Threats rattle 3 universities, 2 schools

[laststeamtrain]

Source: AP

AUSTIN, Texas - Campus threats forced lock-downs and evacuations at universities in Texas, Oklahoma and Tennessee and two public schools in Louisiana on Tuesday, a day after a Virginia Tech student's shooting rampage killed 33 people.

In Louisiana, parents picked up hundreds of students from Bogalusa's high school and middle school amid reports that a man had been arrested Tuesday morning for threatening a mass killing in a note that alluded to the murders at Virginia Tech.

Schools Superintendent Jerry Payne said both schools were locked down and police arrested a 53-year-old man who allegedly made the threat in a note he gave to a student headed to the private Bowling Green School in Franklinton. Both towns are in southeastern Louisiana.

"The note referred to what happened at Virginia Tech," Payne said. "It said something like, 'If you think that was bad, then you haven't seen anything yet."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070417/ap_on_re_us/university_bomb_threat

[skooooo]

1. hmmm..

Randi's talking about gun control laws. Interesting that even these threats come from the South where there are laxer gun laws...

[Bobbieo]

2. Because of all the media hype - it is 'copycat' time and open

season on the nation's colleges and universities. This is so sad!

[bdamomma]

4. sickening we are a violent society.

[ShockediSay]

11. So far, THIS is the real terrorist threat in the US nt

[bdamomma]

3. yea, listening now.

they need stricter gun laws everywhere.

[aquart]

6. Reporter just said how very very very legal that Glock was.

Isn't that nice? So was the ammunition he bought at the same time. How many bullets is 15 rounds?

[Bushies gotta go]

8. not sure if you are serious

but a round is a bullet. 15 rounds=15 bullets.

[ananda]

9. Oh.

I thought a round was like a clip or magazine and included all the bullets fired.

It's nice to know what a round really is. Thanks.

[bbernardini]

5. I fully expected this.

After Columbine, the school where I taught received multiple bomb threats. A year later, at a different school, bomb threats were the "in" thing for a while.

[LifeDuringWartime]

7. similar situation at my old high school

It got pretty ridiculous. There were multiple threats and lock downs in one day a few times. Thankfully, each time it was only some dumb ass kid trying to get out of class.

[jhrobbins]

10. Jeez, I live in Austin and hadn't heard this yet-better turn on the local

[truthisfreedom]

12. "a 6-foot-tall man in a skirt, high heels, lipstick and a blond wig" seems like comic relief.

sigh.