Autistic / Aspie teen loses both hands in bully attack.

[catsnknots]

Ipswich teen loses both hands after thrown a homemade bomb

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/ipswich-teen-loses-both-hands-after-thrown-a-homemade-bomb/stor...

This is heartbreaking... what kind of kids are we raising when they think it is ok to make practical jokes like this.. I bet the young victim isn't laughing at this joke... 

These kids that did this attack need to be taken out the back of a police station and given a good old fashioned hiding before going to jail for a very very very long time... And their parents need to be forced to pay compensation to this young man forever... X-(

[catsnknots]

"He has just come out surgery and he has related he was sitting around the table with a few boys and some young boy ... who has always been a bully to him has thrown some sort of golf ball explosive  device at him and it has exploded.

The story has been updated... 

he was not a friend but like so many kids on the outer they just want to be accepted and be included. He knew the bully... 

[punch*drunk]

But I'm going to go out on a limb and say I wonder if the fact that the boy is autistic is just a coincidence.

I have heard that the young victim has always wanted to be friends with these kids but they have constantly bullied him...

apparently they "threw" the golf ball at him to catch and the gold ball exploded...

then the bullies ran off instead of staying and calling for help and assisting the victim.

Apparently a couple of the other kids are injured too. I think a lot more needs to be known before judgements are made. Preferably from someone indepenant rather than family members.

"All indications are that it's not deliberate," Inspector Keith McDonald told reporters.

[i-need-a-martini]

Cat - there are 4 boys in hospital with injuries from this incidence. It's just that the only ones to speak up are the relatives of the aspergers boy. And they don't even know the other boys in the group.

It could have been bullying. Who really knows.

But really, this could have been any group of boys that age cause they all know how to make these things using golf balls or pipes with a few packets of sparklers.

And yes you could ask your 15 year old if he would be that stupid and he would say "no mum". I just asked my own 14 year old and of course he said "I'm not that stupid." But I know that put him together with all his mates, it wouldn't take much for one of them to say "let's make a bomb!" and the rest of the group would get excited as all stink.

And if any of those mush for brains teenagers ends up in hospital with injuries I can bet that the first thing they would say as parents walked in the hospital door is "It wasn't my fault - they made me do it".

[katydidthat]

I'm not sure how much the details matter.  Some kid made a bomb, threw it at another kid who lost his hands.  

I told my nearly 16 year old son and he gave me a big hug because I was crying.  

[the_great_she_elephant]

Some friends and I tried to make gunpowder when we were about 12. Believe it or not we found the recipe in an ancient (1902) edition of the Boy's Own Paper. ( A bound set belonging to my Dad) we managed to procure the sulphur and saltpetre, but - fortunately, I guess - we couldn't get the charcoal, so we used soot from the chimney instead.

Anyway, we mixed upped our brew, packed it into a treacle tin, mad a hole in the lid and poked in a pyjama cord soaked in kero as a fuse.  We then lit the fuse and stood round it in a little circle (about 2 metres away) and waited to see what would happen. Luckily for us it only burnt merrily bout showed no signs of exploding.

Strangely, Dad didn't seem to share our disappointment  when we told him about it, and the old comics were put away well out of reach.

[everything*that*i*ever*wanted]

Horrible. My brother lost the top of his middle right hand finger and his thumb was hanging by sinew when he made a copper bunger in 1982. I can still hear his screaming and I still have flashbacks when I hear fireworks.

A girlfriend of mine lost her brother at his own Queensland wedding back in the early 80's. Fireworks at a wedding, one didn't detonate and some of the guys moved forward to see why...it went off. Schrapnel ricocheted...I won't detail his injury, but it was a head injury and he was killed horrifically in front of his entire family and friends.

I hate fireworks not in the control of professionals...and kids playing around with them are bloody idiots !

[polksaladallie]

The boy has said that he exchanged a cigarette for the bomb.

[cherples]

Apparently a couple of the other kids are injured too. I think a lot more needs to be known before judgements are made. Preferably from someone indepenant rather than family members.

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True. I was just thinking from the perspective of an outraged parent behind a keyboard  :^O

[polksaladallie]

I repeated what he said 28 minutes ago on television.

[i-need-a-martini]

The more that comes out, the more A Current Affairs-ish it sounds. Now it's gone from a bomb being thrown at a boy in a bullying incident to one where he was throwing it around himself.

Honestly it simply sounds like the boys were larking around with something that many teenage boys lark around with at that age, saying the kind of stupid things boys say.

This is worrying though: What I usually could do is make them snort it and then I don't snort it or whatever. Sounds like the kind of mischief these boys get up to on a regular basis. 😐