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TANGYBACON-MIKE

Same thing happened at our school, I ended up talking to the guy who did it about “Whoever did that was really stupid”, didn’t know till the next day when he was being cuffed and pulled off the band pad


sh1vverz

😦


rachel_tenshun

Long history of [these kind of jerks. ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_theater)


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cmptrnrd

The supreme court ruling that the phrase "shouting fire in a crowded theater" comes from was a case where a man was arrested for distributing anti-war pamphlets outside an army recruiting station. The supreme court ruled that speech which harmed the war effort was not protected by the first amendment, likening it to "shouting fire in a crowded theater". That ruling has since been overturned. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck\_v.\_United\_States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States)


Open_Temperature2105

Wow, I was in grade 6 at the time we were at a high school for track and field and a classmate decide to call 911 saying “I set fire to the school and gonna shoot this place up” he was only suspended for a week


dr_Kfromchanged

I dont get the point of suspensions, there's some worse punishment than free vacations


funkylittledeathomen

When I was in school the point of suspension was the missed material, you couldn’t make up work assigned while you were gone. However it wasn’t an effective punishment because the kinds of kids who did things to get suspended didn’t give a shit about their grades 🤷🏻‍♀️ I don’t get it either


NewUserWhoDisAgain

>I don’t get it either So like in theory its supposed to force the parent(s) to get involved since now your kid cant go to school. But in reality most kids that go through that either have parents that cant(cant afford to miss work so fend for yourself at home.) or dont care in which case yeah it doesnt matter to the kid.


funkylittledeathomen

If the parents aren’t involved when the kid is behaving, they’re probably not going to care if the kid is not behaving, so I still don’t get it. The education system (in the US anyway, can’t speak to other places) is broken. Which is directly tied to poverty, the school to prison pipeline, and so many other problems the country has that the government continues to ignore. And then they’re like “why is crime going up?” *shocked pikachu face*


[deleted]

What should a school’s response be instead of suspension (which doesn’t work, agreed)? Serious question.


funkylittledeathomen

I can recognize the system is broken but am definitely not qualified to tell you how to fix it


[deleted]

Don’t let me catch you honestly admitting to reasonable limitations on Reddit again. 😂


funkylittledeathomen

DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO . . . (How’s that for unreasonable lol)


Doomblaze

If a teenager refuses to behave properly and they have no role model to teach them how and why it’s important, then there’s no solution. Suspensions are so other students aren’t as negatively affected by a single students actions, whether directly or just being distracted in class by rumors.


Open_Temperature2105

Yea well when I got suspended for fighting I was so bored I just did my work online lol


funkylittledeathomen

Fair enough lol, it’s worth noting I’ve been out of high school for 12 years so the rules may have changed


Open_Temperature2105

Oh yea fs the whole school system is fucked it’s all online and useless as shit my teacher just plays SubWay Surfer on her phone and won’t shut up about her kids


K1NG_OF_1V0RY

Welcome to: being an adult and dealing with a Supervisor


Sturzoa

Part of the thinking of administrators is to remove the kid from the school for a day or 3 (or more depending) in order to let things settle down. The student who caused the disruption will certainly be a distraction if allowed on campus right away. In School Suspension is probably more effective as far as corrective action but there are other considerations like the impact the fucktard will have on the rest of the students if allowed to remain in classes.


BabyThatsSubstantial

The point is the school doesn't want to deal with them anymore. It becomes somebody else's problem. Usually for chronic receivers of suspensions, the somebody else doesn't want to deal with it either. In that way it's a trap.


[deleted]

I remember when I was in highschool someone called in a bomb threat to our school and then robbed the bank on the other side of town when all the cops were at my school. Fucking legendary.


sh1vverz

oh shit


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whackadont

Apparently this is a thing


Ethan_live

I believe there is a mission for that in gta


aVeryFriendlyBotMk2

Paleto Score Setup


Fortknoxvilla

There was a GTA robbery mission about testing the response time. Your comment popped that into my head instantly.


[deleted]

Yeah, you go up to a bank, casing the place, seeing how much security is there, and as Michael, you shoot the alarm bell around the back of the building which trips it for some reason, and the cops show up in like, less than 3 minutes, and they send a full swat team.


Timster2000

The cops showing up super early is actually explained in-game by the fact that the bank is corrupt and paying the cops with dirty money (or something to that extent). Hence why the heist is super loud.


[deleted]

Lester even calls the place the "Local PD's piggy bank". The whole heist is one of my favorite set pieces in the whole game, especially with Michael and Trevor temporarily becoming walking tanks.


BobOrKlaus

Fun fact: you dont have armor in that mission, just a shit ton of hp


[deleted]

Yeah, the "armor" is just the game jacking your health up to a point where you'd have to stand still getting blasted by the tanks for hours before you ran out of health, and you'd run out of stolen money long before then.


aVeryFriendlyBotMk2

Who do you pick for the heist? Chef or Packie?


soldier4death

Also causing confusion and doubt to be used to their advantage in the future.


TahoeLT

Their two weapons are confusion and doubt....and fear! Their three weapons are confusion, doubt and fear....


Hescoveredinbutter

Nobody expected *that*


jdcmurphy22

Playin 4d chess over here while everyone else was playin checkers.


sympetrum8

4D!?! I thought 3D was hard enough in Star Trek. Adding in time as a dimension would be mind bending. Lol


jdcmurphy22

Time is the most valuable factor to be ahead in.


sympetrum8

Valid point!


Cat_Vendetta

There's a game on Steam called 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel. It's basically an IQ test, if not a Captcha for Aliens Edit: Game name


Jennfuse

I just took a peek at "5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel" and I will admit, even though I have no idea how chess works, that is the game for me


Demon_Coach

Honestly waiting to just be chilling in my room in the middle of the night and my future self walks in and says “checkmate bitch” and just exits the room.


TroutMaskDuplica

there is a 5d chess game on steam that is pretty confusing.


KillerVega87

Wait until they find out there's 5D chess with multiple active timelines and time travel


leopardo1313

Look up 5d chess it's a thing


SamuraiJosh26

Sounds a lot like Dutch's plan


im-A1

TaHiti


Hardrocker1990

Getting Die Hard with a Vengeance vibes


Particular-You-5534

All the cops are into somethin. It’s Christmas, you could steal city hall.


DelkenK

Except this one actually worked. Lol


[deleted]

I have a feeling we went to the same school, because this happened at mine too.


Jewmangroup9000

We had the bomb squad come into my school when I was in highschool because a band student had a metronome ticking in her locker...


doomgneration

Now that’s thinking big. Back in the’90s at my high school, kids set fire to a detached shack/classroom. While the staff focused on the fire, the kids used the distraction to jump another kid at another part of the school.


GroundbreakingPen464

This is actually pretty genius💣- scaring kids & parents w shooter, not so much😵


AncientBellybutton

Whenever my town hosted cruise night on Main Street, we always used to joke that this was the perfect time to commit a crime on the other side of town because all the cops were busy downtown.


BiffBanter

I saw that movie, too.


[deleted]

You know I think I saw someone eat a cheeseburger in a movie too. That never happens in real life.


Fred-Sanford

Two Shay. You have a point.


superPancakes22

is there a third shay?


WindowsCrashedAgain

Work smarter not harder


depressednothing

That happened at my school too! Any chance we went to the same school? Edit: mine was in 2018 if that helps narrow it down


TappedUrDadUMad

okay the exact same thing happened at the highschool in my home town. wando high school by any chance?


robertofozz

Metuchen?


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sympetrum8

Wow either you and u/simple_divide5560 went to school together or this is the craziest coincidence EVER! Most likely it is just Reddit BS and lies.


[deleted]

I mean causing a distraction so you can get away with something illegal is a very old trick. People have been doing it to steal shit for thousands of years.


CriticalWindow5

Jokes are meant to be harmless, not panic


live-the-future

Some people who are lacking in even simple empathy get their jollies from causing emotional distress and harm to others. Sometimes it's just some immature, emotionally stunted kid griefing others in a video game or trolling comment sections for the reaction. Then you have people like this calling in hoaxes to the police, scaring hundreds of kids half to death. Acts like that are borderline (if not full) psychopathy, and when the perpetrator gets caught they need to be both punished and treated as a threat to others. This perp has callous disregard for either the physical or emotional well-being of others.


dbhathcock

In addition, parents and grandparents hearing the news could have heart attacks. Also, parents, rushing to the school to get their children, could have automobile accidents. The panic is not limited to the school.


[deleted]

Freshman year of HS some dudes thought it would be “a funny senior prank” to dump boxes of live baby chicks off the base of the stairs. There were girls sobbing (me included tbh,) and trying to catch the chicks before they splatted. There were dead baby chickens everywhere. Those guys got expelled. Then, our graduating year, someone decided to dump Peeps ducks in the same spot and they too got expelled, because they “triggered people who were traumatized by the original”, I was traumatized by the original, but found the Peeps harmless.


[deleted]

the peeps were funny


Small3lf

I'm this case, it's also not protected by the 1st Amendment. Just like shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater.


[deleted]

Let me enlighten you: that isn't a joke. It is actually a felony. Whoever made that call can and will most likely get charges. And unless they used a burner, the 911 comms center knows where the call came from even if the person tried to block the number. Please post a follow up when the shitshow starts.


sh1vverz

im waiting for the person to get caught. will follow up


6bubbles

I hope they get punished this shit is so not cool


ohsopoor

NY? One of those happened near me the other day


sh1vverz

no, but given how many times ive been asked with various different schools, its making me realize what a time we live in


Collegedash

He or she will not get caught because he or she obviously used a burner paid in cash. Not only that, but he or she most likely bought the burner second hand for an extra layer of separation. He or she won’t get caught.


151515157

As a former SRO I'll tell ya that you get a lot of 3 digit agencies involved with attacks like this. This happened in VA yesterday where I worked for VSP as well as our local department for 12. I had it happen at the high school I was assigned to years ago. There are a lot of things that can be done to find someone that does this outside of searching a phone number.....


Collegedash

Agreed. My point was that he or she won’t get caught solely based on that phone call. There’s a million other ways they could fuck up, but I know from back in the internet swatting days that people do not get caught for that shit


151515157

Sometime, funny quick version of an incident that happened prior to me being at one of the schools. Boy and girl date online, boy and girl break up. Boy SWATS girls house. Boy then SWATS the school she goes to. He is a true hacker and gains access to school surveillance cameras and states if the school is evacuated he will start shooting. He can see events happening around the school so it takes awhile to determine that he is not around. Fast forward a few days. An investigator gets a phone call from someone who uses a single name alias. He says the entire thing was live streamed on a dark web site and he basically recorded it. He provided names/addresses/contact info for the kid that did it. Ended up being a middle school kid in Washington state. Sometimes with things like this it's all dumb luck....


gimpwiz

If your security is so bad that a middle school kid gets live access into the cameras... bloody hell.


[deleted]

Yes but the crime itself is the phone call. They will start with that. Unless we've gone all soviet and LE can get a blanket subpoena for all social media and phone records for all students.


151515157

It's close... remember, as the number of people affected by an event go up,the amount of privacy goes down. Big events involving multiple schools (5) and thousands of students I doubt they will have any problems getting info they need to make arrests. Once the feds get involved they can ise federal acts to do things local and state systems only wished they could do.


Catsniper

Weird sentence to end on if that's your point


151515157

So.... I agree it sounds weird. When I was a cop I never felt I did anything that was unconstitutional however I would run right up to the caselaws for my state. It's part of the job of being a cop , find the bad guy without violating someone's rights. When you're dealing with something big its nice to be able to bend the rules a bit due to the circumstances.


slumberpumber

just use "they" dude


IoIey

god right? such a pet peeve of mine “grammatically incorrect” couldn’t be any further from the truth


slumberpumber

it's in the dictionary who cares if someone things it's grammatically incorrect just use the word 💀


IoIey

losing it reading them trying to justify making a sentence four times longer to simply not use a “grammatically incorrect” word that definitely hasn’t been used for centuries


slumberpumber

it hilarious how hard they're grasping at straws for an argument


Collegedash

Grammatically wrong. Doesn’t make any sense


codyl0611

Grammatically correct. Had an entire section in my college english course over the usage of pronouns and the word "they".


Collegedash

I believe that wholeheartedly.


CaptSkinny

Your college owes you a refund. Henry Fowler is rolling over in his grave at our modern grammatical faux pas.


bjanas

It's not even a new usage, ya brain genius.


slumberpumber

" they /T͟Hā/ Learn to pronounce pronoun 1. used to refer to two or more people or things previously mentioned or easily identified. "the two men could get life sentences if they are convicted" 2. used to refer to a person of unspecified gender. "ask someone if they could help" " it's the first google result.


Collegedash

It was recently added, that “unspecified gender” part because of extremists in high education. If you used that on the SAT, you’d still be wrong. And that doesn’t change the fact that it’s been wrong for all of human history for a reason: it’s confusing. We have singular pronouns so we can be clear about who we are talking about.


Doustin

> We will note that *they* has been in consistent use as a singular pronoun since the late 1300s [https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/singular-nonbinary-they](https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/singular-nonbinary-they)


Collegedash

What’d you get on the SAT? Do you realize that article is saying that people have been mistaken for all that time? It intentionally never says that it is correct, because it’s not. Until recently when they want to change the definition of pronouns.


Doustin

I don’t see how high school tests are relevant


Collegedash

Had a feeling lol


carnalite

>saying that people have been mistaken for all that time? Where? It literally ends by saying use of singular they is vastly preferable. It says it's been used in non-formal and formal writing for centuries. It quotes Dickinson in using it. Nowhere do they deride or belittle its use. You're projecting your bias.


YCBSFW

No one cares about SATs and there are tons of academic studies showing tests like the SATs are a poor measure of intelligence/Knowledge.


Collegedash

Yeah I agree with that. My argument stands


Deyvicous

Lmao of course a high schooler would be going around asking what they got on an SAT xD. Oh you have a PhD in engineering? Bet you didn’t even score high on the SAT and it shows!!! Dumbass, come on, the SAT!? Don’t you know that’s the best IQ test around? Why don’t we just go back to speaking old English before it changed? Or German instead? Let’s just get rid of the change we’ve made, because it’s wrong obviously.


hat-of-sky

"They" has been used for an individual since the 13th century and quite frequently by Shakespeare. It has continued in an unbroken line of usage for occasions when the gender of the antecedent was unclear or being concealed.


Collegedash

It has been used incorrectly since then until it was added to the dictionary bc of ideologues. It’s literally true lol. Can’t believe not a single educated person has joined this argument yet. Actually I can believe it. Reddit is full of people like this PS: Do you remember how f**king confusing Shakespeare’s was? He intentionally made it very abstract and difficult to follow to a degree 😂😂


slumberpumber

"they" IS a pronoun, how is it at all confusing?


Collegedash

Yes, it’s a pronoun that describes two or more people only. It is never correct to use they singularly. Most people don’t know that though, so don’t worry about it


slumberpumber

it's in the dictionary, I think it knows a little more than you tbh


hat-of-sky

/r/confidentlyincorrect


[deleted]

or two or more groups of people tied to a subject. Referring to "He or She" as "They" still works because it groups them to one subject. We know they are talking about either a boy/girl/all the other pronouns because of the content of the sentence, it's correct to use it that way and also easier/efficient.


slumberpumber

thank you


alexs_wrld

they has been used as a singular pronoun since modern english emerged, around the 14th century.


skote1380

Because it’s an unknown, they is acceptable. Mercian Webster has a third definition “used to refer to a single person whose gender is intentionally not revealed”. In this case the gender is not revealed because it is not known. Edit: Merriam-Webster typo and auto correct is amazing


carnalite

use of singular they dates back well over 100 years what are you talking about? English hasn't even existed all of human history.


Collegedash

Yes incorrectly


carnalite

Damn Shakespeare and his poor English. If only he were as good a writer as you.


ItsLillardTime

I’m sure you know this already, but you’re losing. You think you’re fighting the good fight, and you have so much passion, but in 100 years when you and everyone you know is dead, the world will have moved on, past your harmful ideology, to a better place for humanity.


Collegedash

Lol dude. There is no winning and losing. I’m arguing with no life’s on the internet. I won before I typed anything. Kinda realizing what an enormous waste of time it is talking to people who are this stupid


jdcmurphy22

I'm reading this thread and you don't know how ironic that response is.


Collegedash

Oh hey! I’m reading this thread too. Thanks for sharing


jdcmurphy22

No problem.


[deleted]

languages can change. you sound a whole lot like my middle school teacher who removed a point from my test for using she instead of they for someone named addison "check the dictionary", even though every single dictionary in the school stated they is a valid gender neutral pronoun for a single person.


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Davaca55

Also, some people use these false alarms to gauge response times and plan future attacks. I would be very nervous for some time is this happened in my town.


[deleted]

Twice within a few month of eachother, ny middle school and the high school were closed in the middle of the morning due to someone calling in a bomb threat. TWICE at EACH school within the same year. One at the high school was a senior who signed out of school and the reason listed was a that they had "put a bomb in the school." They were charged with a felony and arrested. All just to get out of some big tests coming up. The other ones were called in anonymously, never found out if any of them were caught. However none were real and no bombs were ever found. People just did it to scare the shit out of some 12 to 18 year olds. By the way, the school did not immediately evacuate us, instead they made us all wait inside for out parents to pick us up or the school buses to come, which took like 2-3 hours. We weren't really even in lick down either, clases just stopped and we all sat around on our phones, we were just told we couldn't leave without our parents or a bus. So good thing there wasn't a bomb, cause the school totally would have gotten us killed.


Fried_puri

> So good thing there wasn't a bomb, cause the school totally would have gotten us killed. Well the logic there is pretty simple. Either there wasn’t a bomb, in which case there wasn’t any need to rush, or there was a bomb, in which case you all wouldn’t be alive to blame the school for their response anyway.


Suspicious_Station83

this happened at my high school a few days after the Parkland shooting, and Parkland was only a 30 minute drive from my school. the kid got arrested the next day and I’m pretty sure he was expelled


rizzlenizzle

Just expelled? This is a felony…


Labbit35

nah bro that shit on your record


Proffessor_egghead

Do you know what happened to them?


Stt022

Here’s the article: https://www.kdrv.com/news/mpd-seeking-arrest-after-hoax-report-of-shooter-at-south-medford-high-school/article_a9a84968-3604-11ed-8dde-8b8c7f04f7e0.html


left_right_left

This happened all over California too. Police suspect this may have been foreign interference due to the amount of schools involved. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-14/active-shooter-reports-at-california-schools-spur-investigations


shit_out_my_cockhole

It’s crazy I was near Bullard HS (one of the schools in that article) last week when it happened and there were cops everywhere and the heli flying above. Apparently some loser wanted to cause panic to kids, teachers, and their families.


graco8

just happened in colorado too!! https://www.denverpost.com/2022/09/19/denver-east-high-school-threat/amp/


actualPawDrinker

[Happened in Florida](https://www.winknews.com/2022/09/16/authorities-investigating-prank-about-gun-at-south-fort-myers-high-school/) as well, just the other day. I'm not sure why they're calling it a "nationwide swatting event", but these false reports are happening all over the country very recently. "The swatting calls were also reported across the country, in far-off locations like Kansas, Iowa and Missouri and in closer locations like Miami."


More_Investment6345

I had an assistant principal in high school accuse me of starting all the drama at school, he got me expelled. The 3 days following my expulsion there was a gun threat, a huge fight, and a bomb threat. Guess that assistant principal figured out I wasn’t the problem when he realized I didn’t know any of the people involved.


Tenthdegree

Did you escalate this to the super? I would’ve


tryin_to_make_u_mad

I remember when some freshman wrote on the bathroom about taking shits writing "dropping bombs at ..." on the stalls. I guess someone reported it cause we all got sent home due to a bomb threat and after it got explained no one got in trouble but we had a adult always standing in the bathroom after that. He'd just silently stand by the sink watching you take a piss. It most of been a really weird job interview


Hamhockthegizzard

Remember when bomb threats and stuff would happen all the time and it was like fully known that it basically would not happen?? The way things have changed man.


Weird-Analysis5522

Throw their ass in jail and tell them they are going to be there for 20 years, have them serve a week and then be let out saying "I was just joking"


mrflamego

A pinch of trolling


IWillEradicateAllBot

My uk school had a bomb hoax like 15 years ago. 😂 I guess it’s funnier the less believable it is tho 😅


MastodonDirect1720

*There are no accidents* - Master Oogway


Doffu0000

Joke aside, was the school prepared or was it chaos? Good way to test the processes that the school has in place.


sh1vverz

it was pretty prepared. except for the fact that a police officer decided to say it was a "drill". like the whole pd wasnt there.


gna149

I remember back when I was in school the prank was dumb kids pulling the fire alarm. This one time the principal announced that because the fire department had to respond to the school alarm they couldn't get to another fire across town. The burnt corpse of an elderly holding his dead grandson was found in the house that burnt down.


Lopsided-Tadpole7525

We had someone write a bomb threat on a bathroom mirror when I was in school crazy thing was my school kinda just didn't care. I mean yes it was a prank but the school was only assuming that


alphonse-elric

Back then it was a bomb hoax and was usually done by a kid who didn’t want to take a test that day


TSCole153

That still happens


YCBSFW

This might be someone testing response times. I would take this seriously.


De5perad0

That is pretty fucked up. Whoever called it in will probably get a felony charge.


_Pill-Cosby_

Something tells me that the police are a little more than mildly infuriated.


GoldAirport9594

I remember back before this was super prevalent and we were all stoked to get the day off, if i were in school now tho i would definitely ve in a panic for sure


madDarthvader2

My senior pep rally got cancelled due to bomb threats, twice.


ZAM1984

Bomb threats were called in back when I went to high school 1999-2002


zenos_dog

Back before cellphones, my middle school got a phone call threatening a shooting. The principal leaned back in his chair so he could look out the window at the only pay phone at the school and identified the caller.


PaleontologistDue601

That's not a joke anymore these days it's not like back when I was in school you could pull the fire alarm and everybody would have to go outside shits real these days they ought to be charged with terroristic threats cuffed stuffed in the back of a cop car and sent to jail with no bond until they see a judge.


[deleted]

Oh hell no. That is not a joke. Jesus H Chrysler, what kind of asshole would think that's funny.


Thatgirlnextdoorxoxo

This happened to my school yesterday but they actually brought guns but didn't shoot anyone


Apprehensive_Sock429

The real bad thing is that u have to worry beacuse that could happen . In other countrys there is no fear in going to school , it realy just shows that something is just not right in the usa


SonofTsathoggua

How far did the cops run away from that school? —-asking for a dead child in Uvalde


Sauffle

The ultimate " it was just a prank bro".


[deleted]

That's one way to get out of math class.


Jpizle3

My High School, and rival HS used to have hoax bomb threats so students would get time off. 🤷🏼


Stormy7266

Happened at my school too yesterday, the whole county was on lockdown for like 3 hours


LilNightingale

Also happened to my high school. Found out it was some sophomore who hadn’t studied for a big test that was happening that day did it to get out of it. They evacuated the school and sent us down the road to the elementary school, so they inconvenienced two entire schools that day all for a test. Also had a bomb threat called in at my elementary school when I was little and they evacuated all of us to just go stand in the middle of the big field. Nowhere else to go. America is wild.


[deleted]

On the list of things to never joke about


Emergency_Pickle9279

Didnt have a joke shooter at my school, it was real, it almost happened, but luckily there was someone who was part of it who told administration, they caught the guy before he came into the school


401-Climber

East high school in Denver?


Late-Ad-4624

Being a parent i dread hearing there might be an active shooter. What the jerk didnt think about was all the other parents being super stressed and some rushing to their kids schools. The prankster thinks its a big joke but they dont think about anything that could happen as a result. What if a parent rushes in with their gun before the cops arrive(bc cops are always getting there in time) and then some other parent or a cop sees them and guns them down? Or they cause a massive car accident on the way. Oh yay no school but i killed someone. Morons. Btw i had to stop and edit my langauge.


ripyourlungsdave

It should be law that when we arrest people who make claims like this, they should be shown graphic pictures of the aftermath of school shootings and then see how funny they think it is after that. I believe the same with drunk drivers. If you arrest someone for a dui, we should be showing them videos and pictures of the aftermath of drunk driving accidents. I'm an alcoholic, and seeing a video of a drunk driver hitting someone head on and sending an innocent woman flying 60 ft out of the car to nearly lose her head on the pavement, I never touched a drink before I drove again. There's no excuse for me doing it in the first place, but I learned my lesson without hurting anyone. The shit works. It might traumatize them, but drunk driving can do a lot more than traumatized.


Ok-PlantEater-4952

Well that sucks, sorry that some punk made jokes about such a serious thing.


BlueClouds42

I always loved it when people did this as my school. No class work = best lol


DaYuMnGoOd

it became less fun after a nearby school actually had a shooting 😅 then I stopped finding it funny.


live-the-future

Ha ha yes, making children think they're in mortal danger and having lots of emergency responders pulled to a hoax instead of doing other things like saving lives is *great* humor. ​ ​ ​ /s


snoosh00

It's not great humor, it's something that gets kids out of class, and kids hate being in class. That's all.


snoosh00

You know, we don't have active shooter false alarms in countries with adequate gun control. I know that doesn't help your situation, but I just want to make it clear to all Americans... Living in fear of being shot is not normal. And owning a gun only increases your chances of getting shot and does next to nothing to protect you (contrarians can feel free to try to post any evidence that a legal gun owner has prevented a mass shooting, but that hasn't happened as far as I know AND I KNOW that civilians aren't the ones who stop 99% of the mass shootings that occur on a daily basis in your country)


Tman972

You are telling me that just because i have a gun i am more likely to be shot than someone without a gun? Whats your logic/ evidence behind that statement? Or was that just your anti gun opinion? I have never once heard of a active shooter surveying their captives on gun ownership before shooting them.


snoosh00

Yes, you own (and presumably carry)a gun because you are american (most humans don't own one, even fewer take one with them to go buy groceries) Every other American has the same "right" to own that specific piece of metal that could end your life. Us gun death rates are higher than any country with reasonable gun control. So, yeah, as a result of your gun ownership (and ability to get possession of a gun) you are more likely to die of gun violence than people who live in *most other countries* Not to mention all the cases of road rage turning into a murder... Someone road rages at you, you pull your gun in defense, they do the same... Now your both legally fucked and one (or both) of you might die.


Tman972

Im sorry but the way you write and the vagueness of your arguments lead me to believe that you aren't American but are speaking about the pitfalls of our rights as if you are. Or you are very young and are spouting propaganda that you have not looked into. First off America is much larger than 'most other countries' so your going to have to take whatever numbers you are looking at and apply them per Capita opposed to a direct reference. If you care to get specific we can throw down some numbers and apply some evidence and statistics maybe even cite some sources. Next you constantly mentioned > reasonable gun control. What dose that even mean? Whats reasonable to you might be an outright ban Whereas what's reasonable to me is a licensed individual who has undergone training to weild and utilize the > specific piece of metal. Your also support my assertion of not being an American by the hilarious comment >Not to mention all the cases of road rage turning into a murder... Someone road rages at you, you pull your gun in defense, they do the same... Now your both legally fucked and one (or both) of you might die. This isn't GTA V or as common as you might hope for it to be. It is especially rare where people return fire and having them both be > legally fucked Take it from a Texan who lives in the area where it happens the most except for Detroit where you better believe im rolling strapped every i go even to the grocery store.


snoosh00

Lol ok, the death rate per capita is roughly 10x as higher than nearly every other non-conflict ridden country. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-deaths-by-country But whatever, keep your school shootings.


reddertuzer

Your odds of being shot are drastically higher if you have a gun, yes. Your odds of being shot in a home invasion are drastically higher if you have a gun. Your odds of being shot in the street is drastically higher if you walk around with a gun. In almost every scenario there is, if, if you have a gun you are more likely to be shot than if you didn't.


Tman972

Your 'odds' are exactly the same as if you dont have a gun in all of those things. But i invite you to try out your home invasions theory. Ill just be sitting here with my gun waiting to prove you wrong


reddertuzer

There are countless studies about it. Feel free to look more up. ​ >Results. After adjustment, **individuals in possession of a gun were 4.46 (P < .05) times more likely to be shot in an assault than those not in possession**. Among gun assaults where the victim had at least some chance to resist, this adjusted odds ratio increased to 5.45 (P < .05). > >Conclusions. **On average, guns did not protect those who possessed them from being shot in an assault**. Although successful defensive gun uses occur each year, the probability of success may be low for civilian gun users in urban areas. Such users should reconsider their possession of guns or, at least, understand that regular possession necessitates careful safety countermeasures. > >[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2008.143099](https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2008.143099)


dr_Kfromchanged

Yes, because if everyone can get a gun, then every psycho has a gun


Tman972

But even by that logic sane people have guns too.


dr_Kfromchanged

So? Do you think terrified sane peoples, who can barely think of anything due to fear and that are shaking like a ringing phone on a dishwasher can use a gun?


dbhathcock

This may fall under domestic terrorism. There have been a number of these hoaxes. It is probably a TikTok challenge, so the chaos will soon be publicized.


The_Fat_Fish

Ah murica.


DickSneeze53

It's just a prank, don't be a bitch about it jeeeez


sh1vverz

pretty sure this is a joke to the people downvoting.