“I didn’t do it.”
Posted on 11/18/2009 8:00:11 AM PST by RaceBannon
Just on the radio, bomb scare Trumbull High School, Connecticut
maps of area above
radio broadcast below
http://player.play.it/player/player.html?v=4.9.24b&id=80&onestat=wtic
Radio station that broadcast it main website
http://www.wticam.com
Is it time for finals, already?
no, that’s 3 weeks away!
“I didn’t do it.”
When I was in high school many years ago, NO ONE publicized bomb scares. No radio or TV mentioned them. Many times the kids in the schools didn’t know there was one (unless the perps told them).
The police would show up, maybe look in some possible locations, and tell the principal all was well. Sometimes the principal would panic and want to evacuate the school. The police, whose OWN kids were in the school, would tell the principal not to do it. That usually calmed them down.
These days, things are different.
Of course, when I was in 4th grade I was able to stay outdoors on a regular basis from 9 am until 10 pm (except a quick lunch and dinner) and not have my parents worrying.
And no one I knew had keys for their house.
That's what I thought at first, but I think there's a few more weeks.
Maybe some one just felt like taking a paid sick day.
Hey, that’s where I went to High School!
I went to Fairfield High in CT and from what I remember back in the 90’s we had a couple bomb scares from idiot kids calling in - esp. after Columbine, the WTC & Oklahoma believe it or not.
Seriously? A minor bomb scare at a high school is “Breaking News” at FR? When I was in middle school, there were at least a half dozen bomb threats a year (though not as many in high school, which I found odd), and they didn’t even make the school paper.
Everyone knew the drill. Get up, walk outside and stand around for a while, and go back to class. Whatever happened to the expression, “No need to make a federal case out of it”?
People who intend to blow you up don’t give you any warning. Bomb scares are invariably bomb hoaxes.
That's my brilliant contribution to this thread. Thank you for a trip down memory lane.
In this day and age?
A Bomb scare is a serious thing. It might be real this time.
Slacker #1: “Dude! I am NOT ready for tomorrows calculus test.”
Slacker #2: “Me neither, dude.”
Slacker #1: “Hey! I’ve got an idea....”
Agree. There were probably half a dozen scares like this around the country today.
In order for this to rise to a ‘breaking news’ level it would need to be accompanied by a bomb factory raid story or some such thing. IMHO.
I hope it’s a prank and NOT real. Prayers that the worry is for nothing, RB.
Just a general FYI - if you do a google alert for “suspicious packages” “Bombs”, etc... You’ll see about half a dozen bomb threats at schools and various other places nearly every week. You really would be VERY surprised at just how common this is (sad, but true). And, that is just the ones that actually make the papers — there are MANY others that are NOT reported. In fact, in my area it’s the policy of the media outlets to NOT report them due to the fact that most people making these types of threat get the thrill from the coverage of the threat itself. They broke the policy here last year when our local Wal-mart received a threat, and that was only because word spread like wildfire through our small(ish) community and the news stations were getting so many calls they HAD to report that everything was OK just to get the calls to STOP.
Again, prayers that this is some idiotic kid who wanted to get his jollies seeing the reaction of the community and the police.
I can do better - I worked at the Trumbull Mall 17 years ago.
Top that.
I'll try... I drove by the Trumbull mall the day before yesterday... and had dinner at a Chinese restaurant in Trumbull later that same day...
We didn’t do bomb scares when I was a kid in school, but every once in a while someone would set off the fire alarm—usually at exam time, but sometimes from sheer exuberance.
And it used to happen fairly often in Main Building at NYU, when someone wanted a break from classes and it was a nice sunny day outside.
These used to happen all the time.
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