[news] Bomb scare at Black Country schools

[unixman_again]

Four schools evacuated over bomb threat alert - Birmingham Mail

 

Bomb scare at Black Country schools: All you need to know - Birmingham Mail

 

Hundreds of pupils sent home as schools evacuated after bomb scare - Express & Star

[Narwhal]

Meh, we used to get 'IRA' bomb threats all the time when I was at school. In fact there was a phone box at the end of the road that many of them were called in from...when some students fancied a bit of time off lessons.

[adhutton]

Wasn't there an eventual agreement made between the IRA and the British Police that only bomb threats which carried the use of a particular 'code word' would be taken seriously?

 

Maybe the current set of terrorist nut jobs could make a similar agreement, just to save everyone a bit of time and money?

 

Andrew

[JATSO]

Those that might consider it fun to phone the local school and carry out such threats for their own amusement or whatever need to realise that when push comes to shove and someone doesn't evacuate or follow the correct procedures\actions when receiving such threats because they think its just the kids playing up again, that's when the real terrorist strikes. Complacency is sometimes the route to disaster.

Those responsible need to be found and severely dealt with prank or not.

The advantage we have today is that every electronic communication is monitored some way or another.

Edited January 19, 2016 by JATSO

[unixman_again]

Five more bomb threats this morning. There were others earlier in the week.

 

Latest Birmingham News and information from the Birmingham Mail (check breaking news column)

[CAM]

They occurred in South London a few days ago too. Schools are on alert for threats.

[unixman_again]

Six more today

Six more schools hit by Monday morning bomb hoax calls - Birmingham Mail

School bomb threats: Hoaxes continue into third week - Express & Star