about those bombs

[Miss_Lulu]

there are two high schools in my county.
north laurel high, and sout laurel high.
today south laurel high's students got sent up becos someone
left a not in the front office saying, and i quote, "you thought columbine was bad, you just wait"
and then appearently not even 15 minutes after they sent south laurel home, an announcement came on the intercom at north laurel stating that all students should report to their classrooms immediately.

i go to north high. i was in lunch when this announcement was made.
i've never seen so many people panic in my life.
yes we've had bomb threat drills before. or even bomb threats where they grouped us all together in the gym. but today they sent us all the way back to the football field, about a mile and a half behind the school.

north laurel high had a real life bomb threat, that they considered was so dangerous the moved us. kids were panic-ing. teachers were trying to get everyone together, were they could call roll and see if anyone was missing. i myself had a severe panic attack and had teachers making sure i didnt get over heated.

topic: have you ever had a school shooting or real bomb threat at your school?

[I Took the Red Pill]

Way, way back, my elementary school got some anthrax threat and everyone had to be evacuated.

[LunarWeaver]

We did have one, and they moved us to the football field too. Parents went psycho and dragged most of the kids out of school for the day. I was never scared or anything, though. It does make me wonder why people do such things.

I mean, if you think about it, if somebody was serious about doing lots of damage and killing lots of people, they wouldn't leave you a warning and extract everybody from the building. It's like calling somebody up and going, "Hi, I'm a serial killer, and I'll be killing you next Friday. Yeah, so you just look forward to that." I never really believed them when they would make a threat and let the whole world know.

[Quindiana Jones]

Not at my school. But I was in a swimming pool in France and it got tear-gassed. I didn't know though, because I couldn't understand French well enough and I'd never experienced tear gas before. 'Twas great fun!

[Faris]

I can't remember which situation made my school do this (either because of the shooting in Virginia or an actual threat), but near the end of the year last term the VP locked all the entrance doors except the front doors, of course, at 9 every day. It started with the side doors always being locked. Which made coming in at 7:45 every day a little more annoying.

Another situation: there was this girl, she goes somewhere else now, who would tell me "If I ever tell you to leave the school, leave." every now and then. I brushed it off, I knew she wouldn't do such a thing and she hasn't. If she did, I would be able to report her immediately and the cop station isn't even 5 minutes away from the school

[Rase]

Last year someone told some friends via MySpace he was going to shoot up my school. Once I got there and saw all of the cops around I was like "Uh, huh?" Some cops were telling people to go home, so I stayed for one period and then left and took my friend home. We hung out the rest of the day, it was pretty sweet. Turns out the guys MySpace had been hacked by some friend of his in Pennsylvania (we were in California), so yeah. Got out of school for a day, so that was cool.

[Marshall Banana]

Ehh, I remember these things happening when I was a student at South. On one occasion a teacher nearly hit me with a door he slammed open and ran down the hall in a panic, while my homeroom teacher didn't seem worried about the current situation even a little. All of us students were sent to the football field or told to run into the school to be piled into the science labs numerous times.

I wouldn't worry too much, if I were you. South Laurel High is plagued with ridiculous drama, but nothing terrible has happened so far; I don't know how it is with North.

[rubah]

Not to my knowledge. We had drug searches a couple of times, but no threats like that.

[oddler]

We had quite a few bomb threats in my 9th and 10th grade years. Nothing was ever found and we usually went back inside if the school day wasn't half over yet.

[Renmiri]

At my work we got evacuated for bombs like 5 times... The first time I went back for my purse and took the elevator down (idiots had kept it on).

The 5th time we were all jokey about it... Until they actually found a crude bomb

[Jimsour]

Last bomb scare I remember was when I was attending college and it was a very rainy monday morning, half an hour into the class when we where told to evacuate the building. The college was in the city center so the entire block of buildings/shops was evacuated. Back in the day it was a regular occurance.

[Ouch!]

My high school went on lockdown for a bit because two armed robbers were out and about somewhere nearby. Of course, this happened after I'd already left for college. D=

[Tallulah]

The worst thing I've seen happen around a school was my friend's kid sister get run over after her first day at nursery. I was waiting at a bus stop with my mum after school to go shopping, and the car just hit her. It happened so fast I thought someone had thrown a dummy out of the car. The girl died later in hospital.

Though we did have someone at my secondary school, a couple of years above me, who was in a gang, actually murder someone from a 'rival' school. My cousin knew the boy who got murdered from her primary school That was sickening.

[Peegee]

Yeah we've had bomb threats in my school. I used to think my school was pretty nice, but as I reached the higher grades I realised that the school is pretty lousy. Kids would call in bomb threats to get out of class, for example. One time, a NBA athlete went to our school and refereed a game. He walked by the bleachers and a girl ran up and leaped on him, bear hugging him until she was dragged away.

We have good students, but if you checked our record, you'll find stupid upper middle class whiny 'emo' kids everywhere, and spoiled brats amuck.

God I hate my high school.

[Psychotic]

Me, a friend and the military kid (every school has one) talked about blowing up our school once. My friend was going to make a special potion out of dandelions that would make us all sick so we wouldn't have to go to school that day. Then we got bored and played Pokemon.