I was in the bathroom, during English class, and a teacher runs in and says, “Girls! Get to your classes now! It’s an emergency!”
This weirded me out a little. So I get back to English and the door is locked. When they let me in, I ask what’s going on and learn that the alert announcement came on, telling all teachers to lock their doors. It’s some ‘secret’ thing like, “There is a silver Mustang with it’s lights on.”
Then the fire drill went off, we got shepherded out to the far-away parking lot, and sit there. And sit there, and sit there…for about an hour and a half.
I was kinda scared. I knew it probably was nothing, but everyone was a little bit apprehensive and it was mildly freaky. I guess because it’s never happened before.
So now I’m finally home, and they even let us back inside the building to get our stuff. Now I’m sad because I couln’t have done homework without my books. Now I have to.
We had a bomb threat last year. The school was totally unprepared for it and didn’t know what to do. As soon as they got the call they told us to get our jackets, leave our lockers open and go outside. It was a really cold day, so they searched the part of the building near the auditorium and finding no bomb let us warm up in there. At about 9 o’clock, they let us home. There was no bomb.
Now we have periodic “panic drills” which means we go unnecessarily far away from the school in the freezing cold until they let us back in.
I worked for a company several years ago (defense contractor) that received a bomb threat. Pretty scary stuff. The cops, (they couldn’t find the bomb squad, no shit) made us all stand around outside the building for a few hours and then let us back in to get coats and keys and told us to go home. Kinda weird they wouldn’t let anyone leave, even those that had their keys until a couple hours had passed.
we had a susp. mail alert today at work. fbi, cdc, firefighters, and police. they played it down though, the most people noticed was the hvac system had gone off. four people were a bit upset that they couldn’t get off of the floor for a meeting. so we all thought it was a short or something until THE email arrived, telling us about the susp. envelope. it turned out the susp. piece of mail was for ME!!!
what a day!!!
on the bright side, your majesty, we both had great stories to tell when we got home today.
My school was totally unprepared for it. The firemen didn’t even come until we had already been let into the school to retrieve keys, etc. Thank god it wasn’t real…
We had two bomb threats yesterday. Of course, since we get these things every year, the school was prepared. We sat down in the stadium for two hours after the first one, went back up into the school for all of about 20 minutes, and ended up having to go back down to the stadium for two more hours.
Unfortunately, we weren’t released early. 1100 students stuck in a football stadium for most of the day, no lunch, in rather warm weather. I’m surprised no fights broke out. Anyway, it was a false alarm. Nothing happened.
I don’t think the school system would’ve been quite as worried if it weren’t for the fact that three bombs have already been found in the area in the past two weeks. One was just a few miles from the school (and my house), in a shopping center.
jessica
My high school had a bomb threat once, right before an exam in my biology class. A couple of years later one of my then classmates told me he’d called it in to avoid the test.
And the company I work for had what would better be called a bomb scare in the building a couple of years ago. Amongst other occupants, we have the Israeli consulate on the 15th floor. One of their security patrols noticed a car in the garage that was obviously quite heavily laden and, being an Israeli security person, immediately suspected a car bomb.
The building was evacuated and adjacent streets were blocked off. The bomb squad brought in their bomb sniffin’ dogs, and the pooches alerted on the low riding trunk of the suspect vehicle.
If they can, the bomb squad prefers to remove a suspect package and just destroy it at a safe location. But this was a car in a parking garage, so they decided they had to disarm it. So they broke into the trunk and found…
It turns out that a woman who worked in the building had made a stop at a nursery on the way in that morning to pick up a load of fertilzer enriched topsoil. Heh.
We too, got stuck in the stadium after the first 30-45 minutes of standing outside, wondering what the hell was going on. All in all we lost about 3 hours of class time, and the community had a total panty-wad for days. It was scary at first, but it regressed into a free recess period. God knows we could all use recess again. Lots of it.
At our high school, we actually had a bomb go off. Really. It took out an entire wall and a drinking fountain. The shrapnel dented in a whole row of lockers on the other side.
But we did get out of school that day.
Pssh… you guys act like it’s a big deal. My school always got bomb threats, maybe 2-3 times a year. It was a normal occurance. The other school in the district got one every month or so. There was one time where they were getting one every other day for about 2 weeks.
I think the closest they ever came to finding a bomb in any of the schools was the time we had a bomb “scare” over a metal thermos.
