Bomb Threat At My Kid's School!

monster · 03-14-2012, 06:34 PM

yawn.....

I'm sure I'm wrong to be so blase about it, but there was one a few weeks ago at a nearby middle school that led to a delayed start of the school day, and we had them all the time growing up. Hours spent on the tennis courts while they searched the building while someone was supposed to be taking an exam........

Plus The Kid in question won't be there on Friday, the day specified in the threat -which was left scrawled on a bathroom wall on Tuesday. So "I'm alright, Jack"

I know, they have procedures to follow just in case.... but rly? so glad this is the day we are missing.

piercehawkeye45 · 03-14-2012, 06:36 PM

Had around four or five when I as in Middle and High School. Even had one in college...

Dumb.

ZenGum · 03-14-2012, 06:58 PM

Clone threat :

Aliantha · 03-14-2012, 07:36 PM

Wow, we never had them when I was in school, and I've never heard of it happening around here at schools.

You crazy yankees!

limey · 03-14-2012, 07:44 PM

Happened all the time in the UK when I was growing up.

Griff · 03-14-2012, 07:51 PM

They had a string of them at a neighboring High School a few years back. The Principal put everyone in the soccer bleachers to "keep them safe" until things got sorted out. Friends ratted the kid out a half hour or so after school was supposed to end for the day. No more bomb threats.

ZenGum · 03-14-2012, 08:13 PM

What if they put the bomb under the soccer bleachers?

Lamplighter · 03-14-2012, 08:16 PM

If a parent drove it there, it would be a soccer-bomb.

HungLikeJesus · 03-14-2012, 08:51 PM

When I grew up, bomb meant very good, excellent, the best; "cool"; "awesome", so there were lots of misunderstandings.

Clodfobble · 03-14-2012, 08:54 PM

One time a kid called in a bomb threat in my high school... except the dumbass did it from the payphone inside the school building. Not only did the office staff recognize the number on caller ID, but the phone was visible from the office windows. They had a hand on his arm before he even finished the call.

ZenGum · 03-14-2012, 08:57 PM

re: Clod's story ...

infinite monkey · 03-15-2012, 12:22 PM

I don't think we ever had one bomb threat. The worst I ever remember were occasional fist fights. I'd say those big old farm boys didn't need fancy schmancy weapons, and if they wanted a day off school they'd just go plow something.

Or, sometimes I think I went to school in the 50s.

Gravdigr · 03-15-2012, 12:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Clone threat :

I'm kinda surprised that someone would joke about this, and that I would be the one to talk sense at a time like this, but:

Bongs are not a joking matter. Empty bongs are not empty threats.

Empty bongs are sad.

Now, back to the other thing.

infinite monkey · 03-15-2012, 12:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

I'm kinda surprised that someone would joke about this, and that I would be the one to talk sense at a time like this, but:

Bongs are not a joking matter. Empty bongs are not empty threats.

Empty bongs are sad.

Now, back to the other thing.

Honestly Grav, I tried to reply to that, to add some levity...but it was just... too painful (starts wailing and gnashing teeth again.)

Oh the humanity!

kerosene · 03-16-2012, 12:43 PM

I don't think we ever had a bomb threat when I was in school. The worst thing we ever had was a kid brought a gun to high school and from then on, there were cops always monitoring the hallways.
I do remember a suspicious package at a place I worked once. It was around that time when people were getting anthrax in the mail.

03-14-2012, 06:34 PM	#1
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Bomb Threat At My Kid's School! yawn..... I'm sure I'm wrong to be so blase about it, but there was one a few weeks ago at a nearby middle school that led to a delayed start of the school day, and we had them all the time growing up. Hours spent on the tennis courts while they searched the building while someone was supposed to be taking an exam........ Plus The Kid in question won't be there on Friday, the day specified in the threat -which was left scrawled on a bathroom wall on Tuesday. So "I'm alright, Jack" I know, they have procedures to follow just in case.... but rly? so glad this is the day we are missing. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-14-2012, 06:36 PM	#2
piercehawkeye45 Franklin Pierce Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,695	Had around four or five when I as in Middle and High School. Even had one in college... Dumb. __________________ I like my perspectives like I like my baseball caps: one size fits all.

03-14-2012, 06:58 PM	#3
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Clone threat : __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

03-14-2012, 07:36 PM	#4
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Wow, we never had them when I was in school, and I've never heard of it happening around here at schools. You crazy yankees! __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

03-14-2012, 07:44 PM	#5
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Happened all the time in the UK when I was growing up. __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

03-14-2012, 07:51 PM	#6
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	They had a string of them at a neighboring High School a few years back. The Principal put everyone in the soccer bleachers to "keep them safe" until things got sorted out. Friends ratted the kid out a half hour or so after school was supposed to end for the day. No more bomb threats. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

03-14-2012, 08:13 PM	#7
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	What if they put the bomb under the soccer bleachers? __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

03-14-2012, 08:16 PM	#8
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	If a parent drove it there, it would be a soccer-bomb.

03-14-2012, 08:51 PM	#9
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	When I grew up, bomb meant very good, excellent, the best; "cool"; "awesome", so there were lots of misunderstandings. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

03-14-2012, 08:54 PM	#10
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	One time a kid called in a bomb threat in my high school... except the dumbass did it from the payphone inside the school building. Not only did the office staff recognize the number on caller ID, but the phone was visible from the office windows. They had a hand on his arm before he even finished the call. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

03-14-2012, 08:57 PM	#11
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	re: Clod's story ... __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

03-15-2012, 12:22 PM	#12
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	I don't think we ever had one bomb threat. The worst I ever remember were occasional fist fights. I'd say those big old farm boys didn't need fancy schmancy weapons, and if they wanted a day off school they'd just go plow something. Or, sometimes I think I went to school in the 50s.

03-16-2012, 12:43 PM	#15
kerosene Touring the facilities Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The plains of Colorado Posts: 3,476	I don't think we ever had a bomb threat when I was in school. The worst thing we ever had was a kid brought a gun to high school and from then on, there were cops always monitoring the hallways. I do remember a suspicious package at a place I worked once. It was around that time when people were getting anthrax in the mail.

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