Game Boy bomb student arrested

According to a recent report on HoustonChronicle.com, a Livingston Junior High School student was taken into police custody yesterday after he showed up at school with a homemade Game Boy bomb. According to the police, the student, whose name cannot be released because of his age, hollowed out a Game Boy and filled it with gunpowder.

The Polk County school was evacuated briefly on Thursday afternoon after another student heard the boy bragging about his invention and called Crime Stoppers. The boy, who was eventually arrested on a school bus headed to a track meet, could now be charged with carrying a prohibited weapon into a school zone, a second-degree felony.