[AAABEST]

I think it's pretty sad and cowardly of us to overreact this way. We can't be sending up fighters or grounding airplanes every time someone phones in a anonymous threat or runs to the rest room.

Pretty soon the terrorists won't have to use jets and bombs. They'll just have to make prank phone calls to disrupt our society.

[Poohbah]

Rule One: ALWAYS HONOR THE THREAT.

[don-o]

Pretty soon the terrorists won't have to use jets and bombs. They'll just have to make prank phone calls to disrupt our society.

Give that man a ceegar!!

This is the soft underbelly of America in the present emergency. The person who took the call dared not to relay it up the chain, and CYA is the operative principle.

[HiJinx]

They'll just have to make prank phone calls to disrupt our society...

Hmmmm...high school students have been doing that for decades...

[ladyinred]

They HAVE to with this kind of threat. If this turns out to be real, this is a deadly disease! It would be irresponsible if they didn't take this seriously! I would be furious if they didn't.

[DB]

And if you're wrong a few million die.

Hardly a reasonable gamble.