockett | May 5, 2013 | Updated: May 5, 2013 5:22pm

A Kingwood teen was injured late Saturday when a homemade bomb detonated, leaving him with severe injuries.

Two males, ages 18 and 19, took small homemade bombs to a bayou on the 3100 block of Valley Rim around 7:40 p.m. Saturday with the intent to blow up turtles, police said.

The unidentified 19-year-old lit a cigar, which police believe produced ash that ignited a cartridge in the teen's pocket.

Police did not elaborate on the composition of the bombs, but said neither teen was arrested and no charges have been filed.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Bomb-targeted-for-turtle-injures-Kingwood-teen-4490091.php

[madinmaryland]

1. What the fuck??? FEAR THE TURTLE!!!!

[canonfodder]

11. Made me laugh

For some reason, that just tickled me.

[dballance]

2. Great, So a Girl Accidentally Blows Up Her Science Experiment and Gets Felony Charges, but these...

two bright bulbs intentionally make a bomb to blow up wildlife and they walk.

Some days I just don't think there's hope for the human race.

[Suich]

3. I was just thinking the exact same thing.

Makes no sense...

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. She is a girl

Doing science while black. Hate to be this cynical

[Heather MC]

5. Yep, not cynical

Don't apologize for recognizing racism and pointing it out.

[RKP5637]

7. It's wrong I tell you! No girl needs science! And especially not 'them!'

[treestar]

9. +1

Different state and all, but geez. They could have done as much harm. Plus they have intent to kill an animal, which strikes me as worse than a mere explosion for its own sake.

[LeftInTX]

13. It's cuz it happened in school

Zero tolerance.
Laws are different in schools.

My son was charged with a felony weapon for bringing a Chinese star to school. A Chinese star is a lot like a knife. If he was just walking around the street with a knife or Chinese star, I don't think he would have been arrested.
(The charges were dropped)

ETA: I think these teens should have been charged.

[dballance]

6. Why isn't the ATF involved?

Aren't ALL bombs and bomb making illegal? Not just the ones that kill innocent people when they actually blow up?

[onestepforward]

12. From what I can gather

on my local message board, it was apparently some type of firework, thus no charges.

[dballance]

14. The brief article was skimpy on details.

Thanks for the additional info.

[onestepforward]

16. You're welcome!

Several people have chimed in stating that it was not his intention to blow up the turtles, but he was on the "turtle bridge." They are saying that he's really a good kid that did something stupid.

Here's a 2 min. news video if anyone is interested. It also shows the turtles from the bridge. Luckily, they were not hurt:

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=9090770

[dballance]

17. Well, I guess the word "bomb" in the title drives more traffic

Drives more traffic to their site which means higher ad revenue. They're taking a page out of the NY Post school of journalism.

[treestar]

8. They should be

And that is indicative of possible psychopathology.

[HarveyDarkey]

10. The important thing that wasn't mentioned...

Did he remove himself from the gene pool?

[eppur_se_muova]

15. Sure to be presidentin' for the Repugs some day. nt

[LisaL]

18. Well now he knows how the turtule would have felt.