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Why is this on HN? Hoaxes like this happen daily.
by driverdan 14y ago
Why is this on HN? Hoaxes like this happen daily.
- mikeyouse 14y agoI presume because it happened 3-days after 9/11 and the bomber/hoaxer claimed to be with Al Queda.
- smcguinness 14y agoWe had a discussion about this about how often bomb threats get made to universities. I felt as if this was a rare thing, which is why, IMO, when it does happen the news picks it up. However, my coworker thought that it does happen often, but is curious as to how they then distinguish between what might be legitimate and what they immediately think is a hoax. Then we both thought, if you do want to make a bomb threat, how do you decide who to call? Deans office? Football Coach? Ombudsman?
- teach 14y agoI'm at a public school in suburban Austin, and we get probably one bomb threat a year (that I know about). We evacuate for each one, unfortunately.