Facebook Threat Lands School Girls Behind Bars!
January 9th, 2011 - 8:30 pm ICT by GDBy Ranjan Bhaduri
Carson City, Jan 9, (THAINDIAN NEWS) In what can be described as the flip side of technology, six school girls have been arrested after setting up a “Attack a Teacher Day” event on Facebook. The social networking site which has over 550 million users, is often used by groups to invite new members and not all of them have noble intentions behind forming such groups. One of the arrested girls allegedly sent invitation to almost 100 students to take part in the event on Friday. The other 5 students have been accused of replying with threats against some teachers, as was confirmed by Dan Sadler, the principal of Carson Middle School. The school girls were booked under misdemeanor charge of giving threats. The names of the students were not divulged though. The students were arrested soon after another incident in which a student shot an assistant principal in Omaha after being suspended.
The Carson Middle School principal told the media entities that the police had to be informed because incidents of school shooting do take place in various parts of United States. In some instances, teenagers are also involved in such events. Five of the students are from the Carson City based school while the sixth one is a student of Eagle Valley Middle School. The school authorities were informed by a parent who found the Facebook post.
It could be possible that the whole thing was nothing more than fun but the school authorities did not take any chances. The cops said that it is not possible to know what they had in their mind when they came up with the invitation online. Those who responded mention specific teachers they wanted to hit, which is worrying.
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