Well, it finally happened...
 

I am a sophmore at Century High School, where there has been a reported bomb threat. When we came to school, we were forced into using only one of three entrences, where a female police officer was writing something down as each new person entered the building. Before our first classes start, we have a schoolwide broadcast called "JagTV", where student's tell us what's happening in school, and that's when I learned of the bomb. When they showed a picture of the threat, It was in semi-curly letters, simply stating "BOMB 10/19/06" on a white board. It's not in the news, I think, otherwise i'd give you a link or something. Iv'e been pulled out of school today, and tommarrow (when it's supposed to happen) by my mom. Seeing as how this is happening everywhere nowaday's, I secretly anticipated this happening. None of these threats have followed suit as far as I know, so I'm a little angry at not being able to go to school. Then again, better to be safe than sorry. I think it's just someone trying to get a reason for not going to parent teacher conferences (they're on the 19th and the 20th).

*sigh*

This has been happening far too much lately. My brother's school had a 'gun threat' a couple of weeks ago, because of some passive messages about bringing a gun somewhere close to the school on Myspace and having someone else blow that up into a threat.

Why? To get some days out of school. It's disgusting that people resort to abusing the emotionalism in the country about Columbine's precedent and the recent shooting near Columbine.

Exploit people's fears to get out of school...Dear fuck it's pathetic.

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Josh, my second cousin, set the bathroom ceiling on fire, then ran and pulled the alarm. for three days people thought him a hero and school was cancelled due to asbestos floating everywhere.

Another kid threatened someone with a butter knife in his hand and school got cancelled for the rest of the day.

It's stupid, it's retarded and I agree with mesden 100%. Dear fuck, it's pathetic.

Now this is a coincidence. I just graduated from a Century High School, and when I was a sophomore, there was a bomb threat and police and other security checked the entire school. It even went into its whole lock down mode, which is relatively funny because when it locks down, if you are in a locker bay, you become stuck in the locker bay, and if the bomb would happen to be there, you would be trapped. I'm relatively certain that it happened in October as well. They later found out it was a kid who didn't want to go to class that day. He was instantly expelled. He still works a basically minimum wage paying job at a local car wash, which is probably fair. Never fuck around, especially if it deals with explosives.

You are not the only one. Back when I was in middle school here in Mexico, we had a bomb threat. Everyone in the school was panicked, including me, but the police came in time, examined the school, found the bomb and disabled it. Then after everything calmed down they took the bomb to examine and see who was responsible for the thread, and they found the person responsible for that. They found it and it is currently in jail.

And if you are going to ask me, yes. I am mexican.

Jaja, no manches Phoenix, con esa historia ya ganaste.

Wait, this sort of thing is new to you people? Folks, my senior year was immediately following the whole Columbine deal. I swear, we had three bomb threats in a single week just because some dumbass kids thought it'd be funny. And, of course, everyone was so uberpanicky that they kept buying into it. Black trenchcoats were against dress code that year for that very reason.

The sad thing was our bomb threat procedure, that being that we all evacuated to the football field and sat in the bleachers. Honestly, if you want the highest kill count, the best place to plant the bomb in that case is pretty obvious, don't you think?

But I digress. Be thankful that having a bomb threat or a gun threat or anything else in the singular is all you have to deal with, because in my day panicked evacuation was pretty much second to breathing.

I believe they'll be preventing the bomb by having random back pack checks at the one entrence, so we won't have to worry about massive deaths on bleachers (they're not even big enough anyway).

Also, are the "a's" in your last sentence italic for a reason POS industries?

FBM, if you've noticed, everything I do is for a reason. Also, the fact that the statement was followed by "or anything else in the singular", denoting that, yes, there should be an emphasis on the term "a".

And, you know, I've always been against the idea of backpack searches, especially mandatory searches upon entrance to the school (unless I misinterpreted your statement in terms of chronology). People often keep very personal items in their backpacks, and it just seems uncouth to have somebody going through your business because there's a slim chance you might have access to some C4. It's just my personal stance that it's a tad more noble to die with your freedoms intact than allow paranoia to erode them away.

It's honestly frustrating how a few isolated incidents puts everyone on red alert, where as before nobody would have batted an eyelash.

I know it's the whole "Fool me once," thing, but come on. Anything is better than this.