Plainfield High School Closed Due to Threat

[chezuki]

Plainfield Schools are canceled today due to threats on social media.

Police investigating for credibility.

The threat: (not embedded due to language)

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f171/dhaneswo/5F3A9A9A-25A9-4916-B51C-65317D258A99_zpsmoxnqasn.png

http://www.wthr.com/story/30772592/...-apparent-online-threat-against-plainfield-hs

 

[Leo]

Sounds like the terrorists are winning. When a whole school gets shutdown on a likely hoax, it is proof the fear of being a victims becomes paralyzing to masses of people. Like LA schools the other day. Bad deal.

 

[hoosierdoc]

^ what he said

wonder if that was a real username for FB.

 

[churchmouse]

We are forever changed as a society. 9/11 was the key in this.

 

[dudley0]

So someone doesn't want to take his final and creates a FB page that is fake..... wow, bet that will never happen again.

Hope that they find out the real poster behind this and make a media blitz about how he or she got busted and all that.

 

[eldirector]

Last I heard:
2 students arrested (don't know if from Danville or Plainfield)
Danville also closed.

 

[churchmouse]

Last I heard:
2 students arrested (don't know if from Danville or Plainfield)
Danville also closed.

If these kids did this they need to be publicly chastised and tazed. This needs to stop.

 

[eldirector]

I haven't found online versions, but on Tony Katz this morning they mentioned:
threats to show up at lunchtime with handguns, rifles, and pipe bombs.

So, not your typical "let's get out of school early" prank.

 

[churchmouse]

I haven't found online versions, but on Tony Katz this morning they mentioned:
threats to show up at lunchtime with handguns, rifles, and pipe bombs.

So, not your typical "let's get out of school early" prank.

My 1st thought was students but one never knows these days and therein lay the problem.

 

[avboiler11]

While it would be malfeasance for law enforcement to not take a threat seriously-

Has any 'mass shooter' in the US ever made a *specific* threat toward a *specific* target online and followed it up with action?

 

[chezuki]

We are forever changed as a society. 9/11 was the key in this.

I'm failing to see the 9/11 connection here. Can you elaborate?

 

[hoosierdoc]

I've never read the whole script of Columbine, but it's very eerie.

the whole time I kept wanting to see: "then teacher smith pulled his gun and killed them."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre

 

[chezuki]

In Paul Howe's Combat Mindset the the columbine security footage is played with the transcript narrated over it. It's brutal.

 

[CHCRandy]

Geeze....in my days at DHS he would have been outgunned. Funny how in the 80's we use to carry our guns to school with us....no one ever got shot or threatened. Times sure have changed.............in a small amount of time. DHS press conference now.

 

[chezuki]

Geeze....in my days at DHS he would have been outgunned. Funny how in the 80's we use to carry our guns to school with us....no one ever got shot or threatened. Times sure have changed.............in a small amount of time. DHS press conference now.

I can't not read that as "Department of Homeland Security".

 

[churchmouse]

I'm failing to see the 9/11 connection here. Can you elaborate?

Terror....plain and simple. That day opened the door for all of this madness...all of it. Once we were hit right here at home our lives were forever changed.

 

[chezuki]

Columbine was before 9/11.

 

[churchmouse]

Columbine was before 9/11.

I am not referring to columbine. Just the current fear of terrorists.
The current state of mind feeds this frenzy as does the Columbine/Sandy Hook situations. It all leads us down this insane path.

 

[chipbennett]

Well, this certainly hits close to home. I have zero problem with the school's response.

I'd rather the school not be a designated defenseless-victim zone, though. We live in Plainfield, and all of our daughters' teachers are armed. (We homeschool.)

 

[funeralweb]

Last I heard:
2 students arrested (don't know if from Danville or Plainfield)
Danville also closed.

Yes. Police Chief: "Get ready to go to jail." They will be charged with Intimidation, which is a felony when involving school property.
On the other side of this, I'm relieved every day that passes and no shootings occurred in a school. The liberals win more ground when that happens. I'm more afraid of their momentum than I am some sheep sodomizer.
Threats, and the precautionary measures taken by school officials, predate Columbine, 9/11 or any other infamous recent event. As a 6th grader in 1977, my local school quietly skipped the last day after a bomb threat was phoned in. We were having one of those time-killing field days the day before and my teacher made the announcement just before we boarded our buses at the end of the day.