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Has anyone seen this story?

This schoolgirl is facing expulsion and possible criminal charges? For having a sense of adventure and curiosity, and for doing an experiment that I'm sure I probably did as a kid, too? Aluminium and sodium hypochlorite, releasing hydrogen gas?

The United States of America is finished. All intelligence has been flushed down the khazi, cretinism is the norm. Unbelievable.

Of course she was treated terribly - she's black in Florida, a state that routinely denies the black population even basic human rights (e.g. voting).

Simply because it is the same country (USA), this has reminded me of the documentary I saw last night called "12-year-old Lifer", about children aged 12 who were convicted of murder in the USA and are serving adult sentences.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/12-y ... -lifer/4od

This is nothing new, just another example of idiocy. School children doing things like dropping litter in the playground are charged with a crime in the USA. Sad really.

Aged 13 I once received lines and had to write

I must not do unauthorised experiments in the chemistry laboratory

100 times.

Aged 13+ I was awarded my D.Phil. in Chemical Physics for a thesis entitled

"Monte Carlo Simulation of Cluster Ion Fragmentation Peak Shapes"

A custodial sentence for the initial offence may well have been appropriate and taught me a valuable lesson.

Clearly some countries are more developing than we were led to believe.

Paul McKeown wrote:The United States of America is finished. All intelligence has been flushed down the khazi, cretinism is the norm. Unbelievable.

The USA is authoritarian in a way that even the Third Reich wasn't. And the authority is exercised by cretins with IQs the wrong side of 90. I need to get back to civilisation.