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i_like_my_dog_more t1_je5tf61 wrote

Reply to comment by kozynook in Police swarm multiple local schools after reports of shootings, believed to be hoax by Bmartin_

It could also be testing to see what responses are.

For example the email we got from our school, the police said every call will be responded to as if there is an active shooter. If you were looking to launch some kind of attack, that's good info, because it means police will commit resources.

So if someone wanted to do something really bad, they could trigger all of these calls to occupy police over a large area, and then go do the really bad thing while the police are busy responding to the fake calls.

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Weird_Major2489 t1_je5zkig wrote

That’s what I was worried for. If all the police rushed to initial responses it would leave the latter calls vulnerable.

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barnegatsailor t1_je8cwo9 wrote

When my mom was a kid someone called a bomb threat at the public school in her town in Jersey. While the cops were at the school, the bank was robbed.

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quietreasoning t1_je7eopy wrote

Sounds like something the white terror Republican extremists will do when they want to go bigger than shooting up the power grid.

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