aggiealum
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My cousin called me tonight about a SCARE (this one does apply Darth) at her daughter's high school today. Seems some 17 year old kid decided to bring two handguns and some knives to school in his back pack, and hid an AK-47 in a bathroom before going to class. His parents woke up and saw he was "missing" from the house (they didn't know he went to school?), then checked and saw the guns were missing (why check to see if they were gone in the first place). They run over to the school and tell Administrators what happened, so they call this kid into the office for questioning. He strolls into the office with his backpack, they open it up and find the guns and knives. He then tells them about the AK in the bathroom. He then claims he was going to "make an announcement" later that day,and if his "demands" weren't made, some major violence would occur. Crisis averted, but you can just imagine what the potential outcome could've been.
This incident occurred right after last week, when she said some anonymous email went to one of the major school district offices that stated that "some elementary school" around San Antonio would see major carnage on Thursday. The police chief announces the threat, and all of a sudden there's major panic around the entire city wanting to know what the police and FBI planned to do. She said that it was obviously some hoax, but everyone got paranoid and kept their kids at home on Thursday. Nothing happened of course, but the two largest school districts in town reported less that 54% attendance in all their schools for that day, resulting in potential penalties of over $1.5 million from State funds because of the unexcused attendance numbers.
So you have one mental case that apparently the parents knew had a short fuse or something going on, otherwise why would they panic about their kid "missing" on a school day, and why would they check for missing guns if they didn't already know he was capable of taking them and using them for a potential replay of Columbine?
Then you have some other nutjob, most likely another kid that didn't want to go to school that day (it was a makeup day for the state mandated STAAR test), that ends up creating major panic across the entire city, costing taxpayers millions of dollars by simply sending a threatening email.
I guess this is the becoming the norm these days. "Responsible gun owners" leaving guns readily available for a family member to walk out the door with, and any idiot using the power of social media to reek havoc on an entire city at the press of a button.
This incident occurred right after last week, when she said some anonymous email went to one of the major school district offices that stated that "some elementary school" around San Antonio would see major carnage on Thursday. The police chief announces the threat, and all of a sudden there's major panic around the entire city wanting to know what the police and FBI planned to do. She said that it was obviously some hoax, but everyone got paranoid and kept their kids at home on Thursday. Nothing happened of course, but the two largest school districts in town reported less that 54% attendance in all their schools for that day, resulting in potential penalties of over $1.5 million from State funds because of the unexcused attendance numbers.
So you have one mental case that apparently the parents knew had a short fuse or something going on, otherwise why would they panic about their kid "missing" on a school day, and why would they check for missing guns if they didn't already know he was capable of taking them and using them for a potential replay of Columbine?
Then you have some other nutjob, most likely another kid that didn't want to go to school that day (it was a makeup day for the state mandated STAAR test), that ends up creating major panic across the entire city, costing taxpayers millions of dollars by simply sending a threatening email.
I guess this is the becoming the norm these days. "Responsible gun owners" leaving guns readily available for a family member to walk out the door with, and any idiot using the power of social media to reek havoc on an entire city at the press of a button.
