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Breaking: Entire Los Angeles school system shut down due to threat.....

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:23 am
by The Annoyed Man
Woking on finding a link, but it is live on TV right now. The entire Los Angeles School district has been shut down due to a telephoned threat of some kind of violence.

Re: Breaking: Entire Los Angeles school system shut down due to threat.....

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:28 am
by VMI77
The Annoyed Man wrote:Woking on finding a link, but it is live on TV right now. The entire Los Angeles School district has been shut down due to a telephoned threat of some kind of violence.

Did someone threaten to chew a pop tart into the shape of an assault rifle?

Re: Breaking: Entire Los Angeles school system shut down due to threat.....

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:35 am
by The Annoyed Man
VMI77 wrote:
The Annoyed Man wrote:Woking on finding a link, but it is live on TV right now. The entire Los Angeles School district has been shut down due to a telephoned threat of some kind of violence.

Did someone threaten to chew a pop tart into the shape of an assault rifle?
LOL. Actually, it was a "credible threat". According to Fox News, the threat was phoned in to a board member of LAUSD, and it was specific to date and time....but not to campus. There are over 900 schools in LAUSD, and all of them have been shut down until they can be searched. I presume that the threat is a bomb.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html

Re: Breaking: Entire Los Angeles school system shut down due to threat.....

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:50 am
by VMI77
The Annoyed Man wrote:
VMI77 wrote:
The Annoyed Man wrote:Woking on finding a link, but it is live on TV right now. The entire Los Angeles School district has been shut down due to a telephoned threat of some kind of violence.

Did someone threaten to chew a pop tart into the shape of an assault rifle?
LOL. Actually, it was a "credible threat". According to Fox News, the threat was phoned in to a board member of LAUSD, and it was specific to date and time....but not to campus. There are over 900 schools in LAUSD, and all of them have been shut down until they can be searched. I presume that the threat is a bomb.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html

Bomb threat is what it says on Drudge. These days a credible threat is any threat. But I think the statistics are that most bomb threats at schools are from students wanting out of school or just malicious fun.

Re: Breaking: Entire Los Angeles school system shut down due to threat.....

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 11:00 am
by Pariah3j
Early Christmas break ! Woot - LOL "rlol"

Is school still in session ? Since Christmas is next week I wouldn't think so - I always remember getting out more then a week ahead of Christmas. I know all the Colleges that I'm aware of are done or wrapping up with Finals this week.

Re: Breaking: Entire Los Angeles school system shut down due to threat.....

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 11:04 am
by Richbirdhunter
640,000 kids told to stay home. There are many more school districts in Los Angeles county that are not effected.

Re: Breaking: Entire Los Angeles school system shut down due to threat.....

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 11:08 am
by Papa_Tiger
If one is intent on actually causing harm, why would one announce it in advance rather than just claiming credit later?

Re: Breaking: Entire Los Angeles school system shut down due to threat.....

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 11:10 am
by SA_Steve
wow, this forum is better than DrudgeReport for breaking news

Re: Breaking: Entire Los Angeles school system shut down due to threat.....

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 11:12 am
by The Annoyed Man
Papa_Tiger wrote:If one is intent on actually causing harm, why would one announce it in advance rather than just claiming credit later?
Agreed, and advance warning is not the ISIS pattern, so it is probably not that particular org.

Re: Breaking: Entire Los Angeles school system shut down due to threat.....

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 11:16 am
by Pawpaw
The Annoyed Man wrote:
Papa_Tiger wrote:If one is intent on actually causing harm, why would one announce it in advance rather than just claiming credit later?
Agreed, and advance warning is not the ISIS pattern, so it is probably not that particular org.
Except that it could play right into their hands if this report is true: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/12/ ... d-to-yard/

Gather a bunch of kids at each school in one spot outside and make it an easy slaughter. :banghead:

Re: Breaking: Entire Los Angeles school system shut down due to threat.....

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 11:37 am
by Skiprr
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/15/cr ... c-schools/

The AP is now reporting the threat was electronic, i.e., an email, that originated overseas. How exactly the latter could be 100% determined, I don't know. Evidently, this is the largest school closure over a bomb threat in history.

Re: Breaking: Entire Los Angeles school system shut down due to threat.....

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 11:41 am
by Pariah3j
Skiprr wrote:http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/15/cr ... c-schools/

The AP is now reporting the threat was electronic, i.e., an email, that originated overseas. How exactly the latter could be 100% determined, I don't know. Evidently, this is the largest school closure over a bomb threat in history.
They are probably going by the IP range of the server/host that sent the email - now that can be spoofed but if it was a Kid hoping to get out of Finals - probably not spoofed.

Re: Breaking: Entire Los Angeles school system shut down due to threat.....

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 11:41 am
by Javier730
VMI77 wrote:
The Annoyed Man wrote:Woking on finding a link, but it is live on TV right now. The entire Los Angeles School district has been shut down due to a telephoned threat of some kind of violence.

Did someone threaten to chew a pop tart into the shape of an assault rifle?
:lol:

Re: Breaking: Entire Los Angeles school system shut down due to threat.....

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 11:42 am
by The Annoyed Man
Pariah3j wrote:
Skiprr wrote:http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/15/cr ... c-schools/

The AP is now reporting the threat was electronic, i.e., an email, that originated overseas. How exactly the latter could be 100% determined, I don't know. Evidently, this is the largest school closure over a bomb threat in history.
They are probably going by the IP range of the server/host that sent the email - now that can be spoofed but if it was a Kid hoping to get out of Finals - probably not spoofed.
This. It is possible to track IP with email.

Re: Breaking: Entire Los Angeles school system shut down due to threat.....

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 12:11 pm
by The Annoyed Man
Reuters reporting that the IP address is in Frankfurt Germany.