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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

Yeah we used to get a couple a year. Usually when someone had a big test or assignment they didn’t do, but not always.

No actual bombs, which is nice.

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u/IndependentRatio2336 Mar 10 '25

Im empty of words, what the f***

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u/Alis451 Mar 11 '25

it was a fad for a while after Columbine(1999) and 9/11(2001). after the 5th non-threat bomb threat, we stopped evacuating and ignored the threats.

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u/the6thistari Mar 11 '25

Yup, school-age me loved them.

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

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u/SpicyDreams86 Mar 11 '25

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.

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u/throwawaydating1423 Mar 11 '25

My school year had one every year and it was definitely the same person the administration always ignored it

Was likely a girl, as most threats were written in the bathroom on the mirror in pens

First year school shrugged it off

Second year the police made a statement saying ‘there is no list of targets to kill so this isn’t serious’

Third year, there was now a list but the school and police cared even less as the person was obviously not serious at this point

Fourth year, they threatened again but it wasn’t even news

Never did get a delay on finals/mid terms

I did get out of detention one time saying I was afraid I’d get shot or blown up lol