Bomb alert (again)

It is 8 a.m. on March 26th, and my landline phone is ringing, which is quite unusual since nobody knows this number. Generally, when this phone is ringing, I pick it up and listen to the robot encouraging me to go and support the WIU Leathernecks at their next game, but the season is over for months now.

No, this time, this is the University calling: they discovered two pieces of paper in Horrabin Hall announcing that "a terrible tragedy [will]occur Thursday 3-26-09". Then at 10:15 a.m., a piece of paper is found in the restroom of Stipes (where I in class), saying that a bomb would explode at 10:00 a.m. Fortunately, nothing happened that day.

This is not the first alert in Macomb. In October, two student have been arrested for driving at night with face masks, bulletproof vest, grenades, guns, and rifles with silencers. In December, there was a similar shooting threat found in the library during the first day of the finals' week. In February, an explosive device was found outside the Pace (one of the main student bar of Macomb). Even though most of the threats were obviously last resort action for student who did not study enough for a test or final, one cannot be somewhat worried. As these bad jokes multiply, people tend to ignore these threats. What if it happens someday?