On the afternoon of December 12, Seattle police officers were dispatched to my alma mater, Madison Middle School, where a “Molotov cocktail had been used to blow a hole into the floor of the school playground,” according to a police report. This playground is “built on top of the roof of one of the school’s buildings” and the Molotov cocktail “appears to have burned through the [cement] tiles, causing at least nine tiles to cave in.” Police found several pieces of glass from a large bottle in the area, as well as a bottle cap that smelled strongly of gasoline. Officers could not identify any information about a suspect, the report concludes.
Whodunnit? A Madison student? Some passerby who really, really needed to get a Molotov Cocktail off their hands?
(Also, there was no rooftop playground when I went there. No fair!)
I’m getting my B.S. in Forensic Science right now and my teacher says that 8 times out of 10 a school burning is done by a student. You burn what you know, apparently. If it wasn’t winter break, I would bet serious money whoever did it had a test the next day and was hoping school would be canceled.
Really, really old news.
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Sarah, dear, I realize that it’s a slow news day, but December 12th?!? Surely you can find something just a teensy-weensie bit more current to post about.
Found it looking through the police reports, which are processed later. Nothin real breaking goes on there,
wow, what was in this moltov cocktail to do that kind of damage? I thought typically they contained gasoline and oil but I don’t think that would have done this damage.. ?