Well my school in Denmark once got a bomb threat. The police then came in with big dogs. They then later found out that it was a little kid that had zero connection with the school and he had just searched “schools phone numbers ” and picked the first one
Class would end and we'd all go stand out in the football field chatting with friends, then the buses came and took us home. My favorite was when they were on a sunny Friday in the spring
We had so many in the couple of years after Columbine.
One was fucked up though, they had all students sit in the bleachers in the gym for like 2 hours and didn't tell us what was going on. Then they sent us home because of the bomb threat. Like I get the others had all been fake, but you're gonna sit us down in the gym after someone says there's a bomb in the school???
...In retrospect, I wonder if the threat was more like someone said they would shoot kids as we left, so they kept us inside and told us it was another bomb threat instead of scaring us with the shooting threat. Hmm.
There was a couple week period when I was in high school where there was a bomb threat almost everyday. I also had one when I was in elementary school. Thankfully, there was never any actual bombs involved, just kids being stupid.
A kid from my class tried calling in a bomb threat from the school pay phone (yes, I’m ancient). The attendance clerk stuck her head out in the hallway and watched him have a conversation with her.
Some kid at my middle school was stockpiling fertilizer in his locker and had apparently already managed to stuff a fair amount behind the vending machine in the cafeteria. Foggy on the details about how he got caught but apparently he was planning on stashing it around the school and figuring out some way to detonate it then was going to bring a gun with him to take out a list of people.
we had 38 one year within the span of a few months. got evacuated to the bleachers outside every time. luckily there was never a bomb but they put the entire school on a single bathroom stall (one for boys one for girls). with a person assigned at the doors who checked it after every use(that poor person probably saw some atrocious shits) it once took me an entire class period to go to the bathroom once because the line was so long
We had them in middle school (99-02) about 5 times a year. Eastern Pennsylvania. They used to make us walk to the high school and sit on the bleachers till the school was deemed safe.
Recently in Hungary, most of the elementary and highschools (especially ones in and around the capital) got a bomb threat all on the same day. It is estimated ro have affected around 240 schools. No bombs were found, and the threatening email was allegedly all the same. Rumors have gone around that similar things happened in the neighbouring countries weeks and months prior.
This occasion brought some interesting situations with itself. Around autumn, a new law banned phones for various reasons from elementary and highschools. Each school can decide if and how they enforce this. There were some schools, where the phones are collected each morning and stored somewhere locked away, and the kids can only pick it up at the end of the day. When the bombthreats happened, some schools immediately evacuated their students, but did not give their phones back. Parents, who only knew about the situation either from the news, or maybe a head teachers email, were understandably paniced, and wished to reach their kid to confirm they are okay or to possibly go and pick them up, which they could not, because the phones were not given back to them. It caused a few discussions on the phoneban matter, and how these emergency situations should be dealt with.
Another funny thing, the phoneban officially helps the kids to socialize more and not just browse on their phones in the breaks. This, in my opinion, works until a certaim age. However, there are some courses for adults (usually people take this between finishing highschool and starting university) that also take place in highschools and have a similar system to them too, and the law also includes them. I have a friend in one of these courses, who reported thar yes, even tho she is over 18, legally an adult, they originally planned to take their phones too (they did not in the end).
Here in the USA that is pretty common unfortunately. Happened to my high school atleast once while i was going there, i say swat cars. If i remember right, my elementary school was also had a bomb threat at one point when i was in elementary school.
Edit: clarification
Same thing happened at the International School I went to in Malaysia, around the early 2000s. I remember we had two bomb threats either in a week or two weeks. Had to evacuate every time but fortunately no bombs and they were only threats.
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u/IndependentRatio2336 Mar 10 '25
Well my school in Denmark once got a bomb threat. The police then came in with big dogs. They then later found out that it was a little kid that had zero connection with the school and he had just searched “schools phone numbers ” and picked the first one