# Student responsible for bomb threats, blackmail and sexual assults **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 5, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597 "2009-02-05T18:50:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597/21 "2009-02-05T22:14:19Z")
I find it interesting that some people seem to be latching on to it’s a gay sex thing so the boys aren’t really victims. Let your true colors shine people, because it’s blinding. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597/22 "2009-02-05T22:24:20Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > I find it interesting that some people seem to be latching on to it’s a gay sex thing so the boys aren’t really victims. Let your true colors shine people, because it’s blinding. Yeah, that’s right, Sherlock. We’re just getting ready to slap on the pink triangles. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597/23 "2009-02-05T22:30:41Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > I find it interesting that some people seem to be latching on to it’s a gay sex thing so the boys aren’t really victims. Let your true colors shine people, because it’s blinding. Uhh, wouldnt the 'anti-gay" folks think it was WORSE? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597/24 "2009-02-05T22:33:31Z")
If nobody is implying that then I’m wrong and not understanding their meaning. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597/25 "2009-02-05T22:36:40Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > I find it interesting that some people seem to be latching on to it’s a gay sex thing so the boys aren’t really victims. Let your true colors shine people, because it’s blinding. Who said that? I’m hardy thrilled that kids might fear being outed as gay more than having nude pics of themselves exposed (hey, just like Hollywood stars). I’m sure more details will follow. Though… am I wrong or did this story first surface months ago? Or was that another incident? ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597/26 "2009-02-05T22:39:15Z")
I expect that the guys who submitted were the weaker, more timorous, smaller guys in the group. You know, the guys who might be used to being bullied. The guys who might be almost desperate for some girl to show them some attention. I doubt the rougher, tougher, jock types would allow themselves to be intimidated. Unless, maybe, they just wanted to give gay sex a try. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597/27 "2009-02-05T22:39:43Z")
Upon review, **Harmonious** , I get it. If everything really occurred pretty much how it’s described in the article, there will be a lot of ‘You can’t _make_ a dude do anything sexual that he doesn’t want to do!’ Kind of like when a boy gets raped by a female teacher. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597/28 "2009-02-05T22:45:36Z")
I think it’s slightly irresponsible to suggest a link between sexual assault and phoning in false bomb threats. One is clearly a serious crime, whereas the other is really more an expedient last-ditch method of postponing an exam. I remember one time in high school when the cops searched the school on account of a bomb threat, and they actually found a bomb. What the hell?! That kind of idiotic behavior sucks all the fun out of bomb threats. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597/29 "2009-02-05T22:47:48Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#): > > Upon review, **Harmonious** , I get it. If everything really occurred pretty much how it’s described in the article, there will be a lot of ‘You can’t _make_ a dude do anything sexual that he doesn’t want to do!’ Kind of like when a boy gets raped by a female teacher. Yep. There was an actual case of male raped by a woman article just in the news. I will post that link if I relocate it, just because it doesn’t happen too often. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597/30 "2009-02-05T22:49:40Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > So… he shows up at a victim’s house and says “if you don’t have gay sex with me and let me film it, my female partner is going to give your naked picture to people at school”…and the “filmed gay sex” thing seemed like the better choice? Really? > > Unless I were gay and had a fantasy of serving as love slave for some twisted dork, I’d definitely rank the sex thing last, behind the “go ahead, make my cock a star” option, _ **both of those distantly behind the preferred response, which is “twisted dork comes to finding his nose shattered and me removing his toes one by one with hedge trimmers until he or the ‘girl on FaceBook’ hands over every copy of my photo.”** _ I like the way you think. I’m partial to blowtorches. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597/31 "2009-02-05T22:58:01Z")
[Longmont woman accused of raping male friend](http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/jan/29/longmont-woman-accused-raping-male-friend/) ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597/32 "2009-02-06T01:14:34Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > This student had posed as a girl and solicited nude picks of male students. After receiving the pictures, he blackmailed 31 guys into some sexual encounters and picture sessions. You’re just jealous because you didn’t think of it first. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597/33 "2009-02-06T02:45:06Z")
> [@ExTank](#): > > I like the way you think. I’m partial to blowtorches. You won’t want to miss my upcoming collection of inspirational aphorisms, _All I Really Need to Know I Learned at the School of the Americas._ ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597/34 "2009-02-06T03:03:30Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#): > > Upon review, **Harmonious** , I get it. If everything really occurred pretty much how it’s described in the article, there will be a lot of ‘You can’t _make_ a dude do anything sexual that he doesn’t want to do!’ Kind of like when a boy gets raped by a female teacher. Which is then defended by many men with “heck, I’d have loved her as a teacher!” I am sorry for these guys (the teens). This guy sounds like a real piece of work. I don’t quite get the story, either, but I have teens and I know that they will cover up some really stupid shit so that they don’t either get into trouble or look stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597/35 "2009-02-06T03:26:01Z")
> [@Freejooky](#): > > Still, there are way too many weird holes and illogical inconsistencies in the story. No matter how you slice it, _it doesn’t make sense on any level_ that kids would take the gay sex (and further documentation!?) over simple embarrassment. So what, you’re saying the little queer sluts must have been asking for it? At least one of the victims was only 15 years old. Boys as young as 13 were targeted (their photos were on Stancl’s computer) and may also have been assaulted. This might blow your mind, but 13-15 year olds are not always paragons of rational thought and prudent behavior. Kids that age and in a small town would also have good reason to fear humiliation at school/punishment from parents, and Stancl may have specifically targeted boys who were easily bullied. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597/36 "2009-02-06T03:47:20Z")
Other articles I’ve read on this story mention that he performed sex acts on the boys in some instances and, in other instances, had them perform acts on him. I could see a scenario where the first phase of the blackmail is him performing sex acts on the victims which sounds to them like a better (and not quite as “gay”) deal than the public humiliation. Of course, Phase Two is “Now you do it to me unless you want your buddies to have pictures of you getting blown by a guy e-mailed to them.” I’m just pulling scenarios out of my ass though. It could just as easily gone a different way. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597/37 "2009-02-06T14:16:31Z")
What the hell is a dog ham? Or do I not want to know? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597/38 "2009-02-06T14:45:53Z")
Shockingly enough, I’m with **Freejooky** on this one. At least insofar as something definitely doesn’t add up here. I still hope the dude gets sent to choky for years and years. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597/39 "2009-02-06T14:56:44Z")
> [@Carl\_Corey](#): > > What the hell is a dog ham? > > Or do I not want to know? Only you can answer the second question. As to the first: [dog ham](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=499118). ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597/40 "2009-02-06T15:09:19Z")
You know, that wasn’t nearly as disturbing as I feared. Maybe I’ve been hanging around here too much. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-responsible-for-bomb-threats-blackmail-and-sexual-assults/484597.md?page=3)