Granddaddy, definitely. Keeping a loaded, unlocked handgun in the house (to protect himself from terrorists, maybe?), that we may assume the kid wasn't supposed to know about? I grew up in a house full of guns. They were NEVER loaded, and all the kids knew where they were and how to handle them safely. Children with decent gun safety training (which includes always treating them as if they were loaded, and checking first thing to see if htey're loaded) would know better than to haul a loaded gun around, much less trade it to someone who presumably knew nothing about guns.
Um, did we read the same story? The one I read said Grandpa kept the gun in the top back of his closet, unloaded and the ammo was kept separately, and the door to the room was kept locked.
Eh, given the NATURE of this award, it still goes to grandpa for not reporting a stolen gun. No way i wouldn't report a missing gun stolen and FAST, 'fore somebody comes back to me looking for my whereabouts at such and such a time...
The kid was smart enough to know that grandpa's room had neat stuff, and smart enough to get in and find what he was going to find. Tho he might have been a dumbass for trading away too much too soon, that could be related to other disorders which have more bearing on darwin awards than dumbass awards. Dumbass quotient low here.
School system is highly dumbass, but it's a bureaucracy operating with mostly hearsay and they're trying to make an example. The kid obliviously needed some kind of clue-by-four, and it's possible some pencil pusher decided that his/her part in that clue-by-four was to suspend the kid. Wanna ding 'em, but I can't in clear conscience.
Friend of grandkid for telling mom about the trade..yea that's another one... but i suppose the kid might have had a flash of common sense and decided to confess before he was caught, as opposed to being busted in a brag...again, i don't know for sure, but can't accuse in clear conscience.
So lots of winners here, but grandpa did the biggest fukup IMHO
This is a toughy. My thought is that the school system kicking the little bugger out because he COULD have brought the gun to school is the most boneheaded play on the board.
When I was a kid, there were plenty of guns that I COULD have brought to school if I broke into a locked room and had a couple of hours to rummage around once I got there.
The grandad not reporting a stolen gun is, however, also "not good."
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Date: 2005-04-10 08:53 pm (UTC)the grandson broke into the house ... I put the grandfather up because he didnt report it stolen
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Date: 2005-04-11 12:05 am (UTC)i'm only not voting for the grandson in this instance because he was so enterprising.
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Date: 2005-04-11 02:33 am (UTC)The kid was smart enough to know that grandpa's room had neat stuff, and smart enough to get in and find what he was going to find. Tho he might have been a dumbass for trading away too much too soon, that could be related to other disorders which have more bearing on darwin awards than dumbass awards. Dumbass quotient low here.
School system is highly dumbass, but it's a bureaucracy operating with mostly hearsay and they're trying to make an example. The kid obliviously needed some kind of clue-by-four, and it's possible some pencil pusher decided that his/her part in that clue-by-four was to suspend the kid. Wanna ding 'em, but I can't in clear conscience.
Friend of grandkid for telling mom about the trade..yea that's another one... but i suppose the kid might have had a flash of common sense and decided to confess before he was caught, as opposed to being busted in a brag...again, i don't know for sure, but can't accuse in clear conscience.
So lots of winners here, but grandpa did the biggest fukup IMHO
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Date: 2005-04-12 02:58 am (UTC)When I was a kid, there were plenty of guns that I COULD have brought to school if I broke into a locked room and had a couple of hours to rummage around once I got there.
The grandad not reporting a stolen gun is, however, also "not good."