Posted on 03/07/2008 12:20:55 PM PST by Pyro7480
Petersburg Police and officers from two other counties converged on Petersburg High School to help control several fights that broken out there, officials say.
School officials say the incidents stem from a bomb threat that was called in to Petersburg High in the afternoon. Police were brought in to sweep the school for explosives, but reported nothing suspicious.
After students were allowed back in the school, officials say several fights broke out among the student body. Police from Petersburg, Chesterfield and Prince George were on the scene trying to gain control of the situation.
Petersburg Public Schools spokesman Cliff Davis says the bomb threat was part of a gang initiation. Police from Petersburg and the counties have begun to leave the scene, officials say.
Ping!
The prison is in Petersburg.
Central VA ping. Way to go Richmond!
Fighting? What for? I remember bomb threats as some of the most magical moments of my entire school career. While the bomb squad swept the school, we’d sit out on the cool spring grass of the athletic field, laughing, talking, and trying to sweet-talk the girls into kisses. Ah, those were the days.
But waste a free day off by fighting? It never would have crossed our minds.
Hey, there’s plenty to blame Richmond for, but you can’t put Petersburg on that list. They do it all by themselves.
LOL - I must be a lot older than you are: with us it was fire alarms ;-)
Moses Malone’s alma mater.
I recall school bomb threats back in the 70s!
Remember: Everything that happened when the hippies were young is now being repeated when the hippies are old.
Worst. Second Childhood. Ever.
You have to love the things that get Richmond in the news such as rioting for $50 Apple laptops (from a summers ago).
But then again Chesterfield County just settled with the Butt Print Artist teacher for $65,000.
Definitely!
Is this the wonderful “socialization” that homeschoolers are missing?
Gee! In my entire work career, there was never a bomb threat at my place of work. Occasionally I've had to evacuate a building due to a fire alarm. No one started fights after the incident. I guess I didn't live in the “real world” that government schoolers enjoy!
It happened once at a place I worked. It was the day before the contract was up and we were to go on strike. One of the more mature union elements called it in. It was a place that dealt with highly flammable materials, too. No panic cause we all had a pretty good idea it was a fake, but we got out expediently. The company wasn’t going to take any chances.
I guess government schools train kids to be union thugs. :-)
In Petersburg you’d BETTER homeschool!
That bad?
The district we lived in previously was horrible. It was a welfare town, high teen pregnancy rate, lots of drugs and child abuse of all kinds. The parents didn’t give a rip because when school wasn’t in session, they’d just roam the streets, hungry. The parents didn’t even bother to feed them. If they could scrounge something up on their own, they might have a meal. There was a church that had a ministry of providing lunches for these kids during school breaks. It was about all those kids got to eat.
No way on God’s green earth would my kids see the inside of THAT school.
We live about 15 miles from Petersburg. It’s a real dive. Think Detroit and you have a pretty good idea.
My wife was almost in the Great Henrico County Laptop Riot. She saw the massive traffic jam on Laburnum at 7:00 that morning, turned right around and came home.
I had to overnight in Petersburg many years ago when I was down there doing a computer installation that went horribly wrong and stuck me in a downtown warehouse until near midnight. I pulled into the Super 8 at the edge of downtown, near I-95, and as I was locking up the work van, a security guard walked up. Well, I think he was a security guard. He was a middle-aged white guy, unarmed, wearing a blue police shirt, blue jeans, and cowboy boots—and drunk. He slurred, “Y’better git yer stuff outta yer van, son, ‘ese folks’ll steal it.” I just wanted to yell at him, “well, isn’t it your job to STOP THEM?”
I couldn’t get to sleep until 3:00 am because of all the noise outside—wall-to-wall traffic on the street below, all of ‘em blasting rap as loud as they could.
Short version: I’m not surprised this happened in Petersburg. If Lee had known back in 1864 what it’d turn into, maybe he wouldn’t have defended it as long as he did...
}:-)4
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.