Comments on: Alarm Clock Prank Brings Felony Charges

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

[anonbychoice]

Given the fact the world has CHANGED since 9/11, these "pranks" are no l onger "harmless" not when they break into a school building with a stolen key (burglary)
Posted by newster1 at 01:26 PM : Jun 18, 2007

Hmm I must have read a different story than you did. I thought it said the KEY was LOST for a year...and the school, trying to deal with minimal theft or break-ins, didn't change the locks?
Everyone has good points here...but I always believed innocent UNTIL proven guilty. Now everyone is guilty of "felony" crimes, if they sneeze and someone doesn't like it.

Lets GET REAL America.....How do you break in when you have a key???

[mitch0927]

Always someone in the crowd that wants to sue someone. Guess you like giving money to lawyers too.

[pheweck4]

I hope that when these young people are aqquited of the rediculous charges they suite the hell out of the school district and the principal. The young people of today have so much BS placed on them by this paranoid nation and it's leaders. I my day and school we would have gotten an 'atta boy' from the principal as he beat our butts.

[mitch0927]

cat1dog5075,l
Thought that would get a rise out of someone. I see too many times where high school children who get caught doing something and getting away with it, so later in life, they do something more severe, which means they never learned a lesson in the first place. Yeah, I did plenty of *** while in high school I wished I hadn't done. Do I live in fear? Nahhhhh...Am I uptight? Nahhhhh, probably one of the most laid back guys you'll ever be acquainted with. Several times this past school year, calls were made to 911 about bombs planted in schools, and each school had to do the same drill every time. Evacuate the school, search it for bombs and call the parents and yada yada yada. Point is, these sort of pranks can't be taken lightly anymore because of the seriousness of the chance one could be real. And yes, you can make a bomb out of an alarm clock, C-4 goes a long way, so does nitro. The authorities have to expect the worse when it comes to this.

[gunownerdan]

Is it time to ban alarm clocks yet?

[cbsjbo]

This just in:

"The Terrorists have won!"

[cat1dog5075]

Hey Mitch - You must be fun to live with - Talk about anal - You said - %u201CThese kids should be set as examples to other kids%u201D - Yea Mitch - Lets all nail them to the cross - I bet you never did anything wrong in your life - You said - %u201CLooks like a bunch of kids are posting on here%u201D - Looks like your an uptight know it all who lives in fear

[ms38654ob]

"Everyone is overlooking the fact that they BROKE INTO THE SCHOOL!!..."

Well, I "broke" into my HS shortly before graduation too, me and about 50 other kids. We wrote various things on blackboards and planted an empty liquor bottles in several teacher's desks... Everyone got a laugh out of it.

Breaking in was a matter of opening a basement window that had been unlocked for just this occasion. It had been done many times before by previous classes, so it was no surprise. Nothing was ever destroyed or damaged and was considered a right of passage.

What did last year's class of this HS do? Probably something similar.

[tvgenius]

So the key had been missing for a year, yet nobody did anything?

[mitch0927]

Looks like a bunch of kids are posting on here. Breaking into a federally funded school or office building might be a felony as well. Guess none of you were in Oklahoma City April 19th, 1995. Of course most people are going to react in the worst way, especially when it has to do with school children. These kids should be set as examples to other kids wanting to pull pranks like this. The school administration said the key was lost over a year ago, why wasn't the lock changed? You kids think adults are over reacting with this? Then why do most kids over react when they are told what to do? I would give 80% blame on the parents, not teaching their children how to properly respect authorities.

I have seen such a rise in this it makes me sick. Since most children have a computer, they think they are the foremost authority on everything, and their childish demeanor makes them look downright stupid. I think these children need to have some %u201CScared Straight%u201D stuff thrown at them, like sticking them in prisons with people that wished they had done things differently.