Eighth-Grader Arrested, Linked To Bomb Threat:
A 14-year-old was arrested in Tampa for threatening to plant a bomb at his middle school. Bomb making materials and the pre-requisite “The Anarchist Cookbook” were also found at the boy’s home. The motive? The usual…
A school resource officer searched Pickett’s room with his mother’s permission Wednesday after a student from another school overheard him bragging about having explosive materials, McElroy said. The comments were made at a bus stop, she said, and Pickett also threatened to “get back at the kids who have given him a hard time.”
In a journal, Pickett wrote that he wanted to injure students but did not list names, McElroy said. She said police believe he was acting alone.
According to a police report, Pickett was overhead saying he wanted to emulate the Columbine High School shooting.
While bullying is a plague upon our schools that the school boards are ill equipped to deal with it’s still no excuse to kill people. God forbid the plan had actually succeeded and this kid had lived. He’d be spending at least the rest of his life in prison all because of a middle school. Nothing like screwing the rest of your life up at the age of 14. Listen kids, it’s just not worth it. I know it seems like an eternity now but in reality your school years are just a small period in your life in the long run. It’s not worth killing yourself or other people.
And again the question has to be asked about the parents. Where were they? Where does a 14-year-old kid who can’t obviously drive get a hold of bomb making materials without his parents knowing about it? Get with it people. Don’t think it can’t happen in your town because it can happen anywhere.
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The best part about this article is that they give out his address for anyone to see. Is that standard journalistic practice, or are they just trying to get people to send letters to the family?
I’ll just say “It’s Florida” and leave it at that.
I was thinking about saying something like that, but I figured I’d leave it for someone else to say it.
In a previous post, “The Mutants Are Rankled”, February 3, 2005, I asked a very simple question:
“Are you willing to try making bullying history and help prevent the next Columbine, or is it just too much fun to antagonize each new generation of victims and pretend that you’re not part of the problem?”
Trench avoided the question and responded with yet another insult:
“Everyone is responsible for their own actions. If a drunk has the keys he should have sense enough not to drive. If he doesn’t have the sense that means he’s mentally impaired. So basically you’re saying that someone who has been bullied that plans on exacting violent revenge against their tormentors is mentally imbalanced. Well for once we agree.”
Sure Trench, everyone is responsible for their own actions, unless you’re a violent, sadistic, popular athlete at Columbine High School. As for being “mentally imbalanced”, just keep making excuses for those who condone the torture of children, and continue feigning bewilderment when the victims behave as if they’ve been taught to fear and hate everyone around them.
And stop blaming the parents of the victims. Every home in America has “bomb making materials” in it, yours included.
What a fucking minute! What school??? Oh Stewart–figures.
They send home a note for everything and the middle school kid didn’t say anything about this–nor has anything been on the local news that I’ve seen.
I agree about the Florida part (I hate this fucking state!)
You make it seem like the athletes at Columbine were members of some kind of cult. They were just normal high school kids.
Sure, kids can be brats sometimes, but that’s no excuse to kill them.
I keep forgetting. Bullies never do anything worse than a little harmless teasing.
As for being “mentally imbalanced”, just keep making excuses for those who condone the torture of children.
As for being “a violent, sadistic, popular athlete”, just keep making excuses for those who condone the murder of innocents.
Do you think my four year sentence to high school was fun? I thought it was hell on earth! But guess what? Now that I’ve graduated the past four years weren’t as dramatic as I thought they were.
These kids have to realise that there is a life after high school. It’s not worth throwing away your life at age 15/16/17/18 to get revenge on some jerk. Life is too short to waste it on vengence.
No person has the right to take the life of any person no matter what the justification. It sounds as if Hi’s parents forgot to teach that.
This isn’t about the “right” to kill people and at no time have I tried to justify what Harris and Klebold did. They knew right from wrong just as you do. They simply didn’t care, and not caring is a product of how you perceive others, and that comes from experience. If you don’t like monsters, don’t produce them.
I’m starting to get pissed off now. You (Trench) asked where the parents are. That has nothing to do with it. Don’t blame it on the parents. Parents can’t be blamed for something the kid wanted to do or planed to do. See I have 3 brothers and I am 16, everyone one of us has been arrested, one of my brothers at least 10 times, my other brother for domestic violence and so on and I said some stupid crap online that the was turned into the cops but should my parents take the blame? Hell no. My mom is always asking us if anything is wrong and they are good parents but all of us kids just mest up somewhere, we just have very bad tempers and like violence. How can that be blamed on our parents??? It can’t so no more crap about blaming them. In just about all school violence cases the kids were made fun of a lot, that should take a lot more blame. I don’t get made fun of too much but I know what it feels like when you do, I was in middle school and I wanted to go psycho and kick the crap out of everyone.
Why arent you guys more concerned about helping the people that is being bullied than just disregarding them (disregarding them or bullying is what is causing them to have such feelings to get revenge and such), talking bad will not change someones feelings, just be a friend to them and you’d be suprised at what kind of people they are and how much they change if they just have someone to talk to.
Harmless teasing Hi? Theres no such thing.