Posted on 04/25/2007 1:20:42 PM PDT by bedolido
PAPILLION, Neb. -- A teenager accused of threatening students at Papillion La Vista High School will stay in police custody, a judge said on Wednesday.
The 16-year-old faces a charge in juvenile court of making terroristic threats. He was accused of saying in class on Monday that he intended to kill everyone at school. The teen allegedly told school administrators that he didn't mean the threat seriously, that he was resonding in anger to harassment at school, prosecutors said.
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I trust he got his video done ahead of time so the MSM can give him his 15 minutes (hours?) of fame.
I used to live in Papillion. I’m surprised there aren’t tons of shootings by kids who are crazy with boredom.
The inevitable result of 24/7 news coverage.
A democrat to the bone.
This sounds like a kid just mouthing off and not meaning to be taken seriously at all. My guess is the school administration is overreacting, just like when they suspend kids for bringing a flimsy plastic knife to school in their lunchbox. Probably should have just sent him to the principal’s office for a lecture, and if the kid didn’t seem contrite enough, the principal should have called his parents and told them that one of them (if there are 2) needed to come in and have a chat with the principal before the end of the day.
It seems like kids who mouth off about this stuff are just seeking attention and its the silent brooding types who pose the actual threat.
You could be right. We abandon reason because “zero tolerance” is so much easier; it’s another fine product of our increasingly feminized modern society.
Wow, I went to Papio HS... Excellent football team. Go Monarchs.
We had a guy blow up about 6 student lockers in the hall with a pipe bomb when I was there, but no one was killed.
Scenario #1: Adults decide to avoid over-reacting, and end up not taking the kid seriously. The kid comes to school the next day and kills dozens. Ooops.
Scenario #2: The ticket-holder in front of you at the airport tells the TSA they plan to "Make 9/11 look like a joke". The TSA wants to avoid over-reacting and wave the guy through. How comfortable do you feel getting on the plane?
Personally, I would like everyone who "cries fire in a crowded theater" to be dealt with harshly. These are cases where zero-tolerance make more sense than shrugging and saying "It's probably nothing".
he was picked on, it’s someone else’s fault.
i have a special running on anger management off-set credits if anyone is interested.
Loser acts up for attention. The schoolmarms jump to their feet to give it to him. What a system.
It’s just that “If you ___, I’ll kill you” was pretty common chatter among kids in my day. It was no more meant to be taken literally than shouting the F-word. It depends on both how the boy said this and his history, neither of which we have access to. But if he didn’t have any history of violence or serious threats thereof or psych diagnoses AND the kids in the class didn’t think he was serious, then this reaction is excessive. With Cho, it seemed that none of the professors or students who’d had contact with him were particularly surprised that he snapped (though the degree of his murderous spree was obviously a surprise to everyone), and at least a handful said they talked among themselves in the past about how he was the sort of person who might come and shoot up the school some day.
Whatever the reason is or was for this kids behavior, it was done in poor taste after what happened at Virginia Tech. Mad or not, the little b*****d should have used better judgement and NOT said something like that while the other is still so fresh in the victims who survived,families of victims and the Nations minds.
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