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FBI thwarts "another Columbine" in Ohio planned for 05/14

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A high school student at Arlington High School in Ohio planned on locking down the school and killing 60 people using hand grenades. School has been canceled for today.
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8 responses // FBI thwarts "another Columbine" in Ohio planned for 05/14

  • And let's keep convincing ourselves that the increase in violence and movies has no effects on children and teens. ok.
    cala
  • Glad the FBI is spending it's time looking for crazy high school students. Don't worry about that guy who did that thing in NY to the two big buildings.
    What are the local authorities being paid to do? Maybe they're looking for BinLaden...
    1percent
  • I'm just happy it was thwarted. 1percent, just some background on how these things come to light and how they are reported... since I have some behind the scenes knowledge from a previous job.

    A website is monitored by the employees of the company, not the government (in most cases). Posts like this are often reported by several other users or are caught by the people up keeping the site. From there they escalate it to authorities, and include information that was provided upon registration, IP, Bcookie, and other things of that sort. For something like this it would be escalated to an overseeing authority, like the FBI, for them to distribute the information to the local authorities.
    Why you may ask? Well, they can check their databases and the databases of other authorities to see if the suspects are involved in any other illegal activity. Then they will be able to provide a more complete picture of what is going on and what needs to happen instead of a random web-developer calling up a police chief going on about how the bcookie of a scary post was tracked back to their town.
    So from there the local authorities go to the persons door and confront and contain the situation as best they can.

    From the recent increase in school shootings and violence a lot of websites that cater to this age demographic are not taking posts of this nature lightly. Being somebody who has had to flag these for escalation I can say I'm happy to see that the process works, and that some random employee of the site helped save so many lives. They should definitely get a couple days off.
    clarity_kat
  • Cala -

    They did a study recently on the effect of violent video games on children and found only a very small amount of increase in aggression, not nearly enough to create killers. I'm willing to bet good money that they'd find the same kind of data if they studied the effect of violent movies.

    http://current.com/items/88941995_harvard_researchers_v...

    The problem is nothing as simple as violent media. It goes much deeper and has much more to do with modern school culture, social pressures, and parenting.
    Allsunday
  • why do people think that contemporary violence is the result of tv/videos games/internet/myspace?

    how then would you rationalize atrocious crimes that were committed through out history? what then influenced old-time pillaging and lynching?

    on second thought, maybe it was plain old literature. like the bible ;-)

    oneparkave
  • What the heck is going on? These kids are crazy. What causes this? Is it the parents? Is it television? Is it video games? Whats going wrong here? What makes a child want to take the lives of other kids? Why does this child see death as the only solution? If he was picked on, bullied or pushed around did he stop to ask why this was happening and try to change? Who did he tell? What was done? Did this child make obvious to teachers or other kids he was having problems coping with reality? What are the major contributing factors to this possibly volatile situation? How many more kids are thinking about or are currently planning something that could take innocent lives? whats being done right now to prevent this from ever coming close to being a reality again?
    natedawson
  • Although video games may play a part I think the parents are the ones that impact this behavoir more than anything else. I bet if you were to do a little research, you would find that most of these issues start at home.
    grhoagie
  • crazy behavior no doubt, but it does make me wonder (a) how grateful I am - on occasion - that the FBI is watching and (b) how difficult their job is to track/mine/interpret that much data.
    flylulu

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