Now The Fear and the Copycats: Security Alerts at Eight Libraries in the Wake of Viginia Tech

The Engineering Library at the University of Minnesota was one of 8 buildings evacuated after a typed note was found. No mention of what the note said.

University of Maryland at College Park: e-mail stating that a bomb was “in a book in a library.”

Library at the University of Texas at Austin: Threatening note found. No mention of what the note said. It was the 5th note found on campus since the Va. Tech shootings. This is where George Bush lived when governor of Texas.

West Port High School in Ocala, Florida. Someone found a handwritten note in a book drop. A 10th grade kid was going to blow up the school because his teachers were "going to fail him."

Merrill F. West High School in Tracy, California: A 17 year old taping threatening notes at various places around the campus, including the library.

Durham County (N.C.) Library’s Main Library: A telephoned bomb threat.

Longmont (Colo.) Public Library: Bomb scare, suspicious package found near the library’s mail-sorting area. Turned out to be filled with plastic bags.

and then the one that happened here in the town of Edmonds, about a half hour north of Seattle.
Edmonds Community College: Multiple bomb threats made by a 16 year who didn't want to go to class.
The kicker:
he recruited a person in England to call and make the threats.

Think of all the disruptions, the evacuations, the lock downs.

And to all you future maniacs leave the libraries alone they got enough to worry about.


Via the ALA