Victorian schools forced... evacuations, lockdowns amid string of threatening calls across Australia

news.com.au ^ | 2nd February 2016

[naturalman1975]

NEARLY 20 schools have been evacuated or placed in lockdown after

another wave of suspicious phone calls threatening shootings and bombings.

The scare comes after hundreds of students were on Friday evacuated from schools across Victoria and New South Wales, and a kindergarten, in a chilling bomb hoax.

Several schools in Queensland have received similar threats today.

[naturalman1975]

The school year has only just begun here in Australia, last week. In my state schools have been back three or four days depending on the school. We've had mass bomb threats for three consecutive days now in three states of Australia.

So far, they seem to be hoaxes but they have to be taken seriously. And if anybody is planning anything, by observing the schools they are working out where students get evacuated to, which is a concern in itself.

Just the acts alone are causing significant disruption and a drain on police and other emergency resources.

Hoaxes are not that uncommon - but these repeated, mass threats are something new for us.

As a teacher, I'm not particularly worried - odds are that nothing is really going to happen - but I still have to be alert just in case and that is starting to get on my nerves already.

Everything I have heard say kids are mostly taking it in their stride.

[WVKayaker]

It's called "Terrorism". The World Trade Center came down and it changed the face of the World. They won, in a single action, the ability to create mayhem and disruption costing the world (probably) "trillions" of $$$, and people to stand in lines with their shoes off. This is just more of the same.

Islam needs to be wiped from the face of the Earth, but Jesus will more likely return first!

Maranatha!

[ilgipper]

I thought these things don’t happen in other countries.

[PghBaldy]

This has been happening lately across the US. Very disturbing.

[firebrand]

BTTT

[Gen.Blather]

The objective of terrorism is to disrupt life and force your attention onto the terrorist agenda. Since life in general and infidel life in particular means nothing to them, if they had bombs they would simply set them off to kill as many as possible. Since they do not have bombs they will disrupt using the telephone. It is hard to believe that the police are unable to track down the calls. Here the police can tell where a call was made from and what phone made it.

[nonsporting]

Disarm the people or force them into gun-free zones.

Provide no security (or security theatre).

Blame the problem on “terrorism.”

Justify even more draconian, liberty stealing laws.