Head Serf
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Well, for not the first, but the second time in just a few weeks, I am missing school due to a bomb threat. My question is, do you think that the schools will continue to shut down school when they receive threats of violence?
For the second time this month, I missing school due to a bomb threat
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GoodEnoughForMe
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Bah, bomb threats are nothing. When my school had one, we went outside for 20 minutes while they brought the bomb dogs in, then they let us all back in (the threat as found during class).
I have to imagine that with recent events, schools are rather paranoid right now.
I have to imagine that with recent events, schools are rather paranoid right now.
They'll have to. Or else they would be risking the lives of hundreds of kids.
Common sense, really.
Thorgalaeg
Deity
When i was a kid there were many bomb threats in my school, supposedly from ETA, GRAPO and such. In this cases, higher the number, less seriously they are taken, so most time we continued in class. My teacher, a very strict one (and a comunist), said: "we will remain here, this way if there is indeed a bomb, the ones who didnt come to school today are going to be the main suspects". 
Abaddon
Deity
Never had a bomb scare.. few accidental fire alarms though...
Meleager
Stoned as a Statue
There were quite a few bomb threats in my old primary school. Each time we went out to the oval (the perfect place to put the thing) and waited for hours whilst they dug up every brick in the place.
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When i was a kid there were many bomb threats in my school, supposedly from ETA, GRAPO and such. In this cases, higher the number, less seriously they are taken, so most time we continued in class. My teacher, a very strict one (and a comunist), said: "we will remain here, this way if there is indeed a bomb, the ones who didnt come to school today are going to be the main suspects".
Yeah IRA bomb-scares when I was a kid, although Im inclined to think they were mainly caused by students wanting to avoid particually awful lessons.
Leifmk
Deity
Oh yeah, we had lots of accidental fire alarms, especially when I was in secondary school. (The fact that there was a lot of construction work as the school was being expanded may have had something to do with that.) Funny thing is that in one entire wing (the one with the wood/metal shop and general crafts rooms) you couldn't hear the alarm at all. This was never fixed during my three years there.
azzaman333
meh
Hmm... I guess a bomb threat would be a good way to get out of school, not that I would risk my education to get out of a single day of school though.
Bamspeedy
CheeseBob
Never had one when I was at school, but have had one at work. Some truck driver was mad thinking it took us too long to unload his truck, so he called in the bomb threat from his cell phone after he left the place. Hottest day of the year and we all had to sit outside for a couple hours while the bomb squad from the nearby army base searched the place. Of course, he made the other truck drivers take even longer to get their trucks unloaded...
I've heard of other bomb threats in nearby schools and one in a nearby factory (who was calling around making the threats to several businesses in the area). In most cases they eventually catch the person who did it.
I've heard of other bomb threats in nearby schools and one in a nearby factory (who was calling around making the threats to several businesses in the area). In most cases they eventually catch the person who did it.
Jawz II
Oh Dear
Hey I know a way to stop phony bomb threats; A real bomb.
Hear me out, if someone would happen to bring a bomb to the school and blow the crap out of it at night when it's empty, I bet there would be no more threats.
Hear me out, if someone would happen to bring a bomb to the school and blow the crap out of it at night when it's empty, I bet there would be no more threats.
Perfection
The Great Head.
I've a had a couple. Never took them seriously.
Shadylookin
master debater
once in middle school someone found a note. In high school they never happened because they had a policy of not letting the kids leave the classrooms. They justified keeping the thought of keeping us stuck in the rooms with potentially active explosives by claiming that someone might call in a bomb threat so we would evacuate the school and then they'd start shooting at people leaving. So calling in a bomb threat would just make you stuck in class with no restroom breaks until police dogs sniffed out the entire place.
the risk is minimal. until you can show that more than 1% of said bomb threats result in actual bombs being exploded or whatever, I think I can safely say the risk is minimal.
Its the human condition to look at risk from a totally skewed perspective and then second guess themselves later on when something actually happens.
Firstlady
Sunlight's Breaking
There were bomb threats at my school three days in a row last week.
We now have to use the "buddy system" to go to the restroom.
We now have to use the "buddy system" to go to the restroom.
