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Schools locked down over “ambiguous message” taken as threat

Posted on March 2nd, 2013 at 11:43 by John Sinteur in category: batshitinsane, Do you feel safer yet? -- Write a comment

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eaver County schools had their lives “flipped, turned upside down” Thursday morning when a phone greeting involving the theme song from the 1990s sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” was taken as a threat.

All schools in the county were advised to lock down for about 20 minutes while police searched for a 19-year-old Ambridge Area High School student whose greeting to callers was mistakenly taken as a threat about “shooting people outside of the school.”

The actual line from the song is “And all shooting some b-ball outside of the school.”

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Even though the situation turned out to be a mistake, Mann said, “I believe everyone acted appropriately. Our first concern is the safety of kids.”

Yes. At the cost of everything else, including common sense.

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