He says subjectively.
And another thing - all these people robbed by guns that aren’t even real. What a bunch of pussies! We should make it illegal to cooperate with an armed robber unless they demonstrate the gun is real.
One good reason for responding to fake bomb threats - well, apart from the really obvious reason that it’d be difficult to know if they were fake - is that the response gives people practice in how to respond to a real bombing. Yeah, some people might say “oh, it’s just another fake threat” and attempt to go about their day as usual, but they can’t, because they’ll be foced to leave the school/office building/not get on the flight, etc. And they’ll know how to leave the building safely, how to get home when there’s no public transport, etc, and be somewhat emotionally prepared.
The fake bomb threats are almost useful, actually; they’re like fire drills with no warning.
You only say that because you haven’t read the homelessness thread.
So, what should the penalty be for unlawfully fleeing a bomb threat?
I say death. That way they’ll learn to take this seriously.
Link?
OK, I saw the link. Woh! Just woh!
Let’s come back to discuss reasonnable ideas like not evacuating buildings in case of bomb threats.
This is more stupid that the insanely stupid OP.
I didn’t think it was possible, but at least I can admit I was wrong.
IME in the IRA days evacuations in the case of bomb threats were not that big a deal and we didn’t even have laptops or cloud working then. We had phones; really imporant calls got re-routed. Everyone else went to the pub.
At the tail end of the IRA threats I worked in a sweet shop in a mainline train station and they had to pay higher premiums because of the odds of being evacuated, but they also had much higher year-round traffic than most sweet shops. Odds are there were also ways their higher-ups coud get tax breaks from losing business due to terrorism. Certainly, none of our managers, who were really hot on bonuses and floor sales, gave a shit about terrorist alerts.
Nowadays, sending everyone home to work from home or from a location with access to the same server is just not a real problem unless it happens every day for weeks on end. One day a year, or less? It’s a snow day.
Yes, it is simple and we do understand. But we disagree.
Even if the “lifespan” were lost - and it’s not, it’s just being spent in unplanned ways - that’s not the same as a life. Seven hundred thousand people wasting one hour does not equal one life lost. Thinking that way is very … odd.
Even if one accepts the premise that time is ‘wasted’ when it’s spent in unplanned and economically non-productive ways, which I do not.
Insomnia.
Death by BOMBING!
I did read the homelessness thread. I even linked to it upthread. This one is still stupider.
So, the first bombing’s on the House, so to speak? Such as to establish that you are a bona fide terrorist? So for the first strike one should try a really high visibility target.
What ***have ***been the great disruptions of life and business due to taking precautions upon idle terror threats, anyway? Likely the costs are within the range of accounting error relative to year-end balances. My staff’s lives are worth more than the productivity of the office. The greater expenses have been in expanding general, *standing *“security” measures (vehicle barriers, intrusive checkpoints, surveillance, etc.)
It’s one thing for a landlord or agency or the management on-site or the affected people themselves to make a policy decision that mere threats will not cause them to act in a certain way. But denying them the *choice *as to whether or not to do so, by *criminalizing any conduct other than defiance *regardless of situational considerations? :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
This tells us all we need to know about his sincerity. Reported for a move to the Pit.
My dad tells a story about when he was working on a job site back in the early eighties. Every single Friday at 11 a woman would call up and make a bomb threat on the site. All of the construction workers would pack up their equipment and leave while the site was searched by the time the search was done to verify there was no bomb it was 2 or 3 in the afternoon and the workers would not come back to work for a single hour. Over the course of this two year project multiple millions were lost due to these threats. It was so bad the FBI got involved but were unable to track this woman down.
On one hand the story is hilarious and shows how the OP isn’t totally insane on the other hand if the threat was real just one time and it was ignored the law suit from placing those thousands of people in jeopardy would have been much greater then the cost of half day Fridays.
Yes, but you have to call it in. We’ve got a procedure here, folks!
She was gettin’ her freak on with the 'lectrician 
2 Hours every Friday sounds about right.
Sure. If the government really cared about people they would put explosives in all the public buildings and blow them up if anyone tried to leave because of a bomb threat.
There should be stiffer penalties for making such hoax threats. Same for hoax 911 calls.
I’ll take that as a threat.