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Schools getting bomb threats again; Brookline High evacuated
By adamg on Thu, 04/14/2016 - 8:20am
Schools across the area are once again getting bomb threats. Among them: Brookline High School, where students are being evacuated and the Boston Police bomb squad has been requested.
A similar round of calls was made on Monday.
WFXT has more.
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Impossible to do anything about this?
I'm out of my depth here, but is it simply impossible to do anything about these? Assuming that they're not 100% randomly and spontaneously originating from different individuals, different equipment, etc.
Yes, it is nearly impossible
The FBI might be able to track down some.
Our quasi police state is really just for show, and lower insurance premiums. Lawsuits play a far bigger role in cams everywhere and security guards, detail cops. If someone is intent on creating mayhem and reasonably competent, they can.
Impossible to do anything?
I find it hard to believe that it's impossible to do anything about bomb threats.
First of all, bomb threats are not the least bit cute, or funny.
Secondly, the person(s) responsible for such pranks could be responsible for the death of somebody; a person could drop dead of a heart attack, a stroke or possibly an asthma attack, or whatever, due to the havoc that bomb threats can wreak.
Thirdly, if the offender(s) are apprehended, they stand a good chance of going to some sort of correctional institute for awhile, and it would serve them right.
I still remember the day that somebody called a bomb scare in the high school I was attending, back during the late 1960's, during my Sophomore year. The entire high school was evacuated, it started out like a regular fire drill, we were eventually told to assemble in the school gymnasium, and, by one busload of kids at a time, we were sent out to sit on our respective buses for afew hours, instead of being sent home, because, had the school administration sent us home, that would've increased the chance of a recurrence. After afew hours, we resumed classes.
Fairly shortly thereafter, the perpetrator of the bomb scare, a 14 or 15 year old Freshman at our high school, was apprehended, and sentenced to the Billerica House of Correction, where he spent the better part of a year.
It served the kid right.
Phones are more advanced now
Could be a kid trying to get out of class.
But its probably not that hard for someone with bad intent to set up a robo call or automated call, even from outside the country. After all, I've been getting the same robo calls, almost daily, for YEARS about important credit information.
Much cheaper and low- risk for the bad guys than having to build an actual bomb.
We will need to figure out a better protocol than evacuating for every scare.
Time to stop reporting these
I woke up this morning to Fox 25 listing out the schools that had received this "threat". Sounded like a snow day cancellation list. "Acton, Arlington, Boxford, Brookline...." Their twitter feed was even more dramatic.
Which is of course EXACTLY the type of coverage the kids doing this are looking for. Time to stop giving them the satisfaction.
The trick is to implement severe penalties for kids who DO
engage in this kind of a prank! I've expressed my opinion on this board already, but I'll say it again: Bomb threats/scares are not funny or cute, plus it's dangerous and irresponsible, and could cause the death of somebody.
That being said, I believe that severe penalties/punishments should be given to kids who engage in this kind of a prank, first because it should be against the law to make bomb threats, and secondly, because of the potentially deleterious consequences of that kind of a prank.
Having said all of the above, ignoring the kids when they pull something like a bomb scare/threat is not the way to go.
Gee
Tell us what you really think and feel!
Not sure where you've been this winter, but these calls go out in batches to a different set of high schools each time. My son's school got one in an earlier round. They reacted in a sane and logical way, but a lot of people got massively twisted knickers over the school's utter failure to BE VERY AFRAID and panic and evacuate the school over it.
It does not appear to be kids or students doing this. It might be one person. It might be multiple persons. However, it is highly unlikely that the perpetrator(s) have anything to do with any of the schools involved. Too many schools over far too wide an area of Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey.
In other words, you could threaten to publically execute kids who call in prank bomb threats and it would not do any good whatsoever. This is massively different from "failing freshman foils final".
http://www.wcvb.com/news/more-schools-get-robocall...
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/04/13/new-jersey-...
http://www.heraldcourier.com/news/feds-grant-waive...
Nobody, including myself, is saying that kids who pull
such a dangerous, stupid and irresponsible prank should be publicly executed, or executed for it....period! Not withstanding what I've said before, creating a bomb scare/threat is a criminal act that's punishable by a jail sentence. The kid at my high school who perpetrated the bomb scare ended up serving a term in Juvenile detention for the better part of a year, and well he should have. Bomb scares can wreak a ton of havoc, and have deleterious consequences,. to boot. What's there not to get, and what's the purpose of all your stupid-assed sarcasm? Cool it will ya, SwirlyGrrl? It's not necessary, plus it's rather sickening, to boot.
I'll also add, that, no matter who the bomb scares were made by, the ones who make them shouldn't get away with it, and I hope they get punished.
You miss the point again
This isn't "kids playing pranks".
Someone is intentionally robocalling multiple schools in multiple states on multiple occasions. That is why the FBI is involved.
Please read up on the context of this incident before you comment again.
Nobody cares about your high school or apocryphal tales of bomb threats in the 1960s - especially not the person doing this. All they care about is using security concerns to wreak havoc on a large scale.
Have they called your son's high school yet? I'll be not.
Hey, listen, SwirlyGrrl!!
First of all, I have no sons, or daughters.
Secondly, my youngest nephew goes to Brookline High School.
Thirdly, it seems to me that you're willfully ignorant of the fact that creating a bomb scare/threat is a criminal act that can not only wreak havoc and cause the death of somebody, but it's also an act that's punishable by imprisonment of the perpetrator, no matter who's doing it.
Nobody cares what you think either, SwirlyGrrl. The fact that the kid who did the bomb scare at my high school, even though it was back in the 60's and got punished for it was a good thing, because he never pulled that sort of stunt again after his stint in Juvenile detention.
Also, in those days, people didn't know other security measures, so they evacuated kids from the school, or other schools where bomb scares took place, to make doubly sure that nobody got hurt or killed, in case there was a bomb. I'm sure that nowadays, people are more knowledgeable about other measures besides evacuating kids during bombscures, but I'm telling you that back in those days, people didn't.
Whether they were adults or kids, more effort needs to be made to investigate, and to catch the perpetrators and punish them, regardless of who's doing this sort of thing.
Here's something else, SwirlyGrrl? How you do know that the robocalled of all these bomb scares/threats to various Bay State high schools wasn't a kid who was extraordinarily skillful on the computer and in making such robocalls?
I zeroed in on this thread with my opinions, whether you (or anybody else, for that matter) like(s) it or not!!
Keep it up Miki
I'm sure you have more to say about the subject.
:) Why---THANK you, SwirlyGrrl!!
:-)!!
Don't worry, SwirlyGrrl! I WILL keep on keeping on, if I see fit. Have a great day!! :=)
creating a bomb scare/threat
Must be why the FBI are involved. Ya think?
I'm just glad that my son didn't lose any school time to this nonsense, as his school handled it rationally.
Mmmmmm....
No kidding! :-)
So far, my nephew hasn't lost any school time either, sweetie, since his high school's administration has also handled the bomb scare rationally.
Even though the bomb scare at the high school which I attended occurred a long time ago, we didn't lose that much school time. They wanted to search the school to make sure that there wasn't a bomb in there, plus they didn't send us home, because they knew that it would only increase the chance of another bomb scare happening. No other bomb scares occurred in that high school after that kid who did that was punished. That says something right there, imho.
Frankly, I couldn't care less about your son, either, Swirly, anymore than you care about me or any of my family. Take that!
sigh...
A round of calls WAS made please
This isn't Boston.com
Ouch
Fixed.
sorry
I guess I'm something of a crank
thanks for the fix
def not Boston.com!