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You didn't mention a diversionary tactic. Keep the LEO busy taking care of the kids, then they can't respond to something else.

Skiprr wrote:If the individual responsible isn't apprehended and jailed quickly, I fear we'll see more institutional soft-targets become similarly hoaxed the next few weeks.

In case you missed it, because the media certainly didn't jump on it after the wolf-cry in Los Angeles:

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas ... 703957.php

The Houston Independent School District received an email threatening widespread violence at unnamed campuses on Thursday, similar to messages sent earlier this week to Los Angeles and New York that were considered hoaxes.

District officials told parents in an automated phone call around 10 p.m. Wednesday that they did not deem the threat credible and that schools would be open Thursday.

But again, even though the threat is deemed to be not credible, the result isn't free to tax payers:

HISD called in all of its police officers on overtime Thursday morning to patrol schools, and tapped several other agencies, including the Houston, Bellaire and West University police departments, according to district spokeswoman Holly Huffman.

Deployed LEOs also, early this morning, began conducting random sweeps of school district buildings.

District officials confirmed that Dallas ISD and Miami-Dade public schools received nearly identical messages to the one sent to HISD. And these emails, officials said, were very similar to those sent a day earlier to the larger Los Angeles and New York districts.

One mother interviewed summed up the problem well, saying that these incidents are putting school districts in a tough situation. "If they don't do anything, they're criticized, and if they announce it, they're criticized. It's finals week. If the kids miss, their grades will be affected."