KitsuneThunder
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Sorry for potato quality, taken from my classroom window.
There are three or four students in the homeroom that insist the kid was only joking and wouldn’t have actually done it. “It’s only a joke, until they do it,” to quote them. The problem is, when so many innocent lives are at stake, you can’t take chances. It’s really unfortunate that people choose to defend people who threaten to shoot up high schools, and those who decide to joke about it, and supposed ‘suicide pacts’ between him and another student. This is a serious problem. Please don’t treat it as a joke.
FP Edit: Please, anyone reading this, encourage people to do something about the danger/threat of school shootings.
Edit 2: News from my twin. The student who threatened to shoot it up reportedly has mental issues (“he’s a psychopath”), owns knives, and his family has guns. He threatened to shoot up the school because his girlfriend broke up with him. This WAS a serious concern. Many students used humour (in a proper way that doesn’t even indirectly imply they would shoot the school up) because they were all legitimately terrified.
JestPilot
Wow!!! That’s terrible. I’m wondering how he they caught him... Cops often use diversions as a tactic.
kidred2001
I'm a teacher. Kids have started to write threats on bathroom walls in order to take advantage of the evacuation plans and get out of school
KilljoyNE
Even out in Nebraska my old HS had 2 kids arrested and placed in jail just this week for a shooting plot. Had to cancel school for a day.
LivingCactus
That's why I downvote posts with school shooting memes. Kids don't take it seriously and are desensitized to it when it's everywhere.
terroritis
I was suspended from high school because my friends and I made a movie that had a gun in it. No threats of violence, just a gun present. 1/2
terroritis
This was in 2004. I'm not mad about it. You can never be too careful. A direct threat MUST be taken seriously. Hope he learns his lesson.
hnk416
Gosh maybe people posting threatening shit on Facebook should be taken more seriously. I know you're listening FBI, you lazy fucks.
GonadTheBeerBellyan
My local high school closed yesterday for the same reason
EchoJGolf
Akins?
DrFingerWeenie
Happened at two different schools this week in my area. Kids are assholes.
JugOfVoodoo
Was in high school in 1999. Someone wrote "Columbine Next Wednesday" on a bathroom wall. The school refused to close. Only about 80 kids ->
JugOfVoodoo
(including my sister & me) out of the 600+ students showed up. There was no shooting, and the principal bought everyone who came ice cream.
sirhcdraw143350
Just shows the amount of ignorance being parentaly bestowed upon children now. Not a clue as to right and wrong or consequences.
Beeseik
You hit the nail on the head, and you could say the same thing about pretty much 99% of society's problems.
thechelonianshelmet
I have to ask, how many really said it or are some being falsely accused, how many are using it as excuse to dodge school or escape bullying
swagcannon420
Makes sense. Kids in my day called in bomb threats to get the day off. If they got caught, theyd get arrested. I say fair. 1/2
swagcannon420
2/2 just play hooky like a normal highschool kid and "miss" the bus after your parents left for work.
webx9000
Dumb ass got what he deserved. I hope they press charges.
ohmyapplepie
I hope that instead of pressing charges and making things worse for him, they help the kid through whatever is going on with him.
webx9000
If the kid had serious issues and is depressed. But it sounds like he was just being an idiot. Thinking he was funny.
blitz717
midterms are coming up, so I'm sadly expecting to hear about university lockdowns in the coming weeks.
thegreatalan
Fucking hell. I don't need my midterms delayed. I want to just take them in goddamn peace. Fuck those asshats who are too dumb to study.
WhatShouldIUseForMyUsername
When i was in middle school, the highschool got bomb threats all the time but that fell out of fashion by the time i got there thankfully
guileful
Mine did too, but usually during midterms and finals.
dangerousDoc
As much as I understand being cautious I've been kicked out of a school because someone started a rumor that I did a gun threat.
SamaelTheVenomOfGod
How fucking stupid do you have to be to make that kind of threat "as a joke"? That's like pointing a toy gun at a US cop as a joke.
BabySharkEtc
"it's just a prank brooo!"
IndubitablyGullible
how the fuck are school shootings a laughing matter?
ohforf
Laughing can be a coping mechanism. Doesn't have to mean that one is trivializing what is laughed at.
killer10347
Ask the sociopath.
Beeseik
Everything is a laughing matter, but there is a time and a place. This was not the time or place.
ImHereToExplainTheJoke
Every time shit like this happens, it inspires copy cats, especially when the media starts making excuses for monsters. "He was troubled"-
ImHereToExplainTheJoke
"He was bullied", "he had mental health issues". NO SHIT CNN, MOST OF US ARE TROUBLED, WERE BULLIED AND/OR HAVE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, BUT-
ImHereToExplainTheJoke
MOST OF US DON'T GO SHOOTING PEOPLE. Maybe instead of glorifying the fucker who did it, we should hide his face and name. Make him obscure.
Aceituna
I'd love for them only to be described as "some limp-dicked asshole"
Beeseik
Exactly, he may have been bullied, but he should not be held in the public eye as anything more than a deranged fool.
ErwinFletcher
Ummm, that's a seriously dumbass "joke"
redloki55
I think it pays off for those pulling it though. They get the appropriate reaction even if just a 'cry wolf' situation.
Treblaine
That's because it isn't a joke. They are morons who think because they decide NOW they didn't mean it that makes it a joke.
killer10347
Yes, but you forget. Highschoolers are seriously dumbass people.
mikeatike
Well now that people finally take this shit seriously, it will be like natural selection.
ivebeenimgured
I remember in middle school there was a bomb threat on a bathroom stall. We gathered in the auditorium to discuss the joke.
nwall123
Mine did too. But it was in flint so they took it seriously and we evacuated and they brought in dogs and swat.
SassySeehorse
This happened in my middle school too. They threatened us with hand writing analysis. Made us all write on a piece of paper and turn it in
SomeonewhoknowsadognamedEVA
Same thing happened, I was pissed because I had to write some paragraph when it wasn't me who wrote the threat....
ivebeenimgured
Oh shit, they find the person?
SassySeehorse
We found out who did it somehow. Nothing really happened to the kid though, some after school sessions and a stern talking to
TheArkhamAsylumAccountsPayableClerk
Can't joke about that shit. He deserves the consequences.
Treblaine
Especially as almost all of these are not even the vaguest attempts at being funny, purely designed to intimidate but "I didn't mean it".
Y200
Someone took an airsoft pistol to my sister's school as a joke. He's facing felony charges as a middle schooler now.
thegreatalan
Good. Sometimes you need to make an example of people. Terror in proper doses is a helpful deterrent.
callmethelizardqueen
This literally ruins this kids future. Those charges actually don't disappear when you turn 18.
GoodGameYoungLad
I don't think giving a felony charge to a middle schooler will do much of anything except ruins that child's life...i say go thru the 1)
GoodGameYoungLad
Whole dog and pony show but don't actually give a kid a felony charge if he really had no intent on harming anyone
Fireguy97
Is this real? Kids all over are calling in bomb and shooting threats? This is how people die.
AmirGarib
Hello welcome back from your 40 year long coma. Kids have been doing this all the time. The number of joke threats is in the hundreds/week
Fireguy97
I don't have kids. I also don't live in the United States. From people, friends, and teachers that I've talked to in six cities in >>>
Fireguy97
<<< Canada this isn't a thing here. Why isn't the media reporting on this happening after school shootings?
Fireguy97
Yeah but doing it right after a mass school shooting? You'd think that they might ease off a little bit.
AmirGarib
I am sorry but why should they ease it off. they do it mostly to postpone exams and not everyone acts like he cares about school shootings
AmirGarib
Just like 60% of the americans who act like they care but change nothing to stop it.
shimmernshine
A caller once threatened to set fire to one of our isp's offices. Looked her up and she had a history of arson. Had my sup call their PD.
shimmernshine
That call sucked; she'd accidentally put the power cord for her TV into the equipment drop box along with a cable box she was returning.
shimmernshine
She was a former customer, refused to ID her account at first, demanded someone come out at 10pm on friday night and unlock the drop box.
shimmernshine
Our offices were closed until Tuesday for a long weekend, and she said 'if I set fire to the building, would someone show up?'
shimmernshine
I told her that the Fire Department and Police would probably show up. She said she was kidding.
RevengeOfThePotatomancer
Of course, everyone's always kidding when they realize what they just said.
QuaqueNocte
When I was in middle school a kid mentioned bringing a gun and shooting people. I told the administrative. Idc if he was joking, fuck that.
MyToesGotGluedToMyAsshole
Snitch
QuaqueNocte
MyToesGotGluedToMyAsshole
squiddna
That would have been my ass in ninth grade because I decided to be edgy with a writing prompt. Fortunately it was before all this.
QuaqueNocte
It wasn't even a writing prompt. He just started talking to me one day and mentioned bringing a gun 'cause he didn't like some kids.
mckenna310
Same, but it was a girl. Told a counselor and they brushed it off, saying she was just having a hard time adjusting to the new school...
notthedroidsyourelooking4
Same. Kid was a real fuck head. I wonder where that person is now. Probably prison. He was definitely unhinged.
BaaadGuyEviiilGuy
Seriously, how fucking stupid can kids be now to joke about that shit during the current state of affairs. Joke or not, they should be 1/
BaaadGuyEviiilGuy
..arrested on stupidity alone.
Zagashi
Attention seeking. It's messed up, but there are people who see that as their only way to have people pay attention to them.
QuaqueNocte
I don't even think he was joking 'cause he mentioned the kids bullying him but someone on here once chastised me for saying something.
NicNac225
In middle school a girl had a list of people she wanted to kill, I told, administrative lady laughed as I walked out.
SR3711
Her head would roll if something did happen.
AnAnarchoSyndicalistCommune
I found one such list, kid had left it on his desk b/c he was an idiot, I was on it twice (for telling him he was an idiot, I was not [1/2]
AnAnarchoSyndicalistCommune
a good kid). As far as I know there was no administrative action.
KitsuneThunder
You did the right thing. These matters should not be taken lightly.
CraftedLine
Happened in my middle school too, bomb threat. Kid was arrested and never came back.
KitsuneThunder
I say, good riddance. We don’t need people like that threatening schools. It’s not right.
RafterEH
Reading all these comments of schools closing for threats. I feel relieved. Nobody's dying and maybe some kids will get the help they need.
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callmethelizardqueen
He was reported. Police and FBI didn't think he was serious.
KitsuneThunder
It’s a lot better than what could’ve happened. It is indeed a relief people are doing something about it.
RafterEH
Yup. Sucks that threats are being made, but better than a shooting.
mercemay
I was in H.S. when Columbine happened. There were tons of threats after that. It saddens me that 19 yrs later this still a thing.
Ispentthelastfewyearsbuildingupanimmunitytoiocanepowder
Except now little fuckwads bent on gaining control over their authority will use it whenever they want to get a free day or two off school.
RafterEH
And subsequently punished, hopefully they will learn not to do shit like that, but as long as there are people, there will be bad people.
razmann
this is America! we don't help people, we lock them up and hope the problem goes away.
RafterEH
Yup. Unfortunately, solving this problem will require tax dollars, and nobody can agree on anything that requires government intervention.
RafterEH
To expand, nobody wants to part with their money and the government usually screws up when it comes to big changes.
BastardOperatorFromHell
Know what else might help? Media not glorifying it and presenting an avenue for instant fame & recognition.
RafterEH
Too late for that. Now kids see it as the norm and the ultimate way for their voice to be heard or get revenge for hurt feelings.
thatiswhyyoushoulddoityourself
Thing is, it's news. I guess they could get a law forbidding image and names of minors involved in big crimes though.
RafterEH
And then they will have trouble passing it due to freedom of speech.
RevengeOfThePotatomancer
Wasn't there a study showing media coverage of school shootings ends up causing more of them?
Durandal15
I dont remember the exact study but there was a film theory on the tide pod challenge that showed the same concept
RafterEH
It sucks, if that's the case then either sheltering kids from the media or completely revamping how they recieve that information would be-
RafterEH
Necessary. Perhaps if they are shown the news at school and given an exam to see how they react to it, then parents/teachers collaborate to
callmethelizardqueen
Most likely because they ignored the FL kid when he was reported and no other police force wants to be on the news defending why they
RightYouAreKen515
Yep! I'm in FL, & there have multiple lock downs and closings because of reported threats since the massacre.
callmethelizardqueen
Same in Az. Even a kid who tweeted violence to a school no where near him. School cancelled kid arrested.
callmethelizardqueen
ignored calls about a kid threatening violence at school.
SeriousPotato1
Damn America you fucked up
XplodingUnicornGlitter
Bomb threats were a thing when i was in highschool
Flipvan
Question is though, how many bombs actually went off in schools? It was never a threat taken that seriously because it didn’t happen.
AggresiveSquinter
I live here true that
Bethem909
https://youtu.be/fGjOsfV3ar8?t=5s
procurementUnicorn
this country so stoopid
L0GJ4M1
Been doing this for years, I remember bomb threats being a big thing in high school back in 1998
The502nd
Hell a few years ago my HS had 5 bomb threats in one week.
BradyHarkonen
The problem is snowballing. There are too many guns because of a 200 year old law. Everyone should just start wearing ballistic vests.
BoopBoopBeepBoop
Feel free to fuck off to another country. I recommend my home country, Venezuela. We don't have guns there.
BradyHarkonen
Well, I mean, I'm Canadian. I guess I'm just used to everyone being nice. We have guns but use them to share moose jerky.
BoopBoopBeepBoop
Then keep your dumbass opinions to yourself, leaf.
johnytwodicks
https://media.giphy.com/media/a9xhxAxaqOfQs/giphy.gif
nakashima97
Don’t think it’s the # of guns, just the ease of getting them in some states. Also, our mental health system is shit.
BradyHarkonen
Switzerland has guns but you have to be in the military, or reserve, or go through a lengthy screening. Also half as many per capita.
nakashima97
“Go through a lengthy screening.” Yup.
johnytwodicks
Yeah :/ those in power are spinning it as best they can right now. Video games are the current culprit for the shootings
legalimmigrant
True. I've heard Ghenghis Khan was a big crash bandicoot fan.
johnytwodicks
Stalin greatly enjoyed some diddy kong racing if some historical sources are to be believed
legalimmigrant
Hitler like COD, world at war. He was a camping bish though.
johnytwodicks
"Yeah guys, ill push with you" -hitler did not in fact push
SecondSince
Ah, one of the golden oldies!
nclu
That was the drive after Columbine in the late 90's
warriorofdiscord
DOOM, IIRC.
NicoleAndBuhbuhkins
And here I thought the shooters were the culprits of the shootings... or the ones who provided the guns even.
bcd051
Nah man, need guns to combat guns. Just like fat people need to eat more food to combat the food they eat.
johnytwodicks
Yup, but the NRA head is saying that if you advocate for that you hate freedom. That's a direct quote :/
nakashima97
Tons of studies out there prove violent video games don’t make people violent IRL. But the jury’s still out on the whole science thingy...
johnytwodicks
Yeah I've heard that, the video game industry doesn't bankroll republicans like the NRA so it's an easier punching bag.
Benjaminriker
You can't shoot up a school if you're to busy being addicted to video games.
Shruikan159
Better watch out. At this rate, my galactic Empire will rise soon
TheBurritoConfederacy
Can confirm. Never shot up a school.
BradyHarkonen
Exactly. Why would we want to destroy the future generations of gamers? Kids have time to play games. They buy the games, funding more games
Infekdeading
There have been 8 teens arrested in Virginia this week for the same exact thing.
mercythompson
Here in Utah we had a teacher with her concealed weapon shoot herself in the leg while in the bathroom. Yay Utah....FML!
Thesadghost
As of this reply, and as far as I know, 11 in Kentucky this week were arrested
Nineteenletterslong
Guess they're getting all that attention that they desperately crave from strangers in the police force.
Ihavewaytoomanyfavoritestosort
Good. Keep teaching them this shit won't be tolerated anymore.
questionableanswers
Where's police violence when you need it?
pea3ce
4 in Ohio
BrassXD
You see, this needs to be absolutely blown up. If schoolkids realise this is what happens, then they'll not do it. Probably
BrassXD
I just realised my abysmal word choice. Sorry.
DaytonFox
In plattsmouth nebraska they let them go back to there parents no setting in jail or a hold on them to keep them under supervision
Infekdeading
Had a parent meeting and told them charges will continue until it stops.
TheiSuck5
In PA there's been 1 school completely closed for 2 days. The kid threatened the middle school once they protected the high school
napoleonsghost
Good. Charge the little shits
711isAnInsideJob
7 in New Mexico since Wednesday night http://krqe.com/2018/02/22/7-students-arrested-for-making-school-threats-in-new-mexico/
carlythevanillamexican
A few in Michigan this week too
OptimisticDownvoteLover
They should make false threats of gun violence a crime... Is it already?
Infekdeading
Ya, these kids are facing 12 months or like 15 grand in fines. They are not joking here with them at all.
CometLaHal
jfc what is my state doing
AintNothinButAThing
Here in Texas too!
anonnona887
Make it 10, two HS near me had that problem, one of them has a school police so they arrested him before shit could go down. Apparently had
anonnona887
An air rifle in his trunk so eh, could've been for property damage or trying to shoot someone's eye out
Eowyneb
Where is this?? What hs?
anonnona887
Northern VA, Centreville and battlefield
anonnona887
Also 1 middle school in Norfolk but I think that's the one he was mentioning already
ucandcantunc
This is proof the problem is not guns...it’s the mental state of a large amount of people.
questionableanswers
no. it's mental issues AND easy access to guns. Without guns they are just wackos and cunts, with guns they're terrorists and massmurderers
DonnieDangles87
It's funny, the same people crying about gun violence are the same people who wantonly promote it in TV and movies rated pg-13 or below.
DonnieDangles87
There isn't easy access for anyone under 18 unless the guns aren't safely locked up at home.
Kaladrax
3 here in Tennessee last I checked
LurkurNoLongur
I think it's around 15 or so here in Oklahoma. So far at least.
Kaladrax
Jeezuz
Tannarias
Saw that on the local news site. Sometimes I really want to move. Then I realize there is nowhere safe from idiots.
ILikeCharmanderOk
Well there are many countries free from having to worry about schools getting shot up, but not everyone is mobile.
MeowMachine12
Had one in the town I currently live in in Wisconsin
Infekdeading
Hopefully the negative repercussions have an actual effect on anyone who is serious about it.
710FPS
It won't, but it will have an effect on pranksters and jokers. Which is good. Anything to cut down on copycat syndrome.
2401twitchy
question: are the repercussions severe enough to be taken seriously
Infekdeading
12 months and/or 50,000
2401twitchy
seems perfect to me, but can't help thinking of how the finance blow could hurt an innocent sibling, relative, etc.
thmowingguy
My local HS was closed today due to a shooting threat made late last night. I hope this isn't the next tide pod challenge
Flutterfinn
My school would get a threat every year at winter finals time. We'd get an extra week to study bc parents would pull their kids out early
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KarlOkladek
Lancaster PA?
LoveHavingRidiculouslyLongNames
High school in my area was on lock down due to threats today as well. =/
samxbuttonsx
I've heard of two school threats toward different schools relatively close by. I feel like all the Florida publicity has riled up copycats.
Smeenu
My kid's school had the same thing happen today. School didn't close but kid was arrested and P.O. task force stationed there all day.
OriginalWadjet
i have a local one that's been closed since wednesday because of threats
dpressedonion
A local middle school kid got arrested because he got dared to bring a loaded gun to school today
ralphusmcgee
Mine too
IjustChangedMyNameToProveAPoint
Talk to CNN, Fox, NBC, and all the other main stream "news" stations about not giving the shooters notoriety.
MicentennialBan
I hope it is... And I hope they have no hesitation about arresting the kids
Xiphodin
Two schools within 20 minutes of me closed for the same thing. This is getting out of hand.
historysember
Debuque?
TitsandAssonance
Starting in 2001 we had a lot of bomb threats, elementary to HS. Students realized it was a good way to get out of class for an hour or so..
Starrkprimera
Man when I was your age lol. Legit over 10 yrs ago. That was still happening. Some dumb fuck wants the day off. Generally.
buymebeer
York PA?
thmowingguy
Toledo ohio
thegreatninjaman
why are teenagers so fucking stupid?
Pootisborn
Their brains literally are not done growing yet.
thegreatninjaman
well they are dumb. hell, i was dumb and im probably not even done growing!
DesignNerd86
Maybe we shouldn't be making it such a big deal on news. There were kids that said they would commit suicide to be in a Logan Paul video
KarlOkladek
I don't doubt the news plays a role. Maybe even the desire to "troll". "Watch me piss off a few hundred million people, lawlz". Sickening
lineQueuer
Fuck, my little brother's high school cancelled a big assembly they were supposed to have because of a shooting threat yesterday.
FrodosMissingFinger
Dubuque?
ZebraSweet
dark but yeah
tgm333
If this is the new tide pod challenge, maybe constant closings of schools for suspected shooting will change some minds on guns ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
LukeRDavis
Santa Clarita Charter school, 15 year old detained just a couple days ago.
JustDontCare
I sorta do. Only so long as the schools can fine the perpetrators as well as forced community service. America is struggling.
Draek93
It already is. I'm away at college, but so far every school in my home county has been shut down at least once since the first of the year.
Moonattack100
In one of our middle schools, someone spray painted a hit list in the bathroom. They say it's being dealt with, it's not. This is just sad
Slasher2977
When I was in HS I would've killed for days off like that. Metaphorically speaking.
CptFloridaMan
This makes me furious, and the fact that I have to worry about my little brother going to highschool is insane..
SonOfAMia
Are you from Ohio by any chance because this just happened like 20 minutes from my house too!
thmowingguy
Yes Toledo
HaveYouSeenMyKitties
Highschool in the district i teach arrested a 14 year old last night for the exact same thing. Wtf is going on
dreamdrestroyer
Whoah, there was a threat on an SHS (which is the initials of my school), but turned out to be for another school
RLTmavrick
It is sadly kids like to take dumb shit and run with it
Elebez
You run with shit and someday it will hit you in the face.
chickenfeat
My old high school had a threat too yesterday in wisconsin.
DimensionMaster
I hope so, too. Otherwise they'd have to change and adjust laws to better protect children and innocents. Nobody wants that.
Metalhead97
would you happen to live in spokane? because there was a threat to a local HS here
thmowingguy
No ohio
Bethem909
I went to a school in the ghetto for little while when I was a kid and there were 4-5 bomb threat evacuations a week.
mringle858360
When I was in high school ten years ago someone made a fake threat at the school in the next town over so we had a ton of copy cats
Fireguy97
Yeah, In every school you seem to have some dumb fuck that thinks it's funny or trying to get attention for a copycat incident.
TacoPrime
My friend works at a highschool and yesterday someone called police and local news saying there was a shooter so they could go home early.
violetdemure
Kids like the social media hype, it's so they can be famous. Wish criminals in news are unnamed, just a number to be forgotten.
Muhfynmann2
You don’t happen to be from Harriman or Oliver Springs Tn do you?
thmowingguy
Ohio
SanKa13
Swatting is also idiotic as fuck. Some poor kid on twitch got swatted just for fun
KarlOkladek
What's that?
textilelover
Someone will find the person's address and call in a hostage situation at that address. SWAT shows up. Someone died in one incident.
KarlOkladek
Wow. I've never heard of that, and part of me wishes I never had. That's horrible
textilelover
It is waaaay beyond messed up. I have no idea why someone would think it was ok.
WetGooseFarts
I remember in my high school bomb threats were the thing to do.
cosonfused
So I know this is going to be controversial as shit, and I fully know that things like this can only lead to worser things, but let them 1/?
cosonfused
do things like that. If they think making bomb/shooting threats is "funny", then ltet them face the repercussions. Throw them out of 2/?
cosonfused
school, have them pay for it. Shame them. Let's see how "funny" it is when everybody will shun their stupid asses for pulling that shit.
KarlOkladek
I hear you, but I think that idea works best when the kid fails his "mission" so to speak.
CrazyCatLad
Went to HS 2004-2008 (omg.) and we had bomb threats at least once a year. A few lockdowns but no incidents.
Aingelproject667
Why can't the latest fad be something like punching nazis or something? Why is it always something so self-destructive?
LivingCactus
All the surrounding schools around my little sister's school (3) were closed due to bomb threats last night.
swagcannon420
Back in my day, kids called in bomb threats to get the day off school.
FUNKAPUS
I think we should be basically running smear campaigns on school shooters. Like "they have a tiny weiner" in the news every day
bellapadella
America, you have a problem
doggosandcats
We know :( our system is fucked. Help.
waitwasthatreal
It’s always happened. Back in high school, 7-10 years ago we were locked down for 2 bomb threats, one person shooting a shotgun outside, >>
waitwasthatreal
And a group of kids saying there where gunna come murder a student, and when they showed up, had a gun, knives, and bars in the car.
waitwasthatreal
Bats*
Gav294
New challenge, eat a school shooter
KitsuneThunder
One can hope.
TheOne11111
I think the reason there is so many school shootings is because they got the idea off the 1st sick fuck who thought "how do I make these
TheOne11111
people hurt" and he got a gun and shot up the school, the rest realized how easy it was, and it helped people over the edge.
LenoreO
Tide pod challenge made it difficult for teens to get tide pods. If this is the new thing maybe gun laws will be tightened as a result
maxwellstorm
unfortunately from what I heard is in fact turning into that
IGoByMeme
Yep, my school got a threat two days ago.
Dalsethel
Just got a threat last night. Nothing's happened yet, but the tension is so thick you would need a cleaner to cut it.
Dalsethel
*cleaver dammit.
MrPepper
We'll be handing out felonies like candy. Can't help stupid.
mallywanders
A girl at a local hs threatened to shoot her school over snapchat. Other teens reported her to the police, who then tracked her down and
thmowingguy
Thats what happened here. You in ohio?
mallywanders
Nope. Utah.
mallywanders
Interrogated her and her parents, found out it was an empty threat bc she had no access to guns, and set up extra security at the hs today
mallywanders
To make sure ppl feel safe.
bomboy23
In my day it was the same thing but bomb threats. There was actually someone going around leaving pipe bombs
curmudgeon91
You talking about the flashlight guy?
bomboy23
One school made it mandatory that people use clear bags for backpacks for a while
KitsuneThunder
Oh my god. I entered High School just at the end of that kind of trend
TotallyNotADogInTrenchCoat
Went to high school just as they started implementing that. Then again.. Inner city Chicago was "fun"
KarlOkladek
It's just a coincidence your name is bomboy right? Lol
KarlOkladek
About 10-15 years ago bomb threats seemed to be the trend. It got you out of school and could be made anonymously. Several threats a year
lyricallove
In 2003/4 our school was evacuated for a bomb threat. I was in 8th grade. Thanks 9/11?
HoCroBro
We had mountain lion threats because sometimes a mountain lion would come onto campus
curmudgeon91
Same, and coyotes and rattlesnakes. Just sit in class til they left or animal control relocated them.
amyrose
2001-2002, after 9/11, we had 15 over two weeks. Spent hours sitting on buses at the football stadium each time.
KarlOkladek
That's when it all kicked off. I was in middle school, my brother in hs. Sooo many threats
Ifyoucandodgeawrenchyoucandodgeaball
I highly recommend the movie "Bang Bang you're dead", it was in retaliation to bomb threats in school
fireeternal
Yeah i remember that... and i live in Argentina.
jasgstock
There were lots in the 70s as well.
medicpepper
Someone called one in on their personal cellphone to get out of a test. Super funny when the police redialed the number after clearing
Sauroctonus
A few decades ago there used to be IRA bomb threats. These kind of things come and go unfortunately.
IKnowTheGuacIsExtra
Holy shit yes I remember this. We kept getting dozens of bomb threats. Police had to stay on campus, we had search dogs, staff was pissed
WhoWatchesTheWatchersWatcher
Probably six bomb threats when I was in high school. The one called during a blizzard? Fuck youuuuuuu
ButteryButtsButterflyCups
yep. we had no school a few times because of fake bomb threats. one kid was dumb though and he got caught and expelled over it
MondayFortunato
High schooler in mid to late 2000s, can confirm we had these issues
Fluffycorn
If someone had told me that in the 2000s, I would probably be shocked .. but this just seams like typical USA now ... damn
MondayFortunato
It’s shocking to you that I went to high school then? Or are you saying America has poor sewing and stitching skills?
KarlOkladek
Same time frame as me lol
LoveHavingRidiculouslyLongNames
I remember kids doing that on a weekly basis at my school.
BJA007
Grad from 2006. We had a threat once or twice a week. Was nice because no classes until we had to sit outside in the rain when it was 35 deg
mayorofpenistown
So my middle school was on a US Navy base. People made yearly bomb threats there in the early 2000’s. I had friends that spent time in juvey
ohnonotthisagain
Military don’t f around with that crap. You learn real quick!
Juicytoast
One of my "friends" was expelled in the last 2 months of his senior year because he wrote "bomb 1:30pm" in the bathroom.
NowuseamoredifferentS
We had something like that when I was in high school, some dumb girl thought it would be funny to write "bomb at 3pm" on a sign in the 1/2
NowuseamoredifferentS
Hallway, right in front of a camera. She was expelled and her friend with her suspended
Peptido
How did they figure out who wrote it?
Juicytoast
Cameras in the hallways leading to the bathroom. I mean, he also bragged about it, so that didn't help.
Peptido
Damn, I didn't even consider cameras, none of my schools had them.
Juicytoast
But we only ever had 2 bomb threats my entire time in school, both of them we never left the school, they held us in the gym.
Ihavewaytoomanyfavoritestosort
... in the gym where you'd all be blown up.
disappointedunicorn
I know right? Didn't they see Heathers?
ThatTwerkingWhoreFromOliveGarden
And americans think it's weird that we think they are absolutely retarded
GoodGameYoungLad
We may be retarded but we're like the only thing stopping multiple countries from destroying the world so think about that for a moment
Juicytoast
No we know full well that we're retarded, but we just don't like when other point it out. For example, I'm fat. I make a jokes about me.....
Schokiba
Only 2? I live in germany we never had anything. no bombs no guns. But hey. stricter gunlaws are not the way to go
altrdgenetics
well bombs are illegal in the US for everyone, so not related at all to gun laws.
Fluffycorn
DecapitatedJizzWizard
Germany isnt a prime example of how to prevent mass murders....