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would you have bet your life that trustafarian was joking?
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:22 PM Author: Exciting volcanic crater i'd have bet a lot, but not my life. i just wouldn't go that far. even a 1% chance isn't worth it. trustafarian is a fucking moron for not realizing the stakes.
the dean had a choice -- betting lives, even on really great odds, when there's minimal cost to him to refuse to bet, is an easy choice.
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 12:08 AM Author: 180 area Maybe. But it was still a joke. Everyone on this board knew it was a joke, and he shouldn't be punished for it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978952) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 2:22 AM Author: Adventurous Flickering Den Would I have gone to class? Yes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7979568) |
Date: April 21st, 2007 11:24 PM Author: Maize harsh lay legal warrant Measured against his life being completely ruined by involving the FBI, perhaps. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978646) |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:27 PM Author: Exciting volcanic crater maybe if you were related to the loser. i'm not going to bet my life for some other fucktard. go on, break into my house in the middle of the night... see if i wait to see whether you're just a junky looking for some change to steal, or whether you're there to kill me. i'll put one right between your eyes without hesitation.
my life is worth more than a strangers, if it's a tossup, and the stranger creates the situation in which I need to make the choice. trustafarian put himself in this situation. i know it sucks and i feel bad - but he clearly is an idiot. and so is life...
are you telling me you never alter your behavior in anticipation of the bar? i do... i've walked away from a lot of situations in which i'd typically have reacted in a much more aggressive fashion. once i'm a lawyer i can go back to being more relaxed.. until then i'm vigilant. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 2:10 AM Author: Beady-eyed cream locale faggot firefighter (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7979537) |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:25 PM Author: Opaque Contagious Depressive enough already you douchebag.
and yes I would have bet my life, given some return of course. |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:28 PM Author: Exciting volcanic crater you really think he would have sucked you off to buy your silence? and you'd trade a bj from a dude for a gamble w your life? god that's fucking sad. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978678) |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:33 PM Author: Buck-toothed meetinghouse Would you have bet your life if the same message was posted somewhere other than xo? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978723) |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:46 PM Author: Opaque Contagious Depressive no. and I am familiar with trustafarian too - enough so to know he wasn't going to shoot up hastings. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978827) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 12:10 AM Author: 180 area That it was xoxo is a good point. Every post on here is flame. It was a stupid thing for him to post in light of recent events, but his life shouldn't be ruined over it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978960) |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:26 PM Author: Unhinged cobalt newt time to stfu, tyia (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978660) |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:27 PM Author: Buck-toothed meetinghouse Probably not. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978666) |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:35 PM Author: Bisexual Violent Travel Guidebook Theater you're a huge, gaping, aids-filled pussy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978737) |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:29 PM Author: Garnet National Security Agency i would bet my life that you're a short, ugly, pathetic loser-fucker IRL. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978687) |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:32 PM Author: Exciting volcanic crater wow. with thinking like that you're not going to make it past 35, you nontttrad loserfuck. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978717) |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:35 PM Author: Garnet National Security Agency completely incomprehensible. explain how ttt faggots like you can be so unaware of how much you suck. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978746) |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:39 PM Author: Exciting volcanic crater whatever flamebait. you're as stupid as they fucking come. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978778) |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:37 PM Author: Beady-eyed cream locale faggot firefighter Can someone out this TTT faggot? Whoever is TTT enough to say "T7" should not be allowed to post on this board (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978759) |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:34 PM Author: Beady-eyed cream locale faggot firefighter Well said. Why the fuck is this TTT moron even posting on here? I know anything goes on here, but can we at least make an exception for stupid-fucking-faggot-TTTStud-never-seen-a-pussy nigger over here? Can someone out this TTT faggot please? This guy is so horny he beats off to his own post about having sex with imaginary midgets. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978733) |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:35 PM Author: crystalline ticket booth police squad No. And while I do feel sorry for Trustafarian I think this is the right way to look at it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978739) |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:36 PM Author: Garnet National Security Agency really you wouldn't bet your life for, say, a million dollars? hell i would do it for $100K if i got to see the wgwag edit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978752) |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:38 PM Author: Exciting volcanic crater congrats - you just outted yourself as a pathetic poor.
i wouldn't bet my life for less than a couple billion. and even then i'd really have to like the odds. i'm just worth too damn much alive. |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:39 PM Author: crystalline ticket booth police squad Maybe if I just opened the thread and saw WGWAG.
If the original thread was also copy/posted there probably not. |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:43 PM Author: Garnet National Security Agency the chances that there is a genuine copycat killer lurking somewhere in SF is much greater than the likelihood that this was a legitimate threat. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978800) |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:45 PM Author: crystalline ticket booth police squad Sure. But I still think the fault lies w/ the poster and not the reporter. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978819) |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:46 PM Author: Exciting volcanic crater chances... chances.... try to live irl for just one fucking second. if you were the dean, in real life, would you hesitate for even a second to do what hastings did? of course not. trustafarian has got to be functionally retarded to not realize the possibility that (with people like Leiter around) Hastings would hear about this AND that they would call the feds.
get over it you fucking knobgobbling assmunch. |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:47 PM Author: Garnet National Security Agency lol hilarious how you keep replying to me bcs i don't read any of your posts! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978833) |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:49 PM Author: Exciting volcanic crater really, so how did you end up in my thread you fucking idiot. nice selfPWN! well done! totally in character for your "fuckingmoronschtick" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978843) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 2:24 AM Author: Adventurous Flickering Den "if you were the dean, in real life, would you hesitate for even a second to do what hastings did?"
The incentives to CYA and pray to the PR gods are powerful, indeed. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 2:25 AM Author: Beady-eyed cream locale faggot firefighter T7stud is a moron
TITCR |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:59 PM Author: saffron school toaster I would have bet your life. consider the context: xoxo, casa de dipshit trolls consider the source: trustafarian, who's most notable for dissing the 1L girls at boalt. do you think :D (or whoever) was going to hatefuck jill f (or whoever)? did you notify the intended victim of the impending hatefuck, so she could armour her loins? |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 12:06 AM Author: Exciting volcanic crater actually, the context was the www. i have said before, if this was a private chatroom i might be more sympathetic. with the likes of leiter around, it was a stupid fucking thing to do -- aside from tasteless and not particularly original. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7978949) |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:59 PM Author: ruddy set sex offender Remember that the original thread said, "Just decided not to do a murder-suicide copycat at Hastings Law" (and then added "Maybe tomorrow"). So, would I have bet my life that Trustafarian was not going to go GI Cho on UC Hastings that day? Definitely. Who posts that they *aren't* going to do something like that, and then does it anyway?
Now, would I be worried that Trustafarian might have been serious about tomorrow? Maybe. But tomorrow gives me enough time to investigate it, contact law enforcement, and make an assessment, all without evacuating the school and causing unnecessary public attention. If I couldn't get sufficient clarity, I might still be worried about what might have happened tomorrow and maybe shut the school down until it could be determined. Either way, I think what actually happened was a gross overreaction. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 12:09 AM Author: Exciting volcanic crater you have got to be flaming here. you either perceive a risk or you don't. if there's a chance the guy is serious you don't then immediatly assume he's open and hoest about his timing, or not prone to changing his mind on timing. stfu you tttsef. i hope you get outted and likewise get fucked for the bar over your idiotic blind support for this idiot.
i'd bet big money you're a republican. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 12:21 AM Author: ruddy set sex offender I think it's perfectly reasonable to assume he's honest about his timing. If you think he's serious, then he's being honest about his feelings already, why would he then lie about his timing? I'm more worried about the people you know are messed up but who aren't open about their intentions.
You seem to have a lot of pent-up anger. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 1:23 AM Author: Exciting volcanic crater you can't possible have broken 160 on the lsat. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7979351) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 1:55 AM Author: unholy death wish they did consult with law enforcement first. the FBI and SF police reccomended that they shut the school down. So they did, about 5 hours after the post was reported.
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 1:21 AM Author: honey-headed comical patrolman piazza It was obviously a joke in bad taste, and I would have hung around Hastings all day with not the least worry that there was going to be a gunman storming the place.
It wasn't a 1% chance, but more like the chance that you might get run over walking across the street. It could happen, yet every day you cross the street anyway. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 1:40 AM Author: Cerise Indirect Expression TITCR, see below for elaboration (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7979422) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 2:04 AM Author: Beady-eyed cream locale faggot firefighter TITCR (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7979513) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 1:28 AM Author: mind-boggling big-titted partner crackhouse Sure. Just like when I cross the street and "bet my life" that the oncoming car will stop at the red light. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7979370) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 2:24 AM Author: Adventurous Flickering Den It's not worth it, man! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7979573) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 2:28 AM Author: saffron school toaster do you realize when you have to suddenly step on the brakes, you take your life in your foot's hands? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7979588) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 1:31 AM Author: Puce French Chef Fanboi yes
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 1:38 AM Author: Drunken Bespoke Hunting Ground Pistol No.
but I'm 99.99999999% sure he was, Hastings is just milking this for publicity. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 1:39 AM Author: Cerise Indirect Expression this is quite possibly the dumbest thought experiment i have ever seen concocted.
what does it mean to "bet your life?" you seem to think it means that if there is ANY chance you might die, then you should not follow that course of action. that is a bit naive. after all, we drive cars, have sex, take walks -- each of which carries a CHANCE of death. clearly, it matters what the payoff is.
so, what's the payoff to "betting" that Trustafarian was joking? well: no evac, no career destruction, no celebration of douchebaggery, and no stupid fucking threads like this one. compared to the chance that he was serious ( essentially zero), yeah, i'll take that bet.
get a brain asshat. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 1:40 AM Author: Drunken Bespoke Hunting Ground Pistol you could've just said yes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7979421) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 1:42 AM Author: Cerise Indirect Expression i prefer the vitriol. this is xo, yes? i didn't accidentally walk into a nance convention for the criminally weak and stupid did i? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7979431) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 1:41 AM Author: Exciting volcanic crater actually, no -- the point is that there is basically no reason the hastings dean wouldn't react if he came across the thread (or was shown it by a Leiter-type). he only stands to benefit (stop massacre, or get attention). the point is that hastings didn't need to bet at all -- simply needed to call the feds. Trusty is a fucking retard for not understanding the likely outcome. he should not be an attorney. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7979429) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 1:45 AM Author: Cerise Indirect Expression "the point is that there is basically no reason the hastings dean wouldn't react if he came across the thread (or was shown it by a Leiter-type)"
i'm sorry, i didn't realize that we were pretending to be a TTT Dean in a politically sensitive situation who (i'm sure) didn't actually think anything was going to happen, but simply had to react to appear vigilant. he wasn't "betting his life." he was being a dean in the wake of a tragedy. maybe if your hypo didn't suck so bad, your point could actually manifest itself.
EDIT: that means i agree with you about what appears to be your main (and meaningless) point that the dean acted rationally, but it's an uninteresting point and has nothing to do with betting lives. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 1:48 AM Author: Exciting volcanic crater if i was the fucktarded fuck who was about to post the post in question i might stop and actually go so far as to pretend to be the TTT dean in a politically sensitive situation, and say "shit, i want to be an attorney, and i don't like being interviewed by feds -- as my own best counsel, i advise against this course of action". forsight is not exactly rocket science. basic stuff. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7979453) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 1:50 AM Author: Cerise Indirect Expression i doubt he thought (however incorrectly) that the post would have been brought to the dean's attention. it's really not that often (read: only once) that an xo post has shut down a school. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7979465) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 1:57 AM Author: Exciting volcanic crater i agree he didn't think that. i believe that's evidence that he's fucking retarded. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7979491) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 2:13 AM Author: ruddy set sex offender What you fail to understand is that this is not a matter of foresight, because you cannot escape your hindsight bias. Of course it seems like a stupid thing to say now. But that doesn't mean that we should add punishment to our criticism.
Think about your own posts. Why do you accuse me of being a Republican (also presumably you're hating on Republicans), say you hope I fail the bar, and claim that my LSAT is lower than 160? You probably do not seriously believe any of these things. But you said it because you wanted to and because you don't think it will have any consequences.
I bet you didn't stop to think that maybe I could go to Reputation Defender or something, or somehow try to figure out who you are, sue you for defamation or something, etc. Of course the chances of all this happening (and being successful) are close to 0%. But that's what you think now. I bet that's what Trustafarian thought when he posted also. If I were successful in outing you or suing you, anybody who read this thread would tell you, "Wtf? Why would you have posted all this stupid stuff? You had nothing to gain and (as it turns out) everything to lose."
So yeah, think about that the next time you're so quick to condemn somebody for their posts. I'm not saying you shouldn't criticize stupid posts or bad jokes for what they are. But don't assume that somebody who makes a mistake did it because they were retarded. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 2:17 AM Author: Exciting volcanic crater i srsly think you're a republican, and i think repdef is an entirely different issue. i'm all about saying whatever the fuck we want. free speech has consequences sometimes. it's a shame that trusty had to learn the hard way, but the fact that he did most likely indicates that being a lawyer was probably not the best path for him anyway. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7979557) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 2:18 AM Author: Beady-eyed cream locale faggot firefighter This is the fucking dumbest argument I've heard. You obviously failed out of your Con Law class in Cooley. Please die. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7979562) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 2:20 AM Author: godawful corn cake You are getting majorly flamed/PWN3D here. Do us all a favor and sit on it already. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7979564) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 10:23 AM Author: Boyish University TITAAYYS! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7980257) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 1:42 AM Author: swollen cordovan forum Yes. And you're a TTT motherfucking shiteating faggot if you believe otherwise.
DIE. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 2:05 AM Author: Beady-eyed cream locale faggot firefighter TITCR. Elegantly put. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7979518) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 2:41 AM Author: Galvanic sick house EVERYBODY DANCE NOW (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7979654) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 2:52 AM Author: High-end pit round eye From my limited knowledge of this board, there appears to be a lot of posters and lurkers who love to forward posts on this board to cause havoc. Since this poster has been here longer than I have, he has no excuse for not knowing.
It's not too hard to work through in your head:
I am posting this to a site frequented by a number of people who take pleasure in causing trouble. There is a high probability that someone will forward this to Hastings or to law enforcement.
Some nutjob in Virginia just shot up a school and killed 30+ people. Within hours, every media station in the country was criticizing the administration for taking two hours to email the VaTech students about a murder-suicide at a dorm.
The response at Hastings is easy to predict. They're going to call the FBI and either lockdown the school or heighten security. They won't care how credible the threat is. The name of the game is CYA. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 3:10 AM Author: saffron school toaster Boy, hindsight is sure 20-20, ain't it? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7979831) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 3:34 AM Author: High-end pit round eye Which part are you saying is only clear in hindsight?
That this board has people who get off on causing trouble by forwarding posts to schools? That in the days after a school massacre authorities are going to overreact? |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 10:20 AM Author: Exciting volcanic crater well put. see my post about the plummeting prestife of xoxo and the retard worshipping. i think there's an explanation, but it isn't pretty. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7980253) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 12:22 PM Author: honey-headed comical patrolman piazza At VaTech, two people are murdered, and the school does nothing even though there is actual murderer on the loose.
At Hastings, someone posts dumb joke on interent, school closed.
Talk about a huge overreaction. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 3:08 AM Author: frisky sandwich Holy lord T7stud is an incredible moron. Are we sure this isn't pensive flame? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7979829) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 10:24 AM Author: crimson giraffe station He's just a really stupid person who thinks he's the shit. Not flame. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7980260) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 10:27 AM Author: curious cruise ship If true, that's incredibly sad. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7980265) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 10:35 AM Author: Exciting volcanic crater who outted me? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7980273) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 12:26 PM Author: Hairraiser cuckoldry Dude, shut the fuck up. Go die already. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7980570) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 1:17 PM Author: Cerise Indirect Expression chances OP is <14 yrs old? i'll put it at 3-1.
But I won't BET MY LIFE ON IT.
ROFL |
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 1:26 PM Author: crawly free-loading chapel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7980743) |