So my school got locked down today...

[CanadaMan]

I got an answer out of them after, but I think the situations between a bomb threat and someone riding around the school on a bike with a gun (who was long gone by the time we even locked down) is different.

I agree that on a bomb threat, it's better to not have mass panic but as we already were on lockdown and no one was getting out regardless, and there was really NO immediate danger to students locked indoors, I think it might have made sense to tell someone, instead of letting a bunch of students speculate on what happened. (We actually had more interesting ideas than the news, who said the man had come into the school, fire shots into the ceiling wild-west style, and then left?).

More so, the grades 10, 11, and 12s were all good with it as we were locked down for bomb threats, stabbings, etc. before. But I feel kinda bad for the grade 9's who's third day ever of high school ends like that. It's unfortunate.

 

[JonathanD]

We were doing a show up in Red Hook New York and we went to a nearby diner for lunch. We were sitting at the table and we ordered our drinks and everyone starting staring and whispering.

I see my drummer with his hand over his mouth trying to hold back the laughs and he points at the wall and there is drawing of a serial rapist that looks EXACTLY like me.

So I get all paranoid and ask for my check for my soda and ending eating somewhere else.

like this?

 

[iamlowsound]

You live in Winnipeg and you are surprised about a gun threat at school?

lowsound

 

[shawn-o]

You live in Winnipeg and you are surprised about a gun threat at school?

lowsound

Haha, oh boy.

I heard about this on the news yesterday. Kinda scary that theres already a lockdown less than one week into school.

 

[Nappa]

We had a bomb threat at our school a few years ago. Someone wrote that is was going to happen at a certain time. The administrators let us leave early if we wanted to. Then we had a mercury spill in the Biology room and we had a lock down while they were cleaning it up. It was 10 minutes until the end of day when the mercury was spilled.

 

[CanadaMan]

Haha, oh boy.

I heard about this on the news yesterday. Kinda scary that theres already a lockdown less than one week into school.

Haha, don't worry, the news has it totally wrong. The dude didn't even go into the school, he threatened some kids and rode off.

But yeah, that's absolutely pathetic I think.

 

[armywalaby]

There was a bomb threat some years ago at the high school on the south end of town, they caught the girls who did it because they called it in on the payphone right next to the front office.

 

[Visirale]

and here I thought that stuff only happened in the US...

US schools would do the same thing, btw.

No, US schools shoot back .

 

[Surprise Panda!]

Was the "white male" ugly??!!

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

No, US schools shoot back .

I thought that was only downtown LA, or maybe ive watched the naked gun films too often


Better safe than sorry tho! I remember when a bomb threat was sent into our school. We found out about it the following day, the school hadnt done anything, they just assumed it would be a hoax, thankfully, they were right. But hardly the point!

 

[Rattman]

I remember once finding myself spread eagle on a parking lot in Norfolk, Va.. staring up at the huge and wrong end of a loaded, 12-guage shotgun a Marine had trained on me.. that was a drag... they always were a little jumpy on that NATO base anyway.

 

[Dr Stankface]

I thought that was only downtown LA

You've obviously never been to Alabama.

 

[CanadaMan]

Was the "white male" ugly??!!

No idea, he never got close enough to the school for anyone to check

No but seriously, whatever, it's cool. I just thought it was funny that they made a mandatory lockdown for 2 hours over that, but not a peep was heard over 2 back to back bomb threats.

 

[moomoocajoo]

Bah, our school once called riot police in cause all the neds (or chavs, w/e) all brought in weapons (knives, bats, bricks etc) and were literally threating to start a sort of turf war.

School didn't close and 5th period english went on as planned

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

We had that happen too, being a small town school there were people from numerous small towns that went to it. The Alyth folk kicked off at the Blair folk and madness followed. Good times!

Our high school was dubbed "Battlefield High" by a number of national papers when I was in my final year , nothing was sacred, the scum were even putting hammerheads in snowballs!

 

[CanadaMan]

... That's a wicked good idea.