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Threats suck, i no. Our school last year, had the highest number of bomb threats in the country. 38. I can never take it seriously anymore, unfortunatly.

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I have a friend (who shall remain unnamed) Who's grandfather used to call in a bomb threat every time her mother didn't feel like going to school...
Some people are just too stupid to know not to do these types of things. I believe that one of the people that was caught for a bomb threat last year at our school ended up owing the school around 12,000 dollars for daily operation fees.
Not a good Idea for moral reasons, and definitely not a good Idea for financial/legal reasons.

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The school I graduated from gets numerous bomb threats a week. There's no visible (to the students) evidence that they do anything about it, but the staff is notified and all that good junk.

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I've been unlucky enough to experience three of these threats personally, all three in Highschool.

The first one a kid put a kitchen timer he stole from home-ec in a locker and you'd walk by hearing "tick, tick, tick". I heard it and reported it, and unfortunatly the poor kid whose locker it was was arrested even though he was innocent. Luckily it was summer and we got to go home early.

The second some kid took his dad's old briefcase to school and put it in the courtyard of our school. I was on lunch break, saw the briefcase sitting in the middle of a courtyard pretty suspiciously and reported that one too. They called in the watergun robot to destroy it.

And the third incident was the worst I've seen. My woodshop teacher Mr. Lalancette was teaching shop, and had to leave to use the bathroom, well a good five minutes had passed and we all kind of got concerned. I had to use the bathroom anyways, and went looking for him. I got to the mens room, and I see the teacher standing in the doorway with a blank stare on his face, and his complexion was as white as a ghost. Now this teacher was in the army, and it takes a lot to make him scared, so this was pretty serious. I asked him what was wrong, and he said very softly "go get the cops". I didnt hesitate and ran to the police substation we had in our school. Turns out somebody had brought a briefcase to school, and in the briefcase was a kitchen timer and some random wires that stuck out the sides. The school was put on lockdown for three hours, dogs were brought in, the bomb squad combed the place, and every student was searched.

It was very very scary to see what someone's idea of a practical joke can lead to. I'm happy to say though, that all those involved in the pranks were brought to justice, by either the school, or the police. Sometimes being the rat is better than risking your life.

~Greg

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Well we came to find out that it was a fake, but some kid did think that it would be funny to scare everyone so during the peprally he hit his drum in a way that made it seem like a gun shot, but got off because he said he was just joking around.

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Consider that the sheer weight of seeing a school evacuation and law enforcement presence, or the major possibility of the legal issues that follow, may have actually stunned the threat-maker into not going through with his plans.

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What is it with kitchen timers, or digital LED displays that, in combination with a pile of colourful wires, makes everyone think "bomb"? I know that it's a dramatic convention which exists so that exposition isn't necessary when James Bond walks into a room and sees an unfamiliar device; but in real life, you'd have to be all kinds of stupid to build bomb which ticks ominously and unstealthily, or displays in large red numerals the time remaining before it explodes. It seems like a disproportionate amount of resources are used in dealing with the things that are least likely to actually do damage, while the real threats, like pipe bombs and incendiaries, aren't nearly so easy to detect. I wonder how many people would alert the authorities if they saw a twelve-inch piece of black iron pipe, with sealed endcaps, sitting on top of a garbage can in the cafeteria? (It doesn't take a rocket scientist to pack it with things that will cause it to explode on command.)

And incidentally, how is that a legal search? (Unless, of course, everyone consented—which is not likely, if there's enough crime around to warrant a permanent police presence in the school.)

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He said there is a police substation in his school. I think permanent police presence has been weighed and agreed upon already for some reason or another.

Good thing the HS I went to never got subjected to this kind of stupidity of a bomb threat by the student body.

Although, in grade school we did have a sniper threat. That was an interesting year. Every time we walked outside we would look at the building across the street for something shiny (scope).

Again nothing ever came of it, as with most of these incidents everyone has described, but the threat was there.

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Although the administration may want the students searched, the fourth amendment still applies. Locker searches are legal, as the lockers are considered school property. However the search of your person is illegal without a warrant, probable cause or consent of aforementioned person.

I'm pretty sure consent must be explicit, so that rules out the "They [students] didn't object" argument. There is no way they had probable cause or warrants on hundreds of students.

I know at Watertown High, students are regularly searched by the administration. Very rarely do they object, because they think that its just allowed. Even with probable cause, the administration still does not have the legal right to search your person. These days too many people forget their rights. This is evident in the passing of the Presidential Military Order, which revoked the right of habeas corpus to "unlawful enemy combatants". As a society, if we wish to preserve the freedom and democracy won by our forefathers, we really need to educate the youth on their inalienable rights.