Something to do
Student charged for death threat:
This is a follow up to the story about the threat posted on MySpace against an Oregon teacher who “feared for his life” after it was discovered. The 17-year-old Alsea High School student says…wait for it….it was a prank…
The student, a senior at Alsea High School, posted an animated counter on the social networking site MySpace.com. Beneath the graphic, which counts down days, hours and minutes, are the words, “Until I kill Mr.” The math teacher’s name is included at the end of the sentence.
A sheriff’s office report said the teacher feared for his life after learning of the posting.
Benton County District Attorney Scott Heiser said his office planned to file disorderly conduct charges against the boy Thursday evening.
The student, who attends the rural kindergarten-through-12th-grade school of 151 students, also posted messages on his MySpace page saying he wants to die while “robbing a bank.” In addition, he wrote that he would like to meet Larry Phillips who, with a partner, robbed a North Hollywood, Calif., bank in 1997, then opened fire on the Los Angeles burgh with automatic weapons. Police killed Phillips in the shootout.
Several teenagers posted messages, apparently in response to the threat, on the student�s page. “The countdown you sent me basically rocks,” one wrote. Another said: “Your freakin’ comment about (the teacher) rocked my world!! I loved it.”
The sheriff’s report described the student as “soft-spoken and withdrawn.” He admitted to deputies that he posted the threat, the report said. But he also said that he sees his teacher “as a friend.” Publishing the statement, he said, was just “something to do.”
No, smoking is just something to do. What you did was a terroristic threat. I can see why now the teacher feared for his life.
Crossposted at TheTrenchcoat Chronicles.
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