Major police incident at UBC

[MelBridgeman]

Originally Posted by Flashpoint

Wait, let me guess.

It'll turn out it is just an idle and poorly worded email threat that caused local law enforcement to massively overreact costing thousands of dollars, and wasting everyone's time because some kid didn't want to write a mid term exam.

welll the last time a goverment/the law didnt take threats seriously, a few thousand people lost their lives...so post that event, no suprise at any "massive" overreaction.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Flashpoint

Wait, let me guess.

It'll turn out it is just an idle and poorly worded email threat that caused local law enforcement to massively overreact costing thousands of dollars, and wasting everyone's time because some kid didn't want to write a mid term exam.

A guy in my girlfriend's classes was expelled for diong just that a couple of years ago. I don't know if exams would have been the main motivation here, but that is probably what happened.

[foofighter15]

Originally Posted by tkflames

Hmm...does it bother anyone that I was about to leave for class at UBC and only found out about this because I was checking for flames trades/gdt before class?

PS: Helicopter has been circling around the are for the last hour or so...will keep updated.

what were you doing in the OT forum then

[Flashpoint]

Originally Posted by MelBridgeman

welll the last time a goverment/the law didnt take threats seriously, a few thousand people lost their lives...so post that event, no suprise at any "massive" overreaction.

Really? The specter of 9/11 still looms large over the UBC campus? Or should we be more concerned with law enforcement getting into a tizzy over a bunch of lightbright boards promoting Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Yeah, you're right. Odds are it saves countless lives taking our shoes off in airports and not being allowed toothpaste on an airplane.

Leave the culture of fear to the Americans. It lets them justify their military spending.

[Clever_Iggy]

Apparently "normal activities may resume at this time." Choppers are still doing circles and there's a crowd outside of the Bio Sci Building - reporters, students, etc...

Very little police presence. Looks like a hoax.

[MelBridgeman]

Originally Posted by Flashpoint

Really? The specter of 9/11 still looms large over the UBC campus? Or should we be more concerned with law enforcement getting into a tizzy over a bunch of lightbright boards promoting Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Yeah, you're right. Odds are it saves countless lives taking our shoes off in airports and not being allowed toothpaste on an airplane.

Leave the culture of fear to the Americans. It lets them justify their military spending.

sure....

just in case you were out of the loop as to why things like this are taken more seriously....never said anything about right or wrong.

and i am sure you would be the first to be all over law enforcement if this was legit and they didnt take this seriously.

[blankall]

I think the incidents in montreal at Polytechnique have just as much to do w/ the police reaction as 9/11. Campuses are easy targets and student life is pretty stressful for a lot of people. Until all the facts are released i'm going to reserve judgment on the reaction of the police.

[Clever_Iggy]

Originally Posted by blankall

I think the incidents in montreal at Polytechnique have just as much to do w/ the police reaction as 9/11. Campuses are easy targets and student life is pretty stressful for a lot of people. Until all the facts are released i'm going to reserve judgment on the reaction of the police.

Or at Virginia Tech, University of Arizona, etc... it doesnt have to be an incident in Canada to effect police response/attitude towards threats.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Clever_Iggy

Or at Virginia Tech, University of Arizona, etc... it doesnt have to be an incident in Canada to effect police response/attitude towards threats.

I agree with you. I'm just saying that 9/11 and homeland security are not the main issue here.

[tkflames]

Originally Posted by foofighter15

what were you doing in the OT forum then

Don't Judge me! You don't know me! Its not like I have a problem or something!!! What are you saying?!?

[604flames]

We had another snow day

/sticking out tongue

[flylock shox]

Originally Posted by blankall

Don't know any of the details yet. But apparently there is an incident at the biological sciences buildigns. We noticed police helicopters flying over the campus. We've now been asked to remain inside the law building until things are resolved.

Crazy...

I hope it is just an over reaction to something minor. I'm hoping not a shooting of some kind or real bomb threat.

edit: wrong forum can mods please move. sorry

Now, is this because the Curtis building is practically a bunker, or because everyone at UBC was basically thrown into lockdown?

And ask Wexler for a poem or two. Nothing passes the time like a good reading from him.

Well, except Socrates on Trial...

[SarichFan]

Zombies on the Loose!

I for one welcome our slowly decaying infected human overlords...

[blankall]

Originally Posted by flylock shox

Now, is this because the Curtis building is practically a bunker, or because everyone at UBC was basically thrown into lockdown?

And ask Wexler for a poem or two. Nothing passes the time like a good reading from him.

Well, except Socrates on Trial...

Although Curtis may contain the cement content necessary for a bunker, it would not stand up to a stiff breeze let alone a bomb. I have nothing against Wexler, but I got a lifetime's worth of Greek philosophy from him in my class last year.

Anyway, we've all been allowed to leave, but apparently the Bio-sciences building is still under lock down and they are not letting people out...