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Teens Arrested for Breaking Into High School With a Homemade Plasma Cannon

Authorities called the makeshift cannon a “powerful explosive.”

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Reality has officially crossed over into comic book-style science fiction now that a pair of 18-year-olds in Greensboro, North Carolina, are facing a long list of criminal charges after police say they used a homemade plasma cannon to break into a high school, pulling off a crime that sounds like it belongs in the pages of a Spider-Man comic.

According to court records reported by WFMY News 2 and FOX8, Solomon Caravello-Bell and Chayce Harricharan were arrested after police responded to a burglary at Smith High School around 2 a.m. on July 5. The cops allege that the pair, along with a juvenile who was later released to a parent, used what the court described as a “homemade plasma cannon” or a “powerful explosive” to burn a bush, melt a hole through a plexiglass entrance door, and gain entrance to the school.

What the authorities defined as a “plasma cannon” is up for debate, as they didn’t seem to go into detail. The very first link on a cursory Google search brings up an instruction guide from Indestructible.com that teaches you how to build a “Giant Double........

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