Salem [Oregon} high school ups security after finding 'hit list'

KATU.com ^ | 06-05-06 | KATU staff

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June 5, 2006 Salem high school ups security after finding 'hit list'

SALEM, Ore. - Tension and fear are running high for students and staff of Sprague High School in Salem after a "hit list" was found in a classroom. Officials say last month, someone left a note in a classroom that made a threat against the school tomorrow, which is 6-6-06.

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This is the second richest high school in town! Go figure!

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Officials say last month

Last month? Seems like plenty of time to find the pinhead.

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You don't know the Salem police.

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I worked a temporary job at this school for three months. It was with learning disabled students, not the general student population!

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Someone probably just didn't want to take finals.

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North Eugene High canceled classes today. The original story is that somebody called the principal's house and made threats. Later it came out that it was someone calling the principal to say they heard someone else talking about things that could happen on 6-6-06 to make the day live up to the hype, so to speak.

But it seems like everyone has to get on that bandwagon and overreact to the imagined "terror in the schools".

When I went to school (Siuslaw High class of '76, student body of maybe 250) we had bomb threats too, probably more than today. The difference was the reaction. They checked them out but seldom evacuated the school or even bothered calling the cops (who were not allowed to enter the building under normal circumstances anyway). I'm not sure there has ever been a bomb threat called in to a school that involved an actual bomb - the logic escapes me why someone would go to the trouble of making and planting a bomb and then tell people about it. When we made black powder devices in jr. high (our science teacher taught us how to make the powder and package it for greatest effect) it was to blow things up.