Remember one month ago Italian police seized an extremely dangerous pla letter opener and a teenager’s printer?

They’re back

First they seized “a factory” of PLA knuckles: https://www.ildolomiti.it/cronaca/2026/un-15enne-e-un-13enne-producevano-tirapugni-con-le-stampanti-3d-della-scuola-hanno-anche-minacciato-un-compagno-che-voleva-denunciarli (a 13 years old kid printed multiple copies with the school’s printer)

Now they went to the home of another middle schooler to seize his printer because he printed a prop from assassin’s Creed: https://www.rainews.it/tgr/bolzano/articoli/2026/02/lame-stampate-in-3d-sequestrate-in-una-scuola-di-bolzano-eb67732d-a7a1-4eac-842b-a0bf7a87e937.html

I feel much safer now that those factories of dangerous weapons are now seized

  • shads@lemy.lolEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Well yes, but also no. I went to school with a bunch of dumb asses who used metalwork classes to make “throwing stars”, and half of them haven’t been to prison yet.

    I had an electronics teacher help me make “tripwires” to play a prank on a friend at school camp that would set off an airhorn once tripped, it was only after I finished he thought to mention “Don’t use these to trigger anything else, and don’t put the airhorn inside the tent with him.”

    Teenagers and sometimes the engineers who fall in to teaching them can be astoundingly dumb and work the challenge rather than think of the consequences.