What happened at Starpoint today?

kspeer · Senior Member

What happened at Starpoint today?

starlight · Veteran Member

I saw that on TV, but have not heard anything after that. They just said they were dismissing early, not that they had a bomb threat.

kspeer · Senior Member

The whole story is out now. A 16 yr.old girl left a written threat in a girl's bathroom about a bomb. The school brought in (it sounds like) 3 or 4 bomb sniffing dogs from various agencies to comb the school for explosives. The girl has been arrested.

I just think the whole thing is so sad. She probably didn't understand the magnitude of what she has done before she did it. She just cost the taxpayers mucho bucks! Now her parents will have to pay a lawyer for her defense (plus fines). She has scarred her permanent record (so cliche, but true), she will have to go to the alternative school, and now everyone will consider her in the same class as Tim McVeigh. I hope it was worth it!

Nitrogen_Widget · Senior Member

according to the paper she also pulled a fire alarm earlier. She probably did it to get even. However, at 16 i'm sure she fully understood what she was doing & what would happen if she was caught. Sucks to be her.

kspeer · Senior Member

So now today, there were 2 different copycat bomb threats at local schools. WTF?

Mindcrime · Guru

Guess the phone taps didn't work, huh?

Jim Sacco · Senior Member

I heard that she wanted to get caught. Apparently this 16 year old does not want to be at school, but wants to be home with her boyfriend.

If this is true, it is sad that they think this way.

starlight · Veteran Member

Yes it is sad they think this way, anything to get out of school. They have no idea what happens when the make these threats. Maybe schools should teach this every year, this is what happens when a school calls 911. The schools have to make that call even if they think it's a hoax. The number of emergency personnel this ties up has to be huge. I heard there were 4 bomb hoax incidents yesterday.

Nitrogen_Widget · Senior Member

When I went to starpoint, they made it very clear what happens when someone pulls a fire alarm as a prank. They made it point to let students know that if emergency people are at the school for a false alarm they can't be somewhere else if there is a real emergency. How it was a crime & how you could be fined, ect.

I can't remember if they got into the fuel wasted and things like that. but then gas cost less than a dollar a gallon then.

Unless this girl is mentally deficient in a clinical sence, no one can tell me she didn't fully understand what she was doing. Especially since she should of been given a good talking to after pulling the fire alarm.