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More bomb threats tonight; Jordan's Furniture in Natick evacuated, SWAT team responds to Woburn apartment complex
By adamg on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 10:46pm
Natick Police report the management evacuated the Jordan's Furniture and IMAX theater around 7:45 tonight after a staffer at the theater "received a live phone call stating that there was a bomb and an armed gunman inside the theater."
In fact, there was neither a bomb nor a gunman in the theater and both the store and the theater re-opened around 9 p.m. - after police swept the building.
The Natick Police Department is aware of other hoax threats made against locations in other communities in Massachusetts tonight. This incident is actively under investigation, and no determination has been made in regards to any connection among the incidents.
Meanwhile, Woburn Police report:
Shortly before 7 p.m. Friday, Woburn Police received a live phone call from a male party stating that he had harmed his mother in an apartment complex on Westgate Drive and that other people may be harmed as well.
Woburn Police responded and, out of an abundance of caution, the Northeastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council SWAT Team was activated.
The building was searched by police. Officers knocked on doors and made sure that all citizens were safe. No suspect or victims were found at the location, and police have determined that this was a hoax call.
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Ok, can someone please
Ok, can someone please educate me today, sincerely? Is it impossible for authorities to trace a caller if it comes up restricted or is blocked in some way by the caller? How advanced is the technology? Seems like these bomb threats are becoming viral.
VoIP
Make the call over the Internet and it becomes harder to trace.
No good answer
It's a social problem. When a bomb goes off the authorities in that area are blamed for not preventing it, irrespective of their best judgement or actions at the time. If a school of business was socially and legally held harmless if they ignored a real bomb threat these sorts of things would be easier to dismiss.
Bomb scares are the classic case of CYA. That's unlikely to change no matter how many hoaxes are called in.
Question
Does anybody know how often they find bombs, etc. when there are these threats phoned in?
Or do actual bombers ever call in the threats? Since the 1970s, I mean?
It almost seems like the bomb threat is the new bomb.
I think just 1 swirrly
back in the 1970s. I just went to a conference on this where a guy called in a bomb threat where there were actual bombs. I can't remember if it was a workplace revenge plot or something?
The IRA would also call in threats for actual bombings.
The IRA would also call in threats for actual bombings.
The IRA would also call in threats for actual bombings.
Yes. They had a thing set up with Scotland Yard with code words to verify. They would call it in early, place gets evacuated, boom. Worked, mostly. Problem came when the splinter groups got into the act and went crazy.
I remember a quote from a London bobby from one of the London Islam bombings, went like, "They didn't even give us notice"
Here you go
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoofing_attack#Caller_ID_spoofing
Short story shorter....
Yes it is impossible to trace.
Masking IP address is a very easy thing to do, and these calls are all made through the internet.
The technology keeps changing and becoming more advanced,
and there are people who are skillful enough and resourceful enough so that they have the capacity to really keep up with the latest advances in computer technology and really use it to their full advantage. The FBI should get involved with investigating such occurrences before they really go to far and have deleterious consequences.
Also, bomb threats are something to be taken seriously and not to be ignored, because the perpetrators need to be exposed, again and again, by the media, in order to make them stop.