Ashlee O'Connell
02/27/09
10:22 A.M.
Japanese police arrested a 16-year-0ld boy today on suspicion of trying to manufacture a bomb to blow up his classmates. Materials and ingredients to make hand-made bombs were found at his home in the northern city of Sapporo. The threat was seen when the boy sent a threatening message to a classmate’s cell phone: “I’m the killing god. I’ll kill. Wiping out those who have made fool of me is what I live for.” The boy reportedly got tips from the Internet on how to make home-made bombs. Police confiscated explosive powder, some chemical substances, and other items from his house. Over fifty items were confiscated, which would have been enough to make explosives as deadly as the 2005 London attacks.
After the Columbine attacks and Virginia Tech in the U.S., you would think the U.S. is the one with the problem with violence in schools. It is scary to think that all over the world there are kids with a “hit-list” on different classmates. It makes me also feel better and like something is being done about this that when the threat was made against the student, there was actually something done about it and teachers did not just take it lightly. In the U.S., the Columbine shootings could’ve been prevented by taking the threats more serious. The U.S. can learn from this situation and take their example into our own hands by taking threats of violence in education as serious as they really are.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,500691,00.html
3 comments:
This also makes you think of what happened here in the US influenced this boy over there.. ya know!
Its crazy how people think to do these things but they do and its very sad.
I think it's a great thing that they found all the bomb-related items so they were able to stop something horrible from happening and no innocent lives being taken away.
I agree with your comment. The official did a really good job on noticing the clues and the anger this teen had.Not only the U.S., but everyone can learn from this situation in order to prevent this form happening.
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