6 Colorado High Schoolers Tried To Set Their School On Fire To Extend Spring Break
11 years ago

6 Colorado High Schoolers Tried To Set Their School On Fire To Extend Spring Break

Illiterate teachers, future GDI poster children, and eight-hour days are just a few of the reasons high school is the bane of every teenager’s existence. There is plenty to hate, and hatred is one of a high school student’s most prolific emotions. Due to the exceptional monotony those four years provide us all, every break from school is highly sought and generally wasted.

Six Colorado high school students are in a bit of a pickle after they attempted to set their school ablaze using Molotov cocktails. Their reasoning? Spring break was too short.

From Daily Camera:

According to the police report, the six students — who were not identified because they are juveniles — went to the school on March 29 and filled bottles with gasoline to create Molotov cocktails, then ignited them before throwing them into the school through the broken windows.

The students told police they tried to set the school on fire to extend their spring break for a couple of days, and that they checked the parking lot to make sure nobody was in the building at the time.

The obvious amateurs failed to extend their vacation, yet succeeded in thoroughly ruining themselves in the process. It’s a real lose-lose situation if you ask me. When police arrived at the scene following their attempted arson, they found a plethora of items used in the incident, presumably coated in their finger prints.

Police found two broken windows and another window with smoke damage at the south entrance to the school, as well as two large rocks, a baseball bat, a lighter, a broken glass bottle and a charred cloth outside the windows.

Somehow, the imbeciles were spared for the time being and were suspended from school for ten days as an investigation is conducted. The police department even selected not to press charges and instead shipped the little bastards to a restorative justice program in the district attorney’s office.

According to reports, the pitiful attempt damaged the school to a tune of $1,500. A classic case of a horrible idea followed by an even worse execution.

[via Daily Camera]

Image via Fairview High School

  3. TM3K

    This was just posted on Norris Lake Reviews. I go to UT and have friends that hang @ Norris Lake. The houses were trashed by the renters.

    I just wanted to take a minute to THANK YOU for something you may not even realize you’ve done. We were in **** all last weekend with kids for a basketball tourney. While at a game, ***** received a text with a picture of MANY College kids partying on our dock. We try so hard to screen WHO rents our house but sometimes it’s impossible when parents lie for their teenage children. I think we may have to result in asking for them to send us a copy of their ID….anyway. We sent our house manager over there as well as called the police. Apparently the kids left our dock and went somewhere else. Upon having a gal check the house over, it was TRASHED, as you can imagine….broken window, broken door, broken door frame, among other things. It then became a pain in the ass for *****, who is already swamped, to spend hours on the phone from 5 hours away getting Stanley Steamer in there (cuz we had renters coming in this week) as well as numerous other guys in there to give estimates on what it will cost to fix the damage. Damage is totaling around $3500.00 or more. My blood is BOILING as he is telling me this story last night….just livid!!! Then he proceeds to tell me that he received a phone call yesterday afternoon from like the Dean of Student Services (and don’t quote me as I could be totally wrong on the “title”) who said they had talked to you who gave them information. The guy from Miami was extremely nice and said they will be looking into the matter and WILL HOLD the boys responsible and ******* will get his $ back that he spends on getting everything replaced and fixed! It may take time but they will see that those boys are held responsible. SOOOOO, to make a long story short, I appreciate that we ALL have to have each other’s backs down there. We all have to look out for each others stuff and property! So THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT and thank you for being proactive. the university to see that this kind of action/behavior DOES not go unnoticed or without reprimand.

    11 years ago at 12:56 pm