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Columbine copycats (Boys plotted to hit Saint John High, police say)
National Post ^ | Friday, March 18, 2005 | Richard Foot, with files by Mike Traikos

Posted on 03/18/2005 5:34:09 PM PST by Nachum

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Three teenage boys have been arrested for allegedly conspiring to seize control of a school and methodically murder some of its students and teachers.

Police found gunpowder and other material used for making pipe bombs at the boys' homes and believe the youths had practised making bombs.

The boys, aged 15 to 17, were Saint John air cadets and their alleged plot was planned for April 20, the anniversary of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre where 12 students and a teacher were killed.

At a Saint John bail hearing for the two eldest teenagers on Wednesday, police Constable Rick Russell said the boys were plotting a "planned takeover" of Saint John High where one of the boys is a pupil. The other two are from Harbourview High.

He said the boys had been practising making bombs for some time, and were planning to attack the school's administration offices with explosives, where they intended to kill the principal and other officials with bombs and guns. He said the boys then planned to order a list of "hated" students into the offices, one by one, to be executed.

Const. Russell said police had found writing by the boys naming the people they planned to kill.

He said the 17-year-old had also written: "I hate my life ... I hate everyone."

The alleged conspiracy was uncovered last Friday by fellow cadets in a conversation overheard during a March Break trip to Quebec City.

A separate incident involving the same three boys on the Quebec visit is also being investigated by military police, a cadet spokeswoman said yesterday.

(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; boys; columbine; copycats; high; hit; john; plotted; police; saint; say; to

1 posted on 03/18/2005 5:34:10 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Cant be!!!

Mikey Moore said this stuff only happens in AmeriKKKa


2 posted on 03/18/2005 5:37:32 PM PST by skaterboy (Miss my PB)
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To: Nachum
.... He said the 17-year-old had also written: "I hate my life ... I hate everyone." .....

?More 'death' classes held in schools as part of teaching 'morbid-Hindu-Evolution-re-incarnation-Work-Makes-Free' education?

/socialism's caste systems?

3 posted on 03/18/2005 5:39:40 PM PST by maestro
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To: Nachum

They were too young to know this stuff was wrong so they should be let off the hook.


4 posted on 03/18/2005 5:41:52 PM PST by madprof98
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To: Nachum

Were any of them taking medication?


5 posted on 03/18/2005 10:46:42 PM PST by Chewbacca (When it comes to Social Security, I'm Pro-Choice. I want to be able to opt-out.)
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