Hum Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Pennsylvania Boy Charged With Making Web Threats PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A 12-year-old boy is accused of making death threats against his teachers and fellow students in an online chat room for fans of horror movies, police said. The boy, who was not identified, was charged Tuesday with making terroristic threats and criminal attempt to possess instruments of crime. The private school also was not identified. He was evaluated at a hospital and was to be turned over to juvenile authorities, police said. Police began investigating after a woman in Portland, Oregon saw the threats on the Web site www.horror.com. The woman, Stacey Weighall, said the boy wrote "I'm going insane," that "I'm going to kill my teacher and a lot of other people in my school." Weighall called police in Pittsburgh, who contacted the FBI. After obtaining the boy's name from the Web site's owner, police went to his home with a search warrant. A steak knife was found in the boy's school backpack, police said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jymi Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 thats a bit stupid, are they going to arrest me if i said i want to have a threesome with the olsen twins? EDIT: olsen twins are gay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwBen Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 EDIT: olsen twins are gay What you been smokin? :blink: :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jymi Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 my sister has all their videos, dolls and posters they are so queer, they cant act and they have alien heads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimeryme Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 How is that the same jymi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newsend Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 my sister has all their videos, dolls and postersthey are so queer, they cant act and they have alien heads Don't lie. You know you like to play with their dolls and watch their videos. :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BananaMan's Girl Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 I thought if females liked one another they were called lesibans. Aren't men gay, and women lesbian? Or are you insinuating that the olsen twins are male? :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomis_nehc Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 my sister has all their videos, dolls and postersthey are so queer, they cant act and they have alien heads I kinda agrees with you. I don't really see the appeal... mmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiLViEtDuDe917 Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 lol, dont tell me that hes from iraq or whatever. is this what america has turned into? confining little boys to juvi? heh next thing you know they be putting 9 and 80 year olds in jail for downloading music, oh wait, they already do! what a dumass country this is becoming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzie22 Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Nothing wrong with the olsen twins :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToastGodSupreme Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 my sister has all their videos, dolls and postersthey are so queer, they cant act and they have alien heads ROFL :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malechai Veteran Posted December 11, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 11, 2003 PLEASE stay on topic people! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bayrider Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 well they did find a steak knife in the kids backpack... i dunno about u guys, but thats not right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macster Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 I have a schoolmate like him. He is always out to "kill" people but the other kids are really ###### too They pick on him all the time, knowing full well that he has a bad temper in the first place I dont think they need the police to get into this (might make the kid more angry) Some good old fashion parenting and teachers helping too can work much better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterHaze Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 It sounded pretty rediculous and overboard until I read that last line A steak knife was found in the boy's school backpack, police said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olaf Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Granted, they did find the knife, but I think it's ridiculous anybody would take so seriously something said in a chatroom... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salterbomb Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 for the people that think that calling the cops went overboard, the dude had a STEAK KNIFE in his backpack. he wasn't gonna be cuttin up some sirloin the cafeteria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statikk Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 There's probably more behind the story. Maybe kids were bullying him or beating on him after school and he felt he needed it for protection. That's definitely no excuse for carrying a knife to school, but I refuse to believe he had the feelings he did for no reason. He should be punished, but so should the ones that drove him to it. His post on the message board could have been so that he could express his feelings and possibly find people who were sympathetic to his situation. Also possibly as a cry for help, which was answered. The call to the police could have saved the life of some of his classmates/teachers as well as his own. Carting the boy off to juvi though isn't the proper solution to the poor kids problem. The severity of the situation would also differ with age. A child carring a knife to school is definitely wrong, but I carry a knife with me everywhere I go everyday. If I made a post about killing someone the cops would always find my knife on me whether I intended to or not. Do you think that post should be enough to incriminate me though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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