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GliderGuider

(21,088 posts) Sun Jul 22, 2012, 01:37 AM Jul 2012

An unemployed grad student... [View all]

Where the hell does an unemployed milquetoast neuroscience grad student get the money for that all kit ($10 to @20 thousand) , the knowledge of how to booby-trap an apartment that well and the skill to do it on the first try, not to mention the motivation to do this - all without leaving the faintest trail of ill intention?

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An unemployed grad student... [View all] GliderGuider Jul 2012 OP

Highly competent grad students often get quite a bit of funding in their doctoral programs Posteritatis Jul 2012 #1

LOL.... mike_c Jul 2012 #4

That was my experience. All my grad student friends were about as poor as churchmice. nt GliderGuider Jul 2012 #6

we pay 25K greymattermom Jul 2012 #17

I got about 16 for mine Posteritatis Jul 2012 #22

I think this varies widely. JoePhilly Jul 2012 #28

Graduate teaching assistants generally are paid slave wages. kestrel91316 Jul 2012 #29

especially if pharmaceutical co's KT2000 Jul 2012 #37

maybe he sold his comic collection on ebay TeamPooka Jul 2012 #2

Um Reasonable_Argument Jul 2012 #3

You know this how, exactly? GliderGuider Jul 2012 #5

Because Reasonable_Argument Jul 2012 #7

And again, you know this how? GliderGuider Jul 2012 #8

Well Reasonable_Argument Jul 2012 #10

It's a fucking miracle I survived my early teens, somewhere I got hold of an old book on fireworks.. Fumesucker Jul 2012 #15

Anyone who has read Frank Zappa's autobiography knows how to do some of this stuff. slampoet Jul 2012 #27

All those kids in Vietnam were trained to set those boobytraps. GliderGuider Jul 2012 #38

You do know that someone can study one thing and know about other things, right? (nt) Posteritatis Jul 2012 #23

Yes. It's not just knowledge that's the issue, though. GliderGuider Jul 2012 #24

I think he probably found everything he needed to know on the internet. kestrel91316 Jul 2012 #30

Law enforcement is too busy with bigger priorities. Zalatix Jul 2012 #9

word TeamPooka Jul 2012 #11

dont blame them Corgigal Jul 2012 #21

He should have been red flagged. Zalatix Jul 2012 #31

$26000 NIH stipend? datasuspect Jul 2012 #12

Yup. GoCubsGo Jul 2012 #18

Don't his parents own the building? I doubt he was charged rent. Tuesday Afternoon Jul 2012 #13

Nearly EVERYONE can liquidate their lives and come up with 3k slampoet Jul 2012 #14

I think your prices are high for used stuff... But your point is good.. Fumesucker Jul 2012 #16

Yeah, I was assuming upper middle class and using more east coast prices. slampoet Jul 2012 #25

I's guess he paid for it all by COD.... safeinOhio Jul 2012 #19

He was not an unemployed graduate student. LisaL Jul 2012 #20

Every college student I've known in the past 20 years had at least one credit card arcane1 Jul 2012 #26

"University: CO shooting suspect had federal grant" PoliticAverse Jul 2012 #32

Watch this upcoming right-wing meme... regnaD kciN Jul 2012 #39

Something is strange about this whole thing. sofa king Jul 2012 #33

My question as well. GliderGuider Jul 2012 #36

Credit Cards. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #34

He had a Federal Grant malaise Jul 2012 #35