Monday, September 17, 2012

Prank Call to LSU!


        East  Baton  Rouge  Parish  Police  received  a  call  at  10:32  a.m.  Monday,  September  17th,  2012  saying  that  there  was  a  bomb  on  campus.  The  university  issued  a  campus  alert  informing all  the  teachers  and  students  to  “Please  evacuate  as  calmly  and quickly  as  possible.”  Students  at  Louisiana  State  University  in  Baton  Rouge  had  to  stay  evacuated  from  campus  Monday  for  over  four  hours  after  the  police  received  this  phone  call  claiming  there  was  a  bomb  on  the  university  grounds.  A  state  police  SWAT  team  got  sent  to  the  Louisiana  State  University  to  help  out  with  evacuations  of  all  the  students  and  teachers.  Sgt.  Len  Marie  said  that  if  they  needed  to  they  would  bring  bomb  dogs  to  the  site.  That  obviously  shows  that  this  situation  was  indeed  very  serious.  When  the  call  was  made  there  was  no  specific  buildings  mentioned.  The  last  text  message  from  school  officials asked  the  students  to “Stay  off  campus  unless  directed  to  return,”  and  to check  the  school  website  for  updates.  The  officials  added  that  the  investigation  was  still  ongoing.  
      I  find  this  extremely  suspicious  because  last  Friday,  the University  of  Texas  and  North  Dakota  State  University  both  had  to issue  a  campus-wide  alert  after  threats  that turned  out  to be  completely  phony.  I’m  relating  this  phone  call  to  the other  phone  calls  about  campus  bombings.  I’m  going  to  try  to stay  updated  and  see  if  the  news  says  anything  more  about  other  strange  calls  about  bombings.  What  if  a  real  bombing  does  happen?  Why  would  anybody  make  a  call like  that?  It’s  like  somebody  pulling  a  fire  alarm  in  our  school.  
       This  could  affect  my  future  because  I  am  going  to  be  going  to  college  in  two  years.  What  if  Louisiana  State  University  does  get  bombed?  That  is  the  college  that  I  want  to  go  to.  If  a  bombing  does  happen  that  could  also  cause  even  more issues  in  the United  States.  We  would  probably  go  into  war  and  we  already  have  enough  things  in  the  world  to worry  about.  So  we  can  only  hope  that  this  caller  is  just  insane  or stupid  and  nothing  will actually  happen.

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