Good ol' Bomb Threats

[DeToxRox]

My school, Oakland University, is closed tomorrow because of bomb threats written in several bathrooms on campus. You gotta' love nutjobs. Now the FBI is investigating.

Has anyone else had experiences like this?

[lighthousekeeper]

My school, Oakland University, is closed tomorrow because of bomb threats written in several bathrooms on campus. You gotta' love nutjobs. Now the FBI is investigating.

Has anyone else had experiences like this?

it happened while i was at rutgers ~12 years ago.

yeah i agree that those damn overreacting school officials are nutjobs too.

[Greyroofoo]

I had two bomb threats while i was in high school.

The first time was because some guy got thrown out of class for being an asshat, and he phoned in the bomb threat through a pay phone in the school cafeteria. Everybody in school had to go sit in the Junior High gym for 4 hours until they bused us home.

The kid was originally got a jail sentence but his rich asshat dad got him out of it.

[MrBug708]

I had a bomb threat in High School. Basically moved us to the field for about an hour before letting us back in our classrooms. Then they found a package they didn't know so we got locked in our classrooms and we were allowed to leave if our parents came or we had a car. The package ended up being just a gift to a teacher that was supposed to be a surprise. It was just delivered on the wrong day

[JetsIn06]

My high school got two of them.

One of them was from a kid who was a friend of a friend. Turned out he had a test and didn't wanna take it. They caught him (he did it from a computer and they tracked his IP) and his parents sent him to military school.

[CU Tiger]

Man we had dozens in the 4 years I was in high school
...
i am actually shocked at the we had 1 or 2 crowd, I thought everyone had 4-5/year....

College, same thing in the dorms either a bomb threat or a fire alarm pull every night during finals....

[DeToxRox]

Oakland University canceled Monday classes and activities after graffiti messages threatening a campus attack were found scrawled in three men’s restrooms.
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The Auburn Hills campus is expected to reopen at 7 a.m. Tuesday.

The threats were found Saturday in three buildings — O’Dowd Hall, Oakland Center and Kresge Library. The buildings form a triangle in the heart of the West campus.

Students spotted the first two messages; the third was discovered when police officers scoured campus buildings Saturday night.

After the third find, officials canceled today's activities and closed the campus through Monday. The university’s dorms stayed open, though students were encouraged to go home if possible, said Michelle Moser, a university spokeswoman.

The messages referred to possible on-campus attacks on "4/14" -- or April 14 -- said University Police Chief Samuel Lucido.

He declined to release the content of the messages, citing the ongoing investigation, but he said the threats didn’t target anyone specifically.

"We’re convinced it’s the same person" who left all three threats, Lucido said.

Jayson Moss, a political science major, said it’s disturbing.

"I’m trying not to get super alarmed or anything," said Moss, 27, of Bloomfield Hills. "I’m glad they’re erring on the safe side."

Similar messages were found over the weekend at Saint Xavier University in Chicago. That campus is shut down indefinitely.

According to a statement released by Saint Xavier president Judith Dwyer, two graffiti messages were found April 5 and April 10. One read, "Be prepared to die on 4/14."

This week marks the anniversary of the April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech University massacre, during which a gunman killed 32 people and injured at least 20 more before killing himself.

Ashley Fairless, who is majoring in elementary education at Oakland University, said the threats shouldn’t be taken lightly.

"It scares me," said Fairless, 20, of St. Clair County’s Riley Township. "Something really could happen. They needed to take action."

The three buildings in which the messages were found are popular with students, she said, especially the Oakland Center, where students surf the Internet, buy food and mingle.

Like other Oakland students, Fairless received an e-mail Saturday night after the first message was found. The e-mail, sent by university officials, said that police were investigating a message that "may be interpreted by some as being somewhat disturbing, but it is quite vague and contains no specific threat of any kind."

Lucido said the subsequent messages were worrisome enough to warrant closing the campus down as a precaution.

For John Locklear, the threats bring to mind both the Virginia Tech massacre and the February shooting at Northern Illinois University, in which six people died.

Locklear, a 23-year-old journalism major from Clinton Township, said he has a project due Monday in preparation for upcoming finals, but he won’t be coming to campus to turn it in until he feels safe.

"I don’t want to go to school and worry about being shot in the back," he said. "I’m more worried about people being safe than I am about my studies."

The university is keeping faculty and students updated through its Web site at www.oakland.edu.

[JeeberD]

When I lived in Germany, we got them all the time. And this was during the Cold War, mind you, so they took that stuff seriously. Eight times out of ten they sent us home...

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

I had a bomb threat written on my bathroom wall at home last night. My wife denied doing it. I locked down the bedroom as a precaution.

[wade moore]

Man we had dozens in the 4 years I was in high school
...
i am actually shocked at the we had 1 or 2 crowd, I thought everyone had 4-5/year....

College, same thing in the dorms either a bomb threat or a fire alarm pull every night during finals....
Yeah, that's not normal.


When I worked at the Norfolk Naval Station right next to the carriers, etc. they used to get bomb threats from sailors' wives trying to delay deployments. We would get on lock-down while they investigated, etc.

[Pyser]

im in the camp that had at least 10. all in high school. most of us just went home in the beginning, but by the end it only took them 20 minutes to "check" the school before sending us all back in

[TazFTW]

I had 1 in intermediate and we were told to grab our stuff and follow our teachers to this field that borders the school. We waited there until school was officially out and then were told to head home.

There were 1 or 2 during high school where we were led to the football field and then got the okay to go back to class an hour or two later.

[Passacaglia]

We had more than one in high school. The rumor going around was that they were faked by the school, in order to check our lockers for drugs.

[lordscarlet]

None. Ever. Where the hell did you guys go to school? Didn't kids just beat each other up and bring guns like a normal high school?