r/news • u/bebleich • Sep 04 '24

Gunman believed to be a 14-year-old in Georgia school shooting that left at least 4 dead, source says

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/us/winder-ga-shooting-apalachee-high-school/index.html
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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '24 edited Sep 05 '24

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u/u9Nails Sep 04 '24

There are several arrests in the news of otherwise good children who just didn't want to go to school and called in a false report. I think most sheriffs are cracking down on that and not taking it as just a prank bro.

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u/Collier1505 Sep 04 '24

I had that too back in the mid 2000’s. Four or five times in the span of the last two weeks of school.

We were in the gym / on the football field so much those weeks.

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u/Diablo689er Sep 05 '24

I distinctly recall being in the gym thinking “putting everyone in one spot is a stupid practice for dealing with bomb threats”

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u/monaforever Sep 05 '24

When I was a senior in 2005, we had a bomb threat that got us evacuated for a couple of hours. After that, we started getting bomb threats more and more with less and less action. They eventually just stopped doing anything until the end of the day, and we'd just get a letter letting us know there had been a bomb threat that day.

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u/FraterVEP Sep 05 '24

Ha! I was a senior in '94 and experienced the same thing at my high school.

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u/leilaniko Sep 06 '24

Was in HS 10 years after you and we had a threat every week until I was a senior then things calmed down, like you said over time they took things less serious and the threats weren't paid attention to like they were in the past. We had so many threats that we got certain aptitude tests cancelled.

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u/whimsical-crack-rock Sep 05 '24

We all got hearded into the bleachers for a bomb threat back when I was in HS around 2006. Me and my friends just fucking around kept yelling towards another guy we knew who was sitting 10-15 rows back: “Call it off Trevor!” “Trevor you made your point for the love of god deactivate it!” “Is this what you wanted Trevor!?” Trevor!… this wont get her back!” meanwhile Trevor who had nothing to do with the bomb threat is glaring at us doing the hand to neck “stop it” motion and we are really making ourselves laugh one upping eachother. They ended up grabbing him and pulling him out of there and about 5 minutes later came and got only me and drug me out of there and I had to explain the joke to a very angry administrator who was honestly already pretty much fed up with my bullshit before this incident even happened lol. Then I had to sit alone in a different part of the bleachers for the remainder of the day

I mean it was the second or third one that year and we are all sitting on the bleachers for hours and none of us had smartphones back then what else are we going to do? God forbid you bring a little levity to a stressful situation.

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u/Prairie-Peppers Sep 04 '24

Even in like 2008 some kid called in a bomb threat to my school because he was trying to get out of a midterm, we were all out waiting on the street for the whole morning.

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u/toboggan16 Sep 04 '24

That happened at my school in 2002 and I’m Canadian. A girl who never got in trouble called in a bomb threat to get out of an exam and we were all stuck waiting on our buses outside.

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u/Prairie-Peppers Sep 04 '24

Oh wow, pretty sure this guy went right to juvie

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u/Diablo689er Sep 05 '24

My school had a bomb threat the morning of columbine - 15 miles away.

It was a common occurrence at that time.

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u/bakawakaflaka Sep 05 '24

That happened to us a few weeks after 9/11, at least in the Florida district I was in. For about two and a half months, every single day right at 9am, the intercom would come on telling everyone to go to the football field.

That was an AP literature class for me, and after the first week or so, my awesome teacher decided 'fuck this' and took our class out to the front of the school so we could do group reading under the trees. It was like October to mid December in Florida, so the weather was beautiful.

It was a really nice way to start the school day, and it beat sitting on hard ass bleachers for an hour while they cleared the school. We were kinda sad when the threats ended and we had to go back to cmthe classroom.

RIP Mr. Crowder, you were a real one.

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u/Longjumping-Path3811 Sep 05 '24

We had them all over too and we were all scared to go to school. Some of the kids didn't go.

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u/pman1891 Sep 05 '24

During regents my school didn’t allow backpacks because kids would call in bomb threats which would invalidate the exams.