Students at N Michigan University are being told to stay in their dorms due to a "serious threat"

[kpete]

Source: WZZM

Marquette, Mich. (WZZM) Students at Northern Michigan University are being told to stay in their dorms and not report to class due to a 'serious threat' in Marquette

Marquette, Mich. (WZZM) Students at Northern Michigan University are being told to stay in their dorms and not report to class due to a 'serious threat.'

The NMU website says the campus is closed today, including 'essential personnel' unless otherwise notified.


Read more: http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_story.aspx?storyid=151764&catid=14

[Itchinjim]

1. Blizzard?

[kestrel91316]

3. Er, um, YEAH.

[drm604]

4. I don't think so.

http://www.nmu.edu

Northern Michigan University will close today (Wednesday, Feb. 2) due to a serious threat it has received. This will include essential personnel, unless otherwise notified. More information will be provided as it becomes available.

[still_one]

2. Here is a direct link to the school

http://www.nmu.edu/

[madmom]

5. From one of the comments in the link.....

""Reports are saying that someone wrote a blog that stated there would be a mass shooting at the college this morning. The blogger stated that they wanted to "Break the Record" for people being shot on campus.. Police are taking this threat very seriously.."

[PassingFair]

6. My daughter is there. She called me this morning with those words a parent LOVES to hear...

"Now, I don't want you to worry, BUT...."

The kids were told to lock themselves
in their dorm rooms and stay put.

It appears that someone made a threat
on line
to kill students, administrators and
teaches on the campus.

My daughter is NOT worried.

[liberalmike27]

9. Someone

Probably hadn't studied for a test. We'll hope so anyway.

[PassingFair]

10. I gather it was a more credible threat than that....

they put the adjacent hospital on lock down,
as well as canceling classes at the grade,
middle and high school.

Better safe than sorry, though.

My daughter told me a couple of weeks
ago that she had made the Dean's List there...

When she called, we were both on line looking
for details on the lock down, and I told her
that I had found a tweet that said
that local authorities were calling the perp
"The Dean's List Killer"...

Black humor, but my kid is used to it.

:rofl:

[Thor_MN]

17. ...

:spank: , but:applause: :rofl:

[defendandprotect]

25. Oh -- that's all ... !!! I'm sure you're not worried !!!

:)

May everyone be safe -- !!

[Jokinomx]

7. My wife and I were watching the local news out of Grand Rapids...

The anchors mentioned that Northern Michigan Univ. was on lock down... stay tuned for more... commercial break... more news...NMU on lock down because of a serious threat... more next...commercial... more about the snow storm... finally ...NMU is on lock down according to their website. No other information given... stay tuned for updates....

It was absolutely ridiculous that how they dragged out the NON story... other than they were on lock down... which they stated in the blurb about the coming news story.

peace

[gratuitous]

14. In fairness to the local station

They may have teased the story hoping that in the few miuntes of commercial break they'd learn more, and so they dragged it out for a couple of segments. When they didn't get anything right away, they had to fall back on the lame "according to their website" item. Live TV is hard work, and some producer guessed wrong about whether they'd pull some more information in time to make the breaking news worth it.

[Jokinomx]

15. Point made... however, they could say that in the first place...

They don't need to lead...

Just say what they know and tell people they would be updating if any new news occurs.

Just saying..

peace

[pnwmom]

18. A "non story"? Not to any parent of a university student. n/t

[PassingFair]

8. Kids are being allowed to visit food halls ...

they are being escorted in groups.

[PassingFair]

11. Press conference set for 3:30...momentarily. n/t

[PassingFair]

13. Apparently, some nutcase was bragging on a blog about ...

how he was going to shoot up the campus and out-do
the Virginia Tech killings.

Someone in California read the ramblings and called
the school this morning.

The FBI is combing the area looking for the threatening blogger and
interviewing people who know him, so they're looking
for a real person who is NOT where he usually stays.

:scared:

I think the school did the right thing.

[Stryguy]

12. and if gun control existed

Would this be happening? You wouldn't shut down what amounts to an entire town over a person threatening to knife people.

Guns might not kill people but they sure makes it easy.

[Sherman A1]

16. Precisely

You are absolutely correct.

[pnwmom]

19. Definitely easier to kill multiple people. n/t

[davepc]

20. Actually the blog post that caused all this threated to use pipe bombs

If only we had pipe bomb control

[X_Digger]

21. So, if we had 'gun control' like the UK, right?

Then these wouldn't be happening?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12330222

"Many people" will have witnessed the fatal stabbing of an 18-year-old and the shooting of a boy aged 14 in south London, police have said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12353578

Five men and a teenage boy have been jailed for life for shooting dead a "peacemaker" in south London.

http://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/8834195.Kingston_still_safest_but_gun_crimes__rapes__and_sexual_offences_on_the_rise/

Gun crimes, rapes and sexual offences all increased during 2010 in Kingston.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12335515

Man denies Forest Gate double murder shooting

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5iXo-NM19CR3eRh5FF42KpS8ivneg?docId=B32208791296165484A00

Men in court on gun murders charges

....
....

Yes, if you could wiggle your schnozz and make all the guns disappear, you wouldn't see anymore gun deaths.

You'd just be seeing more of these..

http://www.newstime.co.za/WorldNews/Teenager_Stabbed_To_Death_In_London/19716/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12319740

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/20/boy-dies-stabbing-london-school

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5ik4rmtMRN3QgZhdqh_EEHEHl68cA?docId=B27083321294938711A00

http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/x1896056085/Man-faces-55-years-in-killing-of-senior-94

[CreekDog]

23. less people killed in all of those than in minutes at Virginia Tech.

:eyes:

go on, protect your precious guns.

that's what's really precious.

[X_Digger]

29. You have to get to China to see real amok killing..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Chinese_school_attacks

21 dead, 90 injured in at least 4 attacks (that the government will admit to, strong speculation points to more..)

[Doctor_J]

26. I don't think you want to be comparing US's gun deaths to other countries'

I mean, let's at least keep it serious

[X_Digger]

28. The magical thinking was what I was responding to..

Especially silly considering the incident in the op is based on a pipe bomb- something already illegal, yet easy to manufacture.

[Trajan]

22. Funny how this degraded to Gungeon subject matter

Lickety split ....

[CreekDog]

24. guns are the difference between a crazy being able to decide and in minutes

kill dozens.

so it is naturally a topic of discussion.

and the gun advocates, they rarely care about these threads until someone questions the utility of unlimited gun rights.

rarely do they come in and just say, "wow what a shame", instead they post only after something that is truly horrifying to them is brought up --gun control. killing is met with silence, discussion of gun control with panic.

[Trajan]

27. Guns ...

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Discussing guns in a rational manner is just as likely as discussing Israel/Arab relations in a rational manner ...

It isn't long before the gleaming knives, pitchforks and flaming torches are bared for the least trifles ...

I leave gun-talk to the expert gun-arguers in the Gungeon ....


THANK GOD for the Gungeon ....

(Oh yeah .... I am atheist ... Thank David instead)