So, we got a bomb-threat at school today. About five minutes after the first bell, the fire alarm went off. we evacuated. About five minutes after that, they herded all 1600 of us to the football field, about 2 blocks away. Fun yet?
The bleachers were all wet still from dew. It was hot. It was crowded. It was loud.
We sat there. For a long time. After about two hours (about 10:15), I really, really had to use the bathroom, meaning I needed to use the incredibly dirty, scuzzy bathrooms by the football field. I was extremely hungry, having not eaten breakfast.
At 11:30, they told us we could go home. Oh, but no one (including any of my friends who I usually get a ride from) can get their car. we can’t go near the building. My bookbag, with a: my breakfast and lunch and b: my wallet, housekeys, etc are in, is still inside the building. So I now have none of that stuff.
Fuckwads thought it was funny to use 9/11 to call in a bombthreat? If I knew who called the threat in, I’d kick their ass. It makes me feel sick.
Sick, but you are still alive…granted you’re pissed (and rightfully so)…next year, you will be better prepared (whether high school or college). There are jerks everywhere looking for attention. Be ready for the next one.
Also, it sounds like your school admin. had a flimsy evacuation plan for 1600 students. That HAS to be addressed, and a letter from you is perfect place to start. Clean up the language though so they will take you more seriously.
Eh, back in the 80s, we used to get three-four bomb threats a year at my high school. Only two actual bombs… one of them being a teacher’s treat to the after school chem and physics clubs.
The other bomb would have taken out the cafeteria.
Wow, NinjaChick, that really sucks. I remember way back in high school that we got about one bomb threat a year. There were never any bombs, thankfully.
Ya’ll had to sit ouside for two-plus hours and then had the rest of the day dismissed because of the bomb threat? The longest we were ever outside for a bomb threat was 15 minutes. Hell, we never even really strayed that far from the building. Maybe 30 to 50 feet away from the high school was as far as we got.
With today being today, no-one is taking any chances. What would your alternative be? Let the kids go back inside and explode? Just 'cause you had to pee?
Oh, to make it slightly more clear, the “bomb was a treat to physics and chem” isn’t sarcasm. Insane, yet cool teacher. We got to blow stuff up REAL good!
We had 'em too. There were one every year or two in Jr. High and High school. This was late '70’s to early 80’s. Bomb threats were the least of my worries in those hell holes.
When we get bomb threats at work, they don’t even tell us. They just let us keep working. . . thanks, guys.
We got one in grade school (a false threat) and were sent home, and we got one in highschool one time (also false.) I knew the guy that did it (I found out after the fact, when he got caught.)
A day, maybe two, after Columbine, there was a bomb threat called in to the high school I was attending.
More than one person had some doubt in mind as to the source. My advisor (with whom I was on very good terms) outright asked me if I knew who had done it … something like that phrased so that I knew she didn’t necessarily think it was me (at the time it was more wishful thinking than anything else, and no. I didn’t ever retaliate at the school in an explosive/potentially fatal manner). The idea occurred (that it might be me) to more than a few people, and that combined with Columbine and the fact that I was not far separated, in terms of how I was treated by the student body, from Eric and Dylan, made for some interesting encounters.
I just wonder what would have happened if I’d been in the habit of wearing a trenchcoat.
Such fine memories. Luckily, I lived a couple blocks from school so everyone would just evacuate to my house and hang out for the rest of the day. Or hop in my car and my friend’s car (she’d park at my house and we’d walk to school, we had shitty parking on campus) and take off.
Seriously though, make a mental note. Always bring your personal effects when evacuating anywhere. Otherwise, you never know when you’re gonna see 'em again. Books are one thing, but your wallet and keys and stuff are quite another. Can’t be too careful.
We had a bomb threat at my community college a few years ago. Though it was a very serious threat, as there was another community college which almost got bombed for real. You may have heard about it in the news- Guy took pictures of himself with all the explosives in the background, people at the photo developing place saw them and called it in.
I used to work at a very large computer company. I won’t tell you which one, let’s just call it HAL, or maybe Big Indigo. I worked in the mail room. One day we got a bomb threat, and the security guards told us to stay – get this – in the mail room! We probably had 40 undelivered packages in there with us.
May I officially state for the record that those security guards were some dumb punk-ass bitches?
Anyway, we didn’t stay. We went to lunch at Chilis. For 3 hours.
We did, however, have an actual bomb. It went off too. Took out the bathroom wall, the water fountain, and the shrapnel dented a row of lockers up to 20 feet away. I was just down the hallway at the time and it sounded kind of like a television being dropped off a ten foot high podium.
