So this teenager apparently got up to some pipe bomb-related mischief at a Bay Area high school yesterday, so the local news this morning is all over the story. Other than the fact that the lad seems to have shown up at his former high school armed with a chainsaw and sword (this kid's been playing too many video games!), the only thing that really lept out at me from the news reports was what this one woman said when she was interviewed by the news crew out at the apartment complex where the teenager lived (with or without his parents, I'm not sure).

At any rate, she basically said that, on finding out that the kid had been making highly unstable explosives in his room for the past year, she felt a great sense of relief that nothing had gone wrong. Her reasoning? "Because everyone around here has kids, and if there had been an explosion it could have been really bad for all the children."

So...if it was a complex full of childless adults, that would have been OK? Or if there had been an explosion, only the children would have been hurt, but the adults would have been fine?

Bah, I say!