Another bomb threat

You're right, a bomb threat has become today's toilet papering but the kids have got to realize it's not a joke and one day something really horrible will happen and nobody will pay attention until it's too late and someone is either badly hurt or killed. If ever I've wanted to be wrong it's now but I don't know what the answer is or how to get through to young people about the seriousness of these kinds of actions. Annie

At the beginning of the school year this year we had the same thing in our town. There are two high schools and each of them had bomb threats for 4 days in a row. It was horrible. There were no bombs ever found, but the young people as well as their families were terrified. The thing that most bothered me was that after day one, the students were told that they were not allowed to bring their cell phones to school with them. The reason for this was because the school administration did not want them calling their parents and causing unnecessary congestion due to false threats. The parents that I know of these students refused to allow their young people to go without their phones. Most parents refused to allow them to even return to school. It was finally discovered that the calls were a prank; but as you said, we have to listen to each and every threat and take them all very seriously. Thank you for the reminder. ~Donna

Ah, but one more reason I choose to homeschool. It has gotten crazy since I graduated in 2000.

I don't know what is wrong with children nowadays, and that comment extends to the generation that I am supposed to be in, but I don't claim lol This incident reminds me of another that I was involved in in high school. This was like a week or two after the Columbine incident. One afternoon, after lunch, notes were being slipped under classroom doors saying that someone was coming when school let out to shoot all the black kids and Jews. Word got out among the students and there was panic. Both the lowerclassmen (9th and 10th grade) and upperclassmen (11th and 12th grade) offices were packed with students trying to use the phone to get an excuse to go home. I wasn't really scared, in the back of my mind I knew this was some sick kid playing a prank because they saw all the hub-bub on tv, but I went to the office anyway, because if everyone else was going home, I wasn't going to stay. I got permission to go home, but my high school sweetheart didn't. So you know how high school love goes, I stayed. The school was rather empty by the time 7th bell rolled around, only about 10 kids in each class. The next day, they found out the person who was passing the notes was a student. This student had just become class president, but that was quickly stripped away. You are right Fox, what if this happened for real? My school didn't evacuate because they thought it was a hoax. I didn't leave because I thought it was a hoax. Luckily we were right, but what if we weren't? I could be one of the victims you see on tv. We have to get through to these kids that false alarms are not funny. You can cause some serious danger down the road. Doesn't anyone read "The Boy who Cried Wolf" anymore?

Well isn't that a felony crime to make a bomb threat. It will get these kids suspended from school as well as probably at least probation. But you are right kids these days to appear to be desentitized to everything around them, they don't appear to have the thought process of the end results of their choices. They all tend to have to learn things the hard way as well.

I remember when I was younger and in elementary school and my brothers were in high school, the high school had a bomb threat. It was a very rural community that you would not expect things like that to happen in either. As it turns out a boy called it in because he wanted to spend the day with his girlfriend. Idiot!

Your concern is very correct. These bomb hoaxes are equally dangerous like actual bomb blasts. There are several reasons for it. Some people like threatening others, Some find it enjoyable, Some feel the satisfaction of fooling the authorities, and several such reasons. Its not necessary that only gang criminals are responsible for these, even group of mischiefious people or naughty kids end up doing these things. Actually films and the popularity of bad boy image are deeply influencing people and specially kids to indulge in such activities. In our country, hoaxing is considered as a serious crime and has severe punishment attached to it. I think authorities should be really very concert in this respect and take tough steps to stop such things.

I can tell that this really ticks you off. LOL We have the same problem here in Florida. One High School in the Orlando area had to send the kids home 9 days in a row for bomb threats. Now the kids are going to have make up days during the summer to make up the time that they missed in school.

I agree with you, you have to be a very sick person to find this stuff amusing for funny. Its no prank, its bloody dangerous doing that. I also think you have a point about that people will stop reacting to the threats. That is true, just look at all the threats of getting Cancer on one million ways, i don't give a sh*t about thoose alarms because they are so many and you get sick of hearing it. Worst case scenario would be if one of thoose kids actually bombed a school that they have threatened to bomb, no one would listen which would result in major loss of life and property. I feel it should be punishable by prison, let them shake some bars for a few months, hopefully that would give them enough time to think about what theyve done and what could have happened.