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More police busts in Italy (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Wispy2891@lemmy.world to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world
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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

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 2 days ago

I mean, if kids bring or make weapons at school, what would you expect to happen?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

the knuckles article mentions "white weapons". is that a term of art in italian that i'm too not-italian-speaking to know?

[–] MolochAlter@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yes, it's the literal translation of our term for bladed melee weapons.

[–] Jocarnail@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

To add to this, it is the general term for all non-firearms: so it covers also bludgeons and anything else you swing by hand.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Man how fucking dumb are some of these kids...fucking printing knuckles on school printers!? (These will still break a jaw easily if used, and are illegal to even own in many places) Threatening another kid for reporting them for doing shit they're not allowed to!?

JFC...

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

13 yo? If they're anything like me that age, pretty fucking dumb.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 2 days ago

I used to make wooden swords when I was even younger than that, and I sanded them until they were sharp. My grandpa would find and snap them.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Actually making weapons, plastic or not, on school equipment is a whole other level of stupidity well beyond regular 13yo idiocy.

[–] shads@lemy.lol 7 points 3 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.

[–] tyrant@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How do they know about these prints?

[–] phaseshift@lemmy.zip 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

First article says a peer reported them after being threatened

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That is refreshingly non-fascist

[–] sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

yeah its just old school snitch bitch action

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There's nothing wrong with snitching if someone is unduly threatening you.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The article actually said the kid was threatened because wanted to snitch

[–] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Still wrong to threaten them. I don't know about the Italian context but elsewhere there's been lots LF news about kids killing or maiming people

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Of course. But seizing 3D printers will do absolutely nothing to help with that.

[–] nullroot@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago

Do Italian police have ridiculously over inflated budget and need to make it look like they're doing something? Because this really doesn't seem like a situation that needed police intervention.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

The article writes as the two kids were printing the toys using the school 3d printer, a third saw what they were doing and wanted to report them, at that point they threatened him

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

How long until woods is banned from high schools because you can manufacture yourself some premium wooden knuckles

[–] dRLY@lemmy.ml 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Wait until they find out what can be done with socks and some rocks inside them.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

or a ready-made sack of Valencia Oranges.

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Or a bag of nickels

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

I roll the nickles!

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

I usually don't put my rocks in my socks to get my rocks off (ತ◞౪◟ತ‵)

[–] MolochAlter@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Bold of you to assume that Italian highschools have a shop class, the 3D printer is probably part of the computer lab.

Source: am Italian.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 7 points 4 days ago

Sir! Put that piece of wood down and nobody gets hurt!