Posted on 04/18/2007 10:06:37 AM PDT by Froufrou
Campus threats forced lock-downs and evacuations at universities, high schools and middle schools in nine states on Tuesday, a day after a Virginia Tech student's shooting rampage killed 33 people.
One threat in Louisiana and another in Montana directly mentioned the massacre in Virginia, while others were reports of suspicious activity in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Dakota, South Dakota and Michigan.
In Louisiana, parents picked up hundreds of students from Bogalusa's high school and middle school amid reports that a man had been arrested Tuesday morning for threatening a mass killing in a note that alluded to the murders at Virginia Tech.
Schools Superintendent Jerry Payne said both schools were locked down and police arrested a 53-year-old man who allegedly made the threat in a note he gave to a student headed to the private Bowling Green School in Franklinton. Both towns are in southeastern Louisiana.
A Great Falls, Mont., high school was locked down for a time Tuesday after a threatening note was found in a girls' bathroom.
A student found the threatening note at about 12:15 p.m. on a toilet paper dispenser. It stated, "the shooting would start at Great Falls High at 12:30 and it would be worse than Virginia Tech," Assistant Superintendent Dick Kuntz said. He said it was a hoax.
In Rapid City, S.D., schools were locked down after receiving reports of a man with a gun in a parking lot at Central High. No shots were fired and no injuries were reported, police said. The high school students were taken to the nearby Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, where parents were allowed to pick up their children.
In Austin, authorities evacuated buildings at St. Edward's University after a threatening note was found, a school official said.
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Better get used to these and incidents like VT should the Dumbassacrats have their way and pull us out of Iraq prematurely
But I thought it wasn’t possible to evacuate and lock down campuses?
I read elsewhere that the perp ‘would not have passed a background check’ due to having been in a mental health facility before. The implication is clear - and troubling.
Those who intend real evil are not going to give warnings. "Those" meaning AQ or copycat Cho's,
prosecuted instead of persecuted....well, maybe persecuted too.
Maybe the Powers That Be will develop a national standard concerning procedures to be followed in threatening situations like these.
Good input!
Input reported with sadness, that the situation exists.
This week in April hasn’t been a very good one in recent memory.
Waco, Tx and Oklahoma city bombing on April 19th
Columbine shooting April 20th
Now Va. Tech April 16th
A few more for April 20,
1914 - Seventeen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a bitter Colorado coal-miner’s strike
1961 - Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US troops against Cuba.
1968 - A South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes during takeoff at Windhoek, South-West Africa, killing 122.
1979 - Jimmy Carter’s rabbit incident.
1998 - TAME Boeing 727-200 chartered by Air France crashes into Cerro El Cable mountain after takeoff from Bogotá, Colombia, killing 53.
Those copycat terrorists ought to be strung up from the flagpole in front of their own schools! That nonsense would quit real fast.
Because of these notorious “anniversaries”, one of my local area schools is on lockdown.
The Principal sent each student home with a letter -- detailing precisely what steps were taken to assure the safety of the students, who was called in from what law enforcement departments to assess and snoop out the situation; what areas of the schools, trash cans emptied, all classrooms, all lockers, under tables.
It's great stuff, but what if the BOMBER decided to hide the bomb in the areas where the students were evacuated to?
Those who blame VT for not having "done enough" really haven't put much thought into their analysis, IMHO.
As someone who has worked both in high schools and at VT.... locking down a single connected building (like most high schools) is possible. Locking down 122 separate buildings over a 2600 acre campus (VT) isn't. Talk about what you know something about...
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