TX H.S. teacher, principal suspect bomb in school - and don't evacuate

[elehhhhna]

Should be the subheadline on any writings about Mohammeds clock incident.

I would be BATSHIT over that if my kid was in the building at the time.

[Takket]

1. subheadline.........

"School not evacuated because it was never about the clock, it was about the Muslim".

[MohRokTah]

2. They KNEW it wasn't a bomb.

No evacuation.

No bomb squad.

They stick the kid and the device on an office with the principal to await the police.

4 cops interrogate the kid for nearly an hour in a room with the device.

THEY KNEW DAMN WELL AND GOOD THE KID DID NOT MAKE A BOMB.

The kid was engineering while Muslim and in Texasistan, that's a crime.

[elehhhhna]

3. Not *all Texans

I'm one

[MohRokTah]

4. You are in the minority. The majority are freakish bigots.

In Texasistan, being Muslim, Latino, or black is a crime.

If they could look at you and know you were liberal, that would probably be a crime, too.

[Igel]

5. That's not how it works.

That's just how a lot of people think it works. Too much tv.

(1) If there is a bomb, you avoid having a lot of people clustered together where it might do worse mayhem. Like hallways.

(2) If there is a bomb, you keep people under control until you know you need to evacuate them calmly. Then you evacuate them in stages. Otherwise people might get hurt during the mass rush when nobody would have gotten hurt if they were ignored.

(3) Most bomb scares are just that. Evacuate and you feed the ego. That produces more bomb scares. And, oddly, probably (I'd guess) make it more likely to up the ante or make people lackadaisical when it comes to an actual bomb threat.

(4) If you can see the bomb, you know where it's going to go off. It's highly unlikely that a bomb in room 13 will suddenly produce an explosion 300 yards away in room 239B. You evacuate near where the bomb is. Most bombs you can fit in a backpack don't have a 20 kilotons. They might crack a wall and would certainly mess up the ceiling tile.

(5) If you can see the bomb, then you call in people to evaluate it. Most people can't reliably tell the difference between a bomb that might work and something that looks like the way prop makers on tv shows produce bombs. Esp. people for whom that is not their actual job.

Humans really, truly suck at risk assessment and pretty much anything that involves stats.

[elehhhhna]

6. Do you put the bomb in the principal's office? Do you carry it around the school?

Try to keep up.