Student at Radnor High School gets arrested for writing terroristic threats

[GirlWhoLikes2Laugh]

I heard about this yesterday. A 17 year old female senior student at Radnor High School in PA was arrested when another student noticed her writing about how she really identified with the Columbine High School shooters and such. She also wrote things like blowing up the cafeteria, shooting students & things along those lines.

Here's a link about this story if you want more info. The link is http://6abc.com/news/radnor-student-arrested-over-terroristic-threats/379021/.

I just want to add that I graduated from high school in 1990 and back then and even before that, school shootings, threatening of school shooting & things of that sort didn't happen. It seems that the shootings that happened at Columbine have begun a terrible trend of these things happing in other high school, colleges and universities. It's just really a shame that schools have to worry about these types of incidents. Look forward to your thoughts.

 

[rdhd]

Hmm...I graduated HS in 1974, and in the years before that we did have bomb threats, at least once a year. Don't think it's something new.

 

[GirlWhoLikes2Laugh]

Yeah bomb threats are bad but they're not the same thing like what happened at Columbine High School.

 

[chicago]

There have been incidents of this kind before. I think calling it terrorism is a bit misguided.

People like to think only new generations are troubled or bad or whatever, but my high school had a school shooting in the 70s so yeah.

Dont know if its really a crime to write something if you dont show anyone. Someone looked over her shoulder and tattled. Obviously the girl needs some help, but clearly it's been blown out of proportion to even mention terrorism.

 

[GirlWhoLikes2Laugh]

Well the guy who said something about her writing also took pictures with it on his cell phone. It wasn't my idea to call what she wrote terroristic threats, that's what the article said. I don't know where you went to high school but we didn't have any school shootings, bomb threats or any of that stuff. I personally think this guy who said something did the right thing because in light of what's happened at other schools, people need to take this kind of stuff seriously.

 

[chicago]

I think people need to take mental health more seriously. Like i said, girl needs help, but no one knows if she was ever going to go through with it. Most cases, they dont. Rather than go into a panic, they should maybe be trying to help the girl. But that may be too much to ask in the fear stricken post 9/11 world we live in where everything is made to seem like a terrorist threat, even a little girl lol

And my response was to the topic at hand, not you personally. Though just because you may have not had any shootings at your specific school does not mean they were not happening elsewhere.

Here's a list of school shootings in the United States, starting from the 80's (the list actually starts in the 1760s tho).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States#1980s

The shooting that happened at my high school in 1974 is also listed:

October 1, 1973: Elmwood Park, Illinois, student Cynthia Schulze was shot and killed in the hallway between classes by student William Rossi, with whom she was probably not acquainted. Rossi then ran out of the school and shot himself to death in an alley nearby.[208]

Again, I doubt that every shooting or case of someone bringing a gun to school was reported nationally. It is now because that's what gets people in a panic and continually watching the news. For instance, after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared over the Indian Ocean, the media was reporting every kind of plane and boat crash etc. Many of which probably wouldn't have been headline news, if it weren't for the already festering mess of overreaction. Terrorism was mentioned early in the Flight 370 case as well, even though there was no real evidence of that being true. But again, what better way to keep people watching than to freak them out or piss them off.

 

[GirlWhoLikes2Laugh]

I think people need to take mental health more seriously. Like i said, girl needs help, but no one knows if she was ever going to go through with it. Most cases, they dont. Rather than go into a panic, they should maybe be trying to help the girl. But that may be too much to ask in the fear stricken post 9/11 world we live in where everything is made to seem like a terrorist threat, even a little girl lol

And my response was to the topic at hand, not you personally. Though just because you may have not had any shootings at your specific school does not mean they were not happening elsewhere.

Here's a list of school shootings in the United States, starting from the 80's (the list actually starts in the 1760s tho).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States#1980s

The shooting that happened at my high school in 1974 is also listed:

October 1, 1973: Elmwood Park, Illinois, student Cynthia Schulze was shot and killed in the hallway between classes by student William Rossi, with whom she was probably not acquainted. Rossi then ran out of the school and shot himself to death in an alley nearby.[208]

Again, I doubt that every shooting or case of someone bringing a gun to school was reported nationally. It is now because that's what gets people in a panic and continually watching the news. For instance, after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared over the Indian Ocean, the media was reporting every kind of plane and boat crash etc. Many of which probably wouldn't have been headline news, if it weren't for the already festering mess of overreaction. Terrorism was mentioned early in the Flight 370 case as well, even though there was no real evidence of that being true. But again, what better way to keep people watching than to freak them out or piss them off.

Well you make a lot of good points. I understand that you weren't commenting on me personally, it's just I guess I wasn't aware that shootings in schools have a longer history than I thought.

 

[GirlWhoLikes2Laugh]

I am kind of surprised that this topic has had so many views but not many comments. That's okay, I guess a lot of people don't know what to say.

 

[DontAskJusTckle]

Here's my take. It's not clear (at least to me) what she intended to do with the writing. Was she going to send it to somebody? If they found an addressed envelope along with the writing, then that would in my opinion constitute a legitimate threat. If she's just scrawling this stuff on a note pad with no evidence that she intended anybody besides herself to see it, then I'd say she's just been arrested for doodling.

 

[GirlWhoLikes2Laugh]

It was what she wrote that was disturbing. She wrote terroristic threats and it was way more than doodling. I heard that she showed it to the guy who told on her. She apparently didn't think he would tell on her. I think that if she was going to write something like that, it should've been at home or somewhere more private.

 

[chicago]

I think people should stop overreacting that every little thing including what a child writes is terrorism.

Calling the child a terrorist when shes suffering from some kind of mental imbalance or abuse at home is the dumbest thing ive ever heard. Thats America for you though. What can we froth ourselves up about thats really no big deal today?

The article doesnt mention terrorism, girl had no weapons, and a history of mental illness. Thats someone that needs help, not vilifying.

 

[kopfhorer]

I am so sick to death of the police being called in every time someone says "BOO!". Should someone have intervened with that young woman? You bet. But unless there was hard evidence or suspicion beyond a reasonable doubt of foul play, she should not have gone to jail.

 

[Tickling&Farts]

I graduated from my high school in 2003 so even then there was fights in my school in the hallways and a few bomb threats here and there you'd over hear things. But nothing like it is today with kids (With social media threats and Instances of fighting your teacher because they took away your dumb precious smart phone for one period etc.)

All these school shootings that have happened recently or in the past while they are very sad to hear about or see on the news. And I do pray for the victims families and the parents and the kids and family members of the kids and grandparents and even the shooter or shooters parents. But It doesn't shock me. We have always lived in a evil age in this world and will be that way until Jesus Christ Returns. Clearly this girl needs counseling and help though with possible mental issues maybe and anything else that's going on with her in her home life or lack of. I will be praying for her.

 

[chicago]

I love how everyone claims nothing like this happened when they were in school lol

 

[kopfhorer]

I went to school in the seventies. It was as regular as clockwork at exam time - some schmuck would phone in a bomb threat to the school, and the school would have to shut down while the campus cops combed every inch of the place looking for the non-existent explosive device. And of course, the exam would have to be postponed.

'Course today, those shitheads would have Homeland Security banging down their door in a New York minute...