lmao ":o"

In my current school now, where I'm staying one year as an exchange student, we've had several bomb alarms over the past few months and they're increasing in frequency, though a bomb was never actually found and everything was just a prank.
It gets really annoying when you miss exams and have to write them in the afternoon then, but it's also frightening, you never know if it's going to be real or not..
They suspect it's either someone of the 13th grade (last year) or an outsider.

SX, my high school got at least three of these. Calm down. It's just some emo kid. The terrorists aren't involved, and nobody is going to blow up Atlanta.

Also, "terroristic"? Please stop raping the English language.

Hey, that's just what the Science teacher told me. @ terroristic

And have they all ended in a felony charge? If it was "just some emo kid" why was the DHS, FBI, etc, involved?

And what are you talking about @ nobody is going to blow up Atlanta

I'm leaving this thread because people don't know what emo is.

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Also, "terroristic"? Please stop raping the English language.

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Worse offenses occur here daily.

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Probably not ONLY because the person doesn't get caught. If you are caught making a bomb threat--even as a joke--it is a felony crime. Columbine started that trend of making that a felony and I think just about every state now makes false or real threats felony crimes. A "real plot" will get you in more trouble soley due to additional offenses than a "joke plot."

Ah, it's too cold here right now. The bomb threats in this school start in March (February if we have a warm winter) around here and go until June. 99% of the people don't get caught so it keeps happening. ;p

Bomb threats? Three? Several alarms in the past few months?

o.o

Is this stuff actually common enough in America that bomb threats are expected to happen?

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What means emo please you explain?

Thisis the first semiserious bomb threat I've ever actually been in the school of, but yes, this isn't extremely rare.

My Catholic HS had a bomb threat my Senior year (2005). First one in school history. Seems one of my classmates thought it would be funny if he had a buddy at another school call in a bomb threat... I knew who the kid was... Stupid dumbass idea.

Bomb threats in the US are not taken lightly. Anytime a threat is made, the FBI gets involved immediately. Like TR said, it's a felony.

Unfortunatly for the kids who made the threat at my old HS, they added the statement ""Scootering" Catholics"... Thus making it a hate crime.

And have they all ended in a felony charge?
Probably.

If it was "just some emo kid" why was the DHS, FBI, etc, involved?
Because those people have to take this kind of thing seriously, on the slim chance that it might actually be real. Also parents would go apeshit if they found out it was being handled with anything less than the utmost seriousness.

And what are you talking about @ nobody is going to blow up Atlanta
http://p072.ezboard.com/fsonichqcommunityfrm21.showMessageRange?topicID=711.topic&index=93

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Bomb threats? Three? Several alarms in the past few months?

o.o

Is this stuff actually common enough in America that bomb threats are expected to happen?

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Hmm.. actually I'm in Greece now. Athens to be precise. n.n"
The school here seems to be pretty targeted, I heard that during the last year there were a few bomb threats as well, but not as many as this year! (though there was never an actual bomb, just idiots calling, a student was expulsed from school as a result)
A teacher told us that maybe it is a security agency thing that is trying to make the school hire their services by making the school feel like it needs them. (Hope that was coherent enough to make sense.) They had recieved a proposal to hire their services for student security before, but the school refused.
Of course this is just a theory though.

This happened 14 times in my district 2 years ago.

Because those people have to take this kind of thing seriously, on the slim chance that it might actually be real. Also parents would go apeshit if they found out it was being handled with anything less than the utmost seriousness.

My response in a nutshell.

And what are you talking about @ nobody is going to blow up Atlanta
http://p072.ezboard.com/fsonichqcommunityfrm21.showMessageRange?topicID=711.topic&index=93

Damn, you still think I regard ATlanta as like, a huge high-priority target for foreign terrorists *Who obviously go to my school.* even though I said like ten times in that thread that I don't? Jesus, why are you linking something about nuclear threats in this anyway? Are you THAT desperate to make yourself look like an @#%$?

If it was "just some emo kid" why was the DHS, FBI, etc, involved?
Because those people have to take this kind of thing seriously, on the slim chance that it might actually be real. Also parents would go apeshit if they found out it was being handled with anything less than the utmost seriousness.
I should have logged in Chat when I mentioned this.

Also; I aksed a few people that knew him. Almost-infailngly they all say they would not be suprised if he actually did make a bomb. "Just an emo kid," right.

Damn, you still think I regard ATlanta as like, a huge high-priority target for foreign terrorists *Who obviously go to my school.* even though I said like ten times in that thread that I don't? Jesus, why are you linking something about nuclear threats in this anyway? Are you THAT desperate to make yourself look like an @#%$?
You spend an increasingly large amount of your time here worrying about bombs, nukes, terrorists, islamofascists, school shootings and other boogeymen. I guess I'm just tired of hearing about it.

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Yes, in my area of New York anyway. I was a senior in high school in 1999. We had 3 "prank" bomb threats (once a week) at my HS following Columbine in April 1999. Only the first prankster was caught, but it wasn't a felony at the time--though the person did get in some trouble for it. Watching the local news, it became obvious that "prank" bomb threats started to become the norm at certain times of the year--once it got warm and people didn't mind standing outside. Of course due to the fact that it's "routine" now, you're usually only outside for 10 minutes unless it really took the school administration off guard. It used to make the news, but now it doesn't because it happens at most (if not all) public high schools around here. I can't speak for the private schools since I don't know about all their "issues" as well as I do know the public school ones.

I'll challenge that people do it when its warm. In 6th grade somebody thoguht it was funny to have one when its 30 degrees out x.X

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I'll challenge that people do it when its warm. In 6th grade somebody thoguht it was funny to have one when its 30 degrees out x.X

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Somebody did that in 6th and 8th grade for my school.

Though it was -20 the first time, and in the single digits the latter attempt. =/

I froze.

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Maybe whoever does it where you are doesn't like you guys or likes the cold. The only time I've dealt with it when it was cold, the kid was ratted out by other kids and miraculously its never happened again unless it was warm & no one has been ratted out since. 🙂 Rarely is anyone caught unless a kid tips off the adults here. We did sorta figure out who it was for a string of them last March/April, but never caught the kid in the act so nothing happened in regards to the bomb threats. The kid was disciplined for other offenses though.

My only hope is that the stupid bomb threat kids (*stupid voice* Let's make bomb threats in the middle of winter/ towards the end of the school day) and the dumb morons who pull my dorm's fire alarm at 4:30am don't meet and decide to have children... Because if that happens, it will spell the end of life as we know it...

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good god. That is some amazing stuff. When I was in the army, a friend of a friend (one crazy guy) just called in a bomb threat because he was on duty and bored. End result - he went to jail. Detention barracks, to be precise I suspect if they'd just send these annoying kids to jail too the incidence of fake bomb threats would go way down ;o

Hiro, you haven't had it as bad as I have unless the fire alarm in your dorm went off _three_ nights in a row around 2am during *finals week*.

We had a couple in my grammar school. Got the lecture to the whole school the next day. Like anyone from school would call it in just before the lunch hour and not, for example, before first class on a Monday morning, or someone's maths or PE class. Spent two hours standing around in the cold without being able to go fetch lunch. I was not happy. I swore the next time it happened I'd sneak out and go home, but thankfully it didn't recur.

I was particularly liked how we were evacuated from the main building to stand by the Portakabin common rooms at the bottom of the school field - the ones that stood on concrete blocks with at least 2 feet clearance from the ground and which would, in fact, be the perfect place to conceal a bomb...

DW

At our school they went nuts over it. They put cameras outside tha bathrooms, made you sing in and otu of the bathrooms, and for the remainder of the year only had oen open, and only oen person could use them at the time. It got freakin' crazy.

You spend an increasingly large amount of your time here worrying about bombs, nukes, terrorists, islamofascists, school shootings and other boogeymen. I guess I'm just tired of hearing about it.
I do? First I've heard about this. Huh. If you're tired of hearing about my "increasingly large" amounts of worries that I'm going to be vaporized in a nuclear detonation (I literally, no sh*t, laughed out loud IRL while typing this.), maybe you should just click the little thing under my name that says "(Ignore Member)."

Just curious, is there any real reason why you're saying I'm increasingly worried about threats real and imagined? I made a thread that I said over and over again I didn't bleieve anything would happen, yet it was interesting, and I made a threat about bomb threats after one was made recently. Is that all?

And just to throw another one into the mix, this teacher has his own to add, fresh and everything.

Last week, for three straight days, we had a bomb threat called in to Jersey state police (forget the school) at the same time each day. Drove everyone crazy when it kept happening, and the superintendent has threatened adding on to the school year if it continues.

The lead conspiracy theory was that there was a student who was recently expelled for being arrested from an altercation with a local cop. After losing the appeal last week, he sought revenge this way. While it was not confirmed, police are now keeping an eagle eye on this kid, and so far, nothing since.

At the same time, all cell phones are now confiscated prior to and a list kept of all students who use the restrooms. This is to squash duplicators.

The whole thing is nuts, but I'm just glad it's over... for now.

good greif, i only ever saw one threat in my entire time at school and it was a hoax by some idiot phoning up the school.

in one of the residential blocks at university it was so common for the fire alarm to go off (nearly every night) that noone bothered to leave the building. really helpful for if there was ever a real fire!

I have experienced this phenomenon, Becca. The other night my court's fire alarm went off about four or five times in one night, mostly around 2-3am. Damn thing was malfunctioning.

it'd usually be drunken students returning home at 3am and thinking it hillarious to definately wake EVERYONE else up. fortunately this seems to happen less often after they threatened to kick people doing this out of halls.

the only fires we ever had back at school was once when the kitchens caught alight, and the three times kids set fire to the toilets. amasing how much smoke a burning toilet roll holder can send out. oo;;

...three times kids set fire to the toilets. amasing how much smoke a burning toilet roll holder can send out. oo;;

I started laughing like an idiot when i invisioned that XD

The idea of the threat being pulled several times over is exactly what you guys were saying. It starts to threaten upon Boy Who Cried Wolf Syndrome. It'll happen so much that no one will bat an eye, and sure enough, that's when the real bomb will take us all out. Many of my students agreed.

In addition, the fact that if it happens anymore, we're going to lose summer vacation day by day to make up for the lost time.

In a year when test scores mean the universe to our survival thanks to No Child Left Behind, it was really bothering me to know that thanks to this stupidity, my life as well as my job were on the line every day I walked into the school. *sigh*