Posted on 08/25/2009 10:07:48 PM PDT by Steelfish
Columbine-Style Attack by Armed California Teen Thwarted by 'Heroic' Teachers
August 25, 2009
A teen armed with a sword and chainsaw who had several pipe bombs strapped to his body was arrested Monday after two explosions rocked Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, Calif., KTVU reported.
Police called the foiled attack that forced the evacuation of more than 1,200 students and teachers a Columbine-style plot, according to the station.
San Mateo Police Chief Susan Manheimer told KTVU that the 17-year-old boy came onto campus with the chainsaw, a 2-foot-long sword and 10 homemade pipe bombs attached to a tactical vest he was wearing.
He detonated two of the pipe bombs in an empty hallway near the library, and the smoke activated a fire alarm, Manheimer said.
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Guess we need a waiting period for kids to buy chainsaws, knifes and pipes now! That will stop them!
First time I’ve been impressed with a public school teacher in a long time!
Yes, FReeper teachers, I know you’re out there, and I toy with the idea of being a public school teacher as a second career. It’s just the vast majority in the news are nothing but trouble.
So hats off to a brave man.
Pretty short sword. I have a kitchen knife almost that long. More indications the kid was a real nut case.
I seriously wonder if the media’s excessive attention to the social ostracization and sad home lives of the Columbine murders made copy cat efforts more appealing. The message coming out of the Columbine murders was sometimes “well what do you expect when you treat kids this way?” and I suspect there were some warped individuals who said “Yeah! What DO you expect me to do when I don’t fit in?” Perhaps a little more focus on the cowardice of killing unarmed people, because you are too weak to bear the thought that others may not like you or want to be like you, might have been more appropriate.
Curious...was the teacher kicked out of the Teachers Union then fired?
If a child needs to make a statement, why not just get a piece of poster paper and write it down?
I’m not making light of the subject, really, but what are we teaching our children? Or let me rephrase: What are the liberal teacher’s union employees teaching our children?
“If something bothers you, go kill someone and you’ll feel better.” WHAT is the point of that? Oh, you may “feel” better for a half second, but as you sit in your jail cell as some older criminal’s playtoy, you’re gonna wish you had gotten that piece of poster paper and written down what was troubling you.
Life is NOT the movies. Some actions have no do-overs.
Geeze! Chainsaws and pipe bombs? Is this the wonderful “socialization” homeschoolers are missing? ( Just wondering).
Guess what! Think of the poor unfortunate kids who were **forced** by the government to associate with this kid in their government kiddie prisons ( oops! “schools”). And I thought kids had a First Amendment Right to freely assemble with those of their parents’ choosing. ( Silly me!)
When they had him on the ground they should have kicked him in the head til it turned to jelly. There will be a trial and we will hear more than we need to about him. He’ll be sent to a “mental health” facility where staff will be working to salvage him.
His name will become known all over the world. To stop this kind of copy-catting the names of these freaks should not be mentioned. Other sick, evil little freaks will idolize and immulate them.
If you think the fact that he would have probably killed himself after the slaughter would prevent stomping him to death on the spot from being a deterent, making him anonymous and despicable as he is could.
At least he would not walk away a hero to other sickies. I have to think that would be a good thing. A headline about an evil degenerate non-entity being killed while attempting to murder classmates could be a deterent. Maybe singing the praises of the students or teachers who killed one of the creeps would help.
That's my daughter's school. She says all her teachers are like that, even the PC ones. She took it in stride yesterday but today she was a little traumatized. The girls went to the booster club meeting tonight and one of the guys who tackled the bomber was guarding the door, Mr. Canda.
Unlike Columbine, there was no hesitation of any kind and the security was quite sensible and effective. Teachers and Students reacted immediately, first Police on the scene entered the building upon arrival. My daughter's class was at the evacuation site within 15 minutes of the incident.
Later the SFPD bomb squad detonated the bombs. They accidentally blew out some windows in the school. Oh Well.
If they bother to autopsy this kid, or check his medical records, I can guarantee you they’ll find a history of psych drugs. It’s a common thread with these senseless murders.
Since he had no firearms on his person how was this a “columbine” style of attack? The left knows no shame.
Most likely, they would only do that to a dead person.
Accckkk!
I didn't read the whole article, and assumed the perp was dead. My bad. Too sleepy to do my usual due diligence. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
G'night.
Isn't the school about 80% window? On the exterior, anyways, it seems like all window, with a bit of huge I-beam thrown into the mix.
We used to use those I-beams to gain entrance to the interior when we forgot our homework. I even remember my dad driving me to the school when I neglected to bring home an assignment in about 1986. His words still reverbrate in my ears: "Get to climbing".
I am a Hillsdale Knight, class of 87.
It's a nice Modernist design, very durable and with good human qualities. As far as the school goes, I think it's adapted well to the nonsense we now know as public education. Cut through the PC rhetoric and you can see the division of the school into smaller units ("SLC") makes it easier to know and be known by the staff.
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