# Another fucking hoax threat **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 16, 2016, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-fucking-hoax-threat/757516 "2016-06-16T13:11:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-fucking-hoax-threat/757516/21 "2016-06-18T04:21:17Z")
To briefly get back to the OP, when he was in junior high school, my brother was implicated in a called-in bomb threat. He didn’t do it. He was home sick that morning. But two of his friends were busted for it, and said it was his idea. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-fucking-hoax-threat/757516/22 "2016-06-18T04:34:28Z")
> [@Azeotrope](#): > > Because the one time they say “eh, it’s probably just a hoax” could be the one time we get Children McNuggets blown from here to hell and gone, And That Would Be Bad. > [@Superdude](#): > > They taste best with honey mustard > [@Azeotrope](#): > > I’m a sweet and sour fan myself. > [@boffking](#): > > Whoever called in this treat needs to be severely punished. sic ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-fucking-hoax-threat/757516/23 "2016-06-18T05:25:33Z")
If someone genuinely wanted to blow up a school and kill people, I doubt they’d warn the school first. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-fucking-hoax-threat/757516/24 "2016-06-18T19:07:18Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > First World Problems … > > Let’s Pit the bad smell of gasoline why don’t we … If our oh so brilliant “scientists” :rolleyes: can land a space probe on one of the moons of Saturn, why can’t they make gasoline smell like chocolate cake? Bad enough I have to mow the fucking lawn on a hot day but I have to do it in a cloud of fucking petrochemical fumes! It smells like chemicals and chemicals are bad!!! :mad: How was that? ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-fucking-hoax-threat/757516/25 "2016-06-19T09:07:06Z")
> [@boffking](#): > > A kid who jokes about blowing up the school should not be rewarded with a day off. But they aren’t. At least here in Minnesota. The state requires all schools to have a certain number of schooldays during the year, so if school is cancelled due to a bomb threat, that’s a day that has to be made up later. (Usually at the start of summer, when the weather outside is really nice, and inside the non-airconditioned classrooms are stifling hot.) So not very effective long-term. But most teenagers aren’t very good at thinking as long-term as the end of the school year. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-fucking-hoax-threat/757516/26 "2016-06-19T14:57:16Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > In Leviticus, that’s punishable by death. Is that in Indiana? ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-fucking-hoax-threat/757516/27 "2016-06-19T17:59:15Z")
A day after Sandy Hook our campus had lockdown and total cancellation of the day’s classes because some shithead called in a bomb threat It was an idle, stupid action by a stupid young woman who wasn’t prepared to take a math test, but the school had to respond to it as a credible threat (more goodness: she’s the daughter of a local judge and called from a traceable phone number). A day after a shooter killed a fellow student at UPenn and holed up in one of the campus buildings; it wasn’t terrorism, just a relationship gone wrong.\* My understanding is that the university was a bit slow to respond – in this environment one is compelled to act, even when it’s a 99.9999% percent chance that a threat is credible. It’s a shitty timesuck and seriously undermines the feeling of personal security, but there you have it ☹ Our uber-lefty union and many members of campus have called for our campus cops to get armed. \*Well, it technically was terrorism on a small scale. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-fucking-hoax-threat/757516/28 "2016-06-19T18:22:55Z")
I _like_ the smell of gasoline. Especially in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-fucking-hoax-threat/757516/29 "2016-06-19T18:26:15Z")
> [@simster](#): > > Is that in Indiana? Yeah, but the northern half. We true Hoosiers don’t claim it. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-fucking-hoax-threat/757516/30 "2016-06-20T15:48:06Z")
> [@boffking](#): > > When are we going to stop falling for these stupid hoaxes? Just because you’re stupid and fall for hoaxes doesn’t mean the rest of us are. But this is an important step. You have become aware of how retarded you are. Now we can move forward and make you less retarded in the future. Don’t worry retard. We’re going to unretard you. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-fucking-hoax-threat/757516/31 "2016-06-23T22:58:20Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > I’ve been known to dip McDonald’s nuggets in sauces from Wendy’s. I’m surprised I haven’t been arrested yet. I put non-Tide pods in the Tide Pods container. Don’t tell the Feds. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-fucking-hoax-threat/757516/32 "2016-06-24T00:07:08Z")
I don’t think it’s a good idea to dismiss bomb threats as hoaxes out of hand. And they’re certainly nothing new. I worked in the campus library at my undergrad uni, and as regular as clockwork we’d receive bomb threats every semester during finals week, when everyone was there studying. Not once did we just blow it off. The only other bomb threat I ever experienced was at the El Paso bus station. Having walked across the border from Juarez after returning from Nicaragua and Mexico, I was waiting for my bus to take me back to my West Texas home. Naturally they cleared everyone out. Nothing was found. Who in their right mind would simply blow off a bomb threat? Imagine the lawsuits if it turned out to be real and lives were lost. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-fucking-hoax-threat/757516/33 "2016-06-24T02:31:57Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Who in their right mind would simply blow off a bomb threat? Imagine the lawsuits if it turned out to be real and lives were lost. I was once a Delegate at our State Democratic Convention, when the Fire Marshall came to the podium and announced that a bomb threat had been phoned in, claiming it would go off in about 15 minutes. He thought it was a hoax, but he still advised us to evacuate the building so they could do a search. So a motion was made to recess the Convention. Then the delegates started debating the motion, asking points of information, etc. This continued for about 25 minutes, until the Chair pointed out that it was now 10 minutes past the scheduled time for the bomb to explode, the motion was now moot, and we would continue with the agenda. And we did, and no bomb ever exploded. Since these people were spend a nice early summer weekend at a political convention, you might question whether “in their right mind” applies anyway. But there was a political reason for the opposition – it was late in the day, and had they recessed, it’s unlikely they would have ever reconvened that evening; they would have had to do that the next morning. The next major item was choosing between 2 candidates for a State Office, with one candidate more strongly supported by delegates from rural areas, many of whom would be leaving that night or the next morning. So evacuating for the bomb hoax would have likely affected who the Convention endorsed. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-fucking-hoax-threat/757516/34 "2016-06-24T16:06:19Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > _ **He Came Back To A Thread!** _ > > A sign of the apocalypse? You decide. I came just to see if he would appear, not to read his thread because no one really does. Is he trying to out aceplace **aceplace?** in stupidity? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-fucking-hoax-threat/757516.md?page=1)