Always take threats seriously.  PSA.

Sep 20, 2017 10:49 PM

ThrowawayTwentySev7

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This morning a friend of mine received some texts from another friend about how he was going to shoot people in our school and kill himself. At first we thought he was joking but we went to the police and after a 2 hour search and lock down, he was taken into custody. He didn't hurt anyone but as you can tell was on a lot of drugs and armed. Having the courage to warn the authorities even if you aren't sure can save lives.

Canadian crime stoppers association:
http://www.canadiancrimestoppers.org/contact
Call: 1-800-222-8477

American crime stoppers association:
http://www.crimestoppersusa.org/
Call: 1-800-222-TIPS (8477)

Be safe.

So... If you dial that number, do you have to specify which country?

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

William Aberhart High School in Calgary today, was that you guys? Glad they caught the asshole

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

What you guys did

8 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 1

Better safe than sorry. You never know what the person mind is when they start e-mailing like that. Maybe a call for help.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

@ThrowawayTwentySev7 which school? I noticed you put canadian crime stoppers first so I imagine somewhere in canada

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 3

Me whenever I see anyone make any kind of threat without following it with a "jk"

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Good on him, we all need to stop sitting on our hands

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

2 kids from my local high school planned a shooting for this past Monday. They were stopped by 2 other kids who overheard and notified cops

8 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

That's the shit people need to stand up for.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Well fucking done. And now they have a chance to get back to being a human instead of another worthless tomb stone.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I'm so glad you said this. The kid isn't bad, just going through a lot and making some crap decisions.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I need a hint: is Crimestoppers the non-urgent version of 911, or why would you call there instead of the (local) police directly?

8 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 0

I believe crimestoppers is also more like an anonymous tip-line

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Yup! Canadian here. Crimestoppers is a tip line, it can be anonymous or not, if you are willing to speak with police and file a report.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You call them if someone is going to do something in the future. I figured If someone is actively threatening you people would know to 1/2

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Call the police

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

In Australia, you'd call 000 for a life threatening emergency, Police Operations for attendance and Crimestoppers to report information.

8 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

Presumably if the threat was imminent, you wouldn't call Crimestoppers.

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

You did the right thing

8 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

His bosses drug house? What kinda job was this kid working?

8 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 2

Drug dealer, duh.

8 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

What in the fucking hell, why!

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

THIS is the kind of thing that prevents bad shit from happening. Good on you, OP

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Sounds like a kid who needs help. Glad he'll be getting it before he did something terrible.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

My kid's high school in Calgary was on lockdown today over death threats

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

WAHS? Why are so many of my co-students parents on imgur.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

THIS IS WHERE I HAVE MY PORN DAMMIT

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yes ABE! we parents are just trying to stay cool and up to date on current trends, it's not working but we're trying.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I appreciate that. I've probably been rude to your child at one point or another but I'm glad they're all safe

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nowadays it's imperative not take things as a joke at first.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Was in chat room, bitch started bragging she'd stolen a baby. Wouldn't stop joking. I finally reported. Can't carry that stuff too far.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

What happened?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oh she went ballistic, raged online about how no one could take a joke for a month. Just a moron. I asked her several times r u joking? 1/2

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

She swore she was serious, then lost it when people took her seriously.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Pathetic human

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I had a friend who did the same thing. Everyone loved him and he told me and one other person his plans. We didn't believe him because 1/2

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

He was so loved by many and he was always happy and extremely intelligent. The other friend turned him in and the police searched him. 2/3

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

He had guns and was prepared. It's been a long time since then, he was on his way to becoming a pastor but OD'd on codeine addiction. 3/3

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My God. Dude.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah it's amazing, my friend isn't a bad person. He felt like he needed to prove something to the world.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Uh sorry but if planning to murder innocent people doesn't make you a bad person, what does?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Hopefully he was more mouth/swagger vs serious, and having found out what can happen he'll get some help and supervision.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I am commenting at this ultra rare point in time where there is nearly 70 points on this post and not a single comment about the gun debate.

8 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 7

we don't have a gun problem, we have a violence problem

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

what gun debate? there really isnt a gun debate..guns for hunting and sports are okay, for police and military olbigatory, for self-defense>

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 10

>good, in the hands of criminals, mentally unstable or unresponsible people and kids bad...the problem are the unresponsible and unstable >

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 8

> people because they dont consider themselfes that...its not a debate about guns, but about who should have fewer rights than others...<<<

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 8

Dude, don't. Just, don't.

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 3

These Canadians, man v

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Oh god, maybe that is why he used avuncular

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Holy shit...good job

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Fucking insane, thanks for possibly saving a lot of people

8 years ago | Likes 269 Dislikes 2

Heard this on the radio this morning :

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In Illinois, right?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Holy shit, there was one in Illinois today. That's what I was talking about

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yo I heard about that... Anyone hurt?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Kid's be crazy.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

GunBros are triggered by the use of the word "clip"

8 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 5

yeah. i guess i am a gun bro. wrong terminology. makes whatever you have to say useless

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not the word, but improper use of said word.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

I'm not even a gunbro, just a grammar nazi. Use the correct fucking word it isn't hard.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

See something say something

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

It takes an avuncular of drugs to figure out how to use clips with an AR and a .45

8 years ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 6

I'm imagining him jamming a 5-round stripper clip sideways into an AR via the ejection port/bolt and laughing my ass off

8 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 2

you had me at stripper.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You use the clips to reload the mags. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnEkeQF46n8&app=desktop

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Look up detachable magazine laws for NY. I shit you not, that's how it has to be done now. Stripper into the ejection port.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Meanwhile in California

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Sorry for DVs, I'm in Cali and totally agree with you. "Ya see kids, this deadly AR-15 is now not dangerous since we neutered the magazine!"

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

New York did it too. I don't think cumo realizes how guns work.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I dont think Cuomo knows how anything works

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The thing I love about Imgur is that a guy talks about shooting people and comments focus on him saying "clips" instead of "magazines".

8 years ago | Likes 635 Dislikes 39

Huh; that's what I hate about the internet.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

You have a point, but by even mentioning it, you have opened the door to that kind of bullshit - even encouraged it.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

That's the biggest crime

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Its important.

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 4

Because America's gun fetish runs deeper than their consideration for human life. It's kind of the root of all their problems.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 5

Downvoting hard truths now?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Your comment's doing better than the guy who said Imgurians are pedantic...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I will admit, I dont take much of Imgur seriously and this is the first thing that i noticed so... eh.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Ahah I found that funny. My friends almost died today and these people are mad at me because a Canadian teen who is living a messed life 1/2

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

Got mags/clips/bullet holsters confused while threatening our lives. Made me mad but what can you do.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

He didn't specify what sort of rifle he had though, some automatic rifles will take clips. If we're getting technical. Example : m1 garand

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Had to scroll a bit to see those comments, damn it feels good knowing that's a minority of em

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

When 20+ kids where murdered, gun nuts focused the discussion on the fact that AR15 doesn't stand for assault rifle but for the maker's name

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 7

Well now you know the type of people who say clip... truly dangerous wording.

8 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 1

I guess he was going to top-load the mag 5 rounds at a time???

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Because imgur is full of pedants that like to act badass.

8 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 62

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I AMA badass

8 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 7

ME TOO!

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Am I a bad ass too? My car has flamethrowers

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Nah that just makes you hot.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

yeah. magazines. not clips. beat me to it

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Excuse a comedy app for making light of a situation.

8 years ago | Likes 319 Dislikes 18

8 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 2

It's one of those things that just makes my eye twitch. Imagine if someone constantly mixed up dumbledore and voldemort.

8 years ago | Likes 50 Dislikes 4

100% this

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm about to argue with you about Gandalf and Luke

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What? I never mix up Dumblevort and Voldedore!

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Voldedore. Hahaha!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Or fork and spoon, "whatever, they are the same thing"

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

and then when you tried to correct them they argued it with you.

8 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 1

Yeah i mean they were the best characters in Lord of the Rings! Remember when they fought with their laser swords on the Deathstar?

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Laser swords... you monster.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Is that the one where Peter Pan gets glass slippers from his fairy godmother?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Ever play a game that involves guns? Its unbearable. I like to reload clips after shooting high caliber rounds from my ar15 assault rifle.

8 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 5

not an assault rifle.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This hurts my poor Mosin brain.

8 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

I always use clipazine.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Magalip.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well 5.56 is typically sold in clips which aid in reloading. And said clips can be reloaded.. so.. if we're gonna be technical...

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 14

Can be sold in clips. Most likely just in a box though.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

Yep

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I wouldn't say "typically." All the 5.56 and .223 I have ever seen and bought has come in boxes. "Rarely" would be more fitting.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

A local class 3 dealer here sells it in clips to load into mags, but everywhere else it's in boxes.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Every single box of 5.56 I've bought (thousands of rounds over multiple brands) has come in clips.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There was recently a bomb threat at the HS my younger brother works at. A note in a bathroom, but they evacuated school. Scary.

8 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 2

In BC Canada!?!? Similar headline in my town recently.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Nah father south.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There are tons of bomb threats all the time in schools, even when i was younger in the 90's we had about 3 a year.

8 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Yeah but now its closer to 3 a month.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I mean the total is kind of irrelevant, considering almost all of them end up hoaxes. What is the average number of school bombings per year

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If you actually plan on blowing up a school, you don't warn people.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Back when payphones were a thing and caller ID wasn't, used to have 'Bomb Buddies', friends you only really saw during a bomb threat.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I work at a k-5 elementary school and worse I've seen is a kid set fire to the bathroom.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

This was in middle and high school.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What a retard! When I was on brown and white I was never this bad

8 years ago | Likes 51 Dislikes 11

people take drugs for a variety of reasons. sometimes they help, but sometimes they dont

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

took me a second to realize what that meant

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Help?

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Poo, bird poo

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Heroin and crack

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My impression from my own experiences is it's not the drugs that make people crazy, they're on drugs to feel normal, whether or not its real

8 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

and then the downward spiral of the inevitable failed attempts at self-medication making them more crazy, so they self-medicate more...

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

There's a name for that process.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I want Avuncular of drugs

8 years ago | Likes 1035 Dislikes 11

No you don't. They're just high blood pressure meds and multivitamins.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You want an amount (meeting you more than half way here) of drugs relating to an uncle?

8 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 1

I have never heard the word "avuncular" before this month, but I've been hearing it every few days for a while now.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If I had an uncle- like man in my life I'd like one full of drugs, also.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

cat*

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

??? Which word is supposed to be cat?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Amazing autocorrect

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I have no intention of hurting anyone anywhere but I would really love avuncular of drugs, thanks

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I'll trade some of mine for Valium or acid.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Sold

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I just want avuncular drugs.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy, avuncular...

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The More You Know!

8 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

I want some uncle drugs

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Friendly drugs!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Ooooh...Uncle Drugs. Kind of like Uncle Goodtouch. And Uncle Whiskey.

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

I have an Uncle Ricky that's all three! Kinda weird considering my parents don't have brothers

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Avuncular is the covfefe of September!

8 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 1

Except it's a real word! Covfefes all around!

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I've seen this word used maybe 4 times in my lifetime of reading, why the hell would this even be in the database for autocorrect?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I dont get this and im too lazy to figure it out

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Autcorrect. "Avuncular" means "like a favorite uncle", but in this case it was supposed to be "a lot of".

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Hah! Classic! Cheers mate!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

TIL avuncular is a word

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Thanks for explaining cuz I was super confused by what "avuncular" was supposed to mean

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Tylenol, benodril, black tar heroin, the works.

8 years ago | Likes 97 Dislikes 1

Powder heroin is far better than tar.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

black-tar heroin sounds so unhealthy, they should make a 'heroin vape' so the hipsters can be ultra-mellow

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Hook it up with some baby aspirin and tums yo

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*diphenhydramine

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

just take 400mg and then spiders and phantom cigarettes. what a hell of a durg

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Dihydrogen monoxide

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Got lit off that shit tonight bruh, shit was Nsane

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ah yes, the PM in Tylenol PM

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

The Z in ZQuil.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The Som in Unisom.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The ol Benadryl in uhh benadryl.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Ibuprofen 800 fucking milligrams man

8 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 0

I ate a flintstones vitamin once.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yo chill. That shit is dangerous

8 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Can't be that bad, whenever I get an ocular migraine and start to go blind 1000mg and about 20min downtime and everything is back to normal.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I was joking....in a sense

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's perfectly safe as long as you don't turn into that mythamphetamine.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

God damn dude, you might have just saved a bunch of lives. Interesting to see how the butterfly effect will go from here.

8 years ago | Likes 2001 Dislikes 16

OR the final destination effect. think about it......

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I was thinking of one scenario, but this isn't avoiding death, it's stopping it. Now if they had gotten friends/nearby people out? Tsktsk.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

and so Final Destination begins, again.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Make sure you tell the police not school officials. A kid in Washington is dead because a school took threats too lightly

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

The school will remember this....

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fuck it let everyone die

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

*Avuncular

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

We get transformers movies until we die. Now I'm not saying he should have let ppl die... but think of what you've done!!! Doomed us all

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Let's just hope it isn't like life is strange where @OP sees a prompt of "this decision will have consequences"

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You can't exactly see it's effects without the other possibility for comparison

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Thousands of future generations were saved. On the flip side, the need for energy sources was exorbitant and the planet died. Nice!

8 years ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 1

I mean, that's not really something you can see without traveling through time or visiting an alternate reality where he didn't get arrested

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He would have originally killed Mega Hitler.

8 years ago | Likes 82 Dislikes 1

Impossible. I'm over here and nowhere near a school.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

You're either lying or Mega Hitler is far less sociopathic than I expected

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Mildness takes many forms. Regular Hitler had a dog and a close relationship with many people around him.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

One of the students will develop a supervirus that will kill half the planet.

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

Neo-Malthusian apologists call such a thing a miracle - as long as only the poor are killed, of course.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Great. Now we have to deal with another Tom Green.

8 years ago | Likes 192 Dislikes 2

pumpyourbreaks.gif

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Damn auto correct. Meant Adolf Lungren.

8 years ago | Likes 60 Dislikes 1

Do you mean Dolph Lundgren?

8 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

Shoot. Auto correct again. Adolph Hitler. Finally!

8 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 0

I thought you were talking about the Expendables where Lundgrens character goes AWOL lol

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Tornadoes. Butterfly effect always ends with tornadoes.

8 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 1

*hurricanes

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Bae > Bay

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 3

How dare you pick Chloe over Kate and Joyce and the other lovelies?

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I spent the whole game saving her, i aint gonna stop for no small town!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Have you PLAYED BtS yet? Just read the journal and texts Chloe writes as you play, they're fucking devastatingly sad.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No, and I probably won't. I've heard it was pretty mediocre and I thought Chloe was a boring character. I miss Kate though...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0