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Posted by: kwflatbed



Police say the call came in around 9:30 a.m. warning authorities that a bomb would go off in the women's rest room at 11 a.m.
CBS

(WBZ) BEVERLY Beverly High School was evacuated Wednesday morning after someone phoned in a bomb threat.

Police say the call came in around 9:30 a.m. warning authorities that a bomb would go off in the women's rest room at 11 a.m.

Officers cleared out the school, sending students to an administrative building and the middle school.

A search of the high school turned up nothing.

Students and teachers were allowed to return just before noon.

No one was hurt.

Investigators are still trying to find the caller.

http://wbztv.com/topstories/local_story_290102232.html

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Posted by: Rock

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Originally Posted by kwflatbed Police say the call came in around 9:30 a.m. warning authorities that a bomb would go off in the women's rest room at 11 a.m.

Gotta give credit to those "authorities" who somehow knew that fat chic would be in the bathroom at 11 am. I heard she ate three burrito's and a bowl of chilli the night before!

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Posted by: DeputyFife

Published: 10/18/2007
False bomb scare evacuates Beverly High
By Cate Lecuyer
Staff writer



BEVERLY - More than 1,300 teachers and students walked about a mile down Sohier Road to two nearby school buildings after a false bomb scare evacuated Beverly High yesterday morning.
Acting Principal Sean Gallagher evacuated the building minutes after a secretary in the superintendent's office got an anonymous call around 9:40 a.m. saying a bomb in "a girls room" would go off at 11 a.m., Beverly police Sgt. Bill Page said. Staff led students to Briscoe Middle School on Sohier Road and the Memorial Building on Cabot Street while police searched the high school.
There is no written protocol that requires students to leave the campus during a bomb scare, Page said, but officials made the decision to get everyone a good distance away.
"Simply for safety reasons, it makes more sense to get them out of there," Page said. Using the ConnectEd technology, the school also sent out an automated phone message informing people there was a bomb threat.
While the students were away, Beverly police swept the school looking for a bomb, with assistance from the Fire Department and state police.
"I can assume that's a girls bathroom, but we checked everything," Page said. Police found nothing, and when there was no explosion by 11:15 a.m., the school was determined safe for teachers, staff and students to return to.
They walked in large masses back to the 1,300-student high school. Students refused to comment, saying they were instructed not to talk to the press as they filed back into the building.
Although mostly everyone left the campus during the evacuation, a couple of teachers who didn't have classes at the time stayed behind outside the high school. They talked casually about 100 feet from the entrance until about 11 a.m., when police pushed back the crowd and began backing up themselves. English teacher Claire Hart said the building was first evacuated when Gallagher announced over the intercom that there was a fire drill, and everyone began moving outside. Police cruisers and firetrucks were already in the parking lot.
"At first I thought it was a 911 drill for them," Hart said. Then Gallagher called a group of faculty together and told them it was a bomb scare and to walk their classes to either Briscoe or Memorial, where the superintendent's office is located.
"It was very well-handled," she said.

Gallagher said he was acting according to protocol.
Directly across the street at the Roger Conant Apartments, a group of people began gathering outside, wondering what was going on.
"Most of us got bits and pieces from the kids and teachers as they were walking by," resident Sandra Goudreau said. "It's kind of a scary thought because if there was a bomb, it would affect us."
Mother Jennifer Bowden stopped by the school around 11 a.m. to dismiss her daughter and couldn't get into the building.
"I was told there was a bomb," she said. She borrowed a cell phone and called her daughter, who had been evacuated to Briscoe.
"They should do something to make the kids feel safer," she said. "I don't feel that safe sending my kid to school anymore."

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Posted by: JW12

Some kid didn't study for a test that day!

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Posted by: DeputyFife

Published: 10/25/2007
Student to be charged in bomb threat
By Paul Leighton
Staff writer



BEVERLY - Police plan to charge a 15-year-old high school student with calling in the false bomb threat that forced the evacuation of Beverly High School last week.
Detective Jeff Liacos said the student, whom he would not identify because the student is a juvenile, called in the threat on his cell phone after he asked to leave class for a bathroom break.
Liacos, the Police Department's juvenile officer, said he learned the identity of the suspect after the boy boasted to other students about making the threat. Liacos said those students voluntarily came forward with the information.
"He was kind of bragging about it, to his demise," Liacos said. "You have to laud the school population (for coming forward)."
Liacos filed a criminal complaint in Salem Juvenile Court on Monday. The suspect will be charged with making a false bomb threat and with disruption of a school assembly. He could face some time in custody if convicted.
A judge could require the boy's family to pay for the cost of evacuating the school, Liacos said.
The boy is due to appear in Salem Juvenile Court on either Nov. 5 or 6, Liacos said.
Acting high school Principal Sean Gallagher said the 15-year-old boy has been disciplined by the school, but he would not say what the discipline is or whether the boy has been suspended. Authorities evacuated about 1,300 students and teachers from the high school after the bomb threat was made at about 9:30 on the morning of Oct. 17. The students walked to Briscoe Middle School and the Memorial Building, where they stayed for about two hours while authorities checked the high school.
When no bomb was found, the students and teachers walked back to the high school.
Gallagher, a former Salem police officer, praised Liacos and Beverly police for their investigation and credited the students who came forward with information on the suspect.
"In this day and age, sometimes you don't receive that cooperation among your peers," Gallagher said. "I'm really impressed with our student body for taking the initiative. They're making the statement that we're not going to allow this type of stuff to go on." \

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