Comments on: Alarm Clock Prank Brings Felony Charges

19 High School Seniors Charged With Planting False Bomb For Taping Clocks To School Walls

[gunownerdan]

If we would simply ban those evil "assault alarm clocks", no one could ever use them to trigger another bomb scare again.
BAN ALARM CLOCKS NOW!!!!!!!!!

[texas-mason]

It wasn't a "bomb prank". It was clocks set to go off all at the same time. They never said anything about bombs. The police decided "OH NO! It's a ticking clock. It must be a bomb!" again a total overreaction by law enforcement that is now being blown even farther out of proportion by the media coverage.

[stevex47]

No bomb pranks on planes, no bomb pranks in schools. Period.

It's the same as telling a classmate you have a gun as a prank.

If your children can't learn that, they aren't ready to graduate.

[texas-mason]

It was a simple high school senior prank. The kind that has been going on for many many years. It's sad that we live in a time that you can't even make a joke without being labeled a terrorist. Just like the Boston scare this is being blown way out of proportion.

[stevex47]

It's drilled into these obvious immature children...ZERO TOLERANCE.

You want to play...you pay. Go to jail.

After columbine and VA Tech...ZERO TOLERANCE.

If you're thinking of a prank, think again, idiots.

[chinesespy]

who cares,it was just a prank

[gunownerdan]

9/11 DID change a lot. It made a majority of the American people into defenseless sheep crying for their government to "protect" them.

[susanhelit]

We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.



As true now as it was then (a far worse time than today).

[susanhelit]

I can understand why the police did what they did - but you have to look to intent here - and the intent was just a fun prank. No breaking stuff, just some clocks.


This is a perfect case for jury nullification, if the prosecutor is dumb enough to charge them.

[harp1963]

It was a very ill-timed misthought practical joke and the kids should be disciplined, but felony charges and four years in jail?

30 years ago when I was a kid growing up in a steel industry town, throwing snowballs at cars in the winter was like a sport. I remember being chased was very exciting and adventuresome. One time (I'm 6'7" tall) my two buddies and I were being chased and we were running behind houses to try and get away from this guy who must have been a cross country runner. It was completely snow white outside and my friends easily passed under a white cloths line that was still up in a neighbors yard. I didn't have that luck and the cloths line hit me right in the mouth and jerked me to the ground cutting the edges of my mouth. We ended up getting away, never were put on Ritalin, graduated from college, and have held good jobs our whole life.

If these kids don't have some long rap sheet where they are terrorising the whole community, let them pay for there youthful mistake with community service.