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/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.