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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: floppy slap-happy tanning salon headpube 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: Pungent Rigor 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: Walnut dilemma 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: khaki sticky public bath 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: floppy slap-happy tanning salon headpube 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: white electric property (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: snowy stage 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: floppy slap-happy tanning salon headpube 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: Chest-beating Circlehead 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: snowy stage 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: Pungent Rigor 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: Sinister twinkling uncleanness locale 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: Chest-beating Circlehead 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: Rusted spectacular persian 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: Vigorous corn cake 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: floppy slap-happy tanning salon headpube 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: Vigorous corn cake 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: floppy slap-happy tanning salon headpube 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: white electric property 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: white electric property 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: flatulent insanely creepy brethren sanctuary 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: Vigorous corn cake 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: floppy slap-happy tanning salon headpube 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: flatulent insanely creepy brethren sanctuary 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: Vigorous corn cake 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: flatulent insanely creepy brethren sanctuary 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: floppy slap-happy tanning salon headpube 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: Vigorous corn cake 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: floppy slap-happy tanning salon headpube 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: Walnut dilemma "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: white electric property T7stud is a moron
TITCR |
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Date: April 21st, 2007 11:59 PM Author: Passionate therapy 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: floppy slap-happy tanning salon headpube 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: medicated brass friendly grandma weed whacker 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: floppy slap-happy tanning salon headpube 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: medicated brass friendly grandma weed whacker 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: floppy slap-happy tanning salon headpube 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: Shimmering self-centered church building jewess 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: Vermilion Whorehouse 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: blathering potus 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: white electric property 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: Indecent pink den jap 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: Walnut dilemma 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: Passionate therapy 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: odious filthpig goyim yes
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Date: April 22nd, 2007 1:38 AM Author: Mildly Autistic Jet-lagged Chad 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: blathering potus 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: Mildly Autistic Jet-lagged Chad 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: blathering potus 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: floppy slap-happy tanning salon headpube 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: blathering potus "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: floppy slap-happy tanning salon headpube 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: blathering potus 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: floppy slap-happy tanning salon headpube 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: medicated brass friendly grandma weed whacker 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: floppy slap-happy tanning salon headpube 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: white electric property 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: costumed internet-worthy theater stage 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: Light glittery factory reset button ratface 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: Puce vengeful boltzmann center 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: white electric property 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: duck-like institution 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: Apoplectic Cobalt Goal In Life 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: Passionate therapy 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: Apoplectic Cobalt Goal In Life 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: floppy slap-happy tanning salon headpube 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: Vermilion Whorehouse 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: avocado well-lubricated church 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: Pontificating locus 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: impertinent irate electric furnace 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: floppy slap-happy tanning salon headpube 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: frisky library generalized bond 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: blathering potus 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: Stirring station candlestick maker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=618518&forum_id=2#7980743) |