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Jun 30 2006, 07:53 AM
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dripping destruction ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,282 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 21,929 |
well, i was listening to the cover, and i realized something.
i just realized how lax security is at my school. i mean, sure, we're across for a police station, but there's not that many police there during the day, it's mostly a place they part thier cruisers when it's not thier shift. there certainly isnt' a swat team here. nearest one would be at least 2 hours away, as that's how far the next biggest city is. personally, i don't think birmingham or nashville has one, so i think it'd come down to atlanta and that's 4 hours. factor in that my high school has very few windows (probably 10 in all, for over 100 classrooms, and the fire exscapes are easily blocked, and it's easy to see how the school could be taken over. more discouraging is the fire code has required fire doors put in, and these close when the fire alarm goes off. However, these doors can also be locked, leading to a trapped in senario. the entire school wouldn't be able to be taken over by a few students armed with shotguns, although they could take out an entire pod, sans 2 rooms (the only ones with fire escapse), which would be about... 120 students. the most disheartening thing is the memory of the russian school thing, where the terroists took over a school. i never looked up how many kids died, but watching a bit of TV was quite enough. but schools are soft targets. even if every school had armed security guards, a team of terrorists would be able to pull of the greatest terror event of all time. i mean, sure, blowing up buildings is pretty terrifying, but targeting kids is worse. makes me afraid for the day someone actually does it. hope it never comes. |
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Jun 30 2006, 07:56 AM
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The police comes a lot to my school because students are always punching eachother. About security security, I haven't exactly thought about it the way you did. I'm freaked out now.
Fcuk you! |
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Jun 30 2006, 08:11 AM
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dripping destruction ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,282 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 21,929 |
policia!
mmm. yea. it's amazing how unsafe schools are. quite frankly, there would be massive panic if this happened in america. people wouldn't be going to school, etc. anyways, i just realized. my school doesn't have to wait for swat. there's an army base nearby with a garrison. they'd probably call that up. so i, at least, am somewhat safer. |
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Jun 30 2006, 08:14 AM
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My dad got a job in New York and asked me and my sister to go with him. I declined the offer because of personal issues and also because I'm scared of the US. It's an insecure place to live in. I already feel a little insecure in Belgium, if I was in the US, I don't know what I'lld do.
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Jun 30 2006, 08:29 AM
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At my old high school we had quite a few terror scares, bomb threats, shootings, and drug trafficing. Eventually, during my sophmore year, the school finally decided that enough was enough and they needed better security. So they decided to have 4 police officers present at all times, had metal detectors put in, 30 security cameras, and a police officer in a crusier outside. It was great because after all that we only had 2 shootings and 1 all out fight; much better then the custom.
If something like that were to happen at my old high school it wouldn't get too far. The high school is located in a very urban neighborhood so we would have enough police presence quickly. The only problem I can see with that school is that the way its designed, someone could easily block off the two roads that lead into our school and cut off any way of getting help through. |
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Jun 30 2006, 09:09 AM
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my school has x84730465320576425 security guards thats weird b/c we live in the "country" and there isnt much crime
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Jun 30 2006, 09:23 AM
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dripping destruction ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,282 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 21,929 |
are your security guards armed?
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Jun 30 2006, 10:50 AM
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If it helps, i would imagine that nashville would have a swat team, as a state capitol. but anyway.
my security guards name is stephen. he would probably give a terrorist directions in the event that he asked. not only does my school hav eno security, but it also does no trequire visitors to register |
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Jun 30 2006, 10:56 AM
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Well, that's pleasant.
I'm pretty sure our school is sort of safe. There are police cars occasionally around in the morning, but that's probably only because of traffic. Mmm...occasionally I'll see police men hanging around the school. >_> It's kind of weird, actually. We do have a fire station (I'm not sure about a police station though) nearby the school, so nothing's too far away... |
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Jun 30 2006, 11:55 AM
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dripping destruction ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,282 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 21,929 |
we have a security guard named larry.
he's like jason. |
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Jun 30 2006, 11:57 AM
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POWAPOSTA ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 3,169 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 30,725 |
my school has a police officer watching over us during lunch.
he doesn't have a name |
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