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Make three boxes. Label them BOMB 1, BOMB 2, and BOMB 4. Put them in various places around the school. Grab some popcorn and a comfy chair.

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That'll get you arrested.

Instead, label them BOX 1, BOX 2 and BOX 4 and put "geo-location circuity" (it doesn't have to work, just make it look like it could) in it and place those at various points in the school, preferably with visible wires.

Then you can claim that you were trying to build your own local mini-gps to monitor your movements throughout the day.

Same popcorn value, less time in prison.

Wow, what an evil plot.

You shouldn't be caught sitting in your comfy chair eating popcorn though...

This is an actual bomb threat. Fun, but probably a felony.

Well, yes. I'm not saying anyone should actually do this. But it's fun to imagine.

Only in the USA would this pass as an actual bomb threat. Seriously...

Depends, my country had a long history of phone bomb threats, by students to delay or postpone exams. They were taken seriously - the classes were dismissed and the bomb squads checked everything.

Fun fact, making this suggestion is probably illegal in Canada.

You liar, that fact is not fun!

And then die slow death from NSA interrogation, great plan.

And then you will complain when they bring charges against you.

For something like this, "I never imagined the authorities could possibly be this stupid" ought to be an affirmative defense.

They have certain obligations by law and you would certainly pay a fine for wasting their time. A judge would not have much sympathy for a clown.

I'm well aware of what would actually happen. I'm not talking about that.

What do the cops ever do with their time that isn't a waste? They only rarely and incidentally protect anyone from any actual threat. Mostly they hassle, ticket, menace, and otherwise inconvenience the public. If they all went on strike next week, violence and mayhem would decrease.

Right, there are no criminals, that is all just made up by the police-industial-complex.

2/3 of them are. If you doubt it, look at any international comparison of incarceration rates.

80% of crime goes unsolved, but if you have never lived in a bad neighborhood you might misunderstand.

You think "bad" neighborhoods are arguments in the police's favor? I guess you've never had your door knocked down in the middle of the night...

You claimed most criminals were setup by the cops, it seems very unlikely you have had any interaction with either side.

The "industrial-complex" you invoke includes all institutions that create, support, and perpetuate it. Maybe the cops don't write the laws, maybe they don't bargain the pleas, at any rate they don't join LEAP until retirement. The vast surplus of "criminals" in USA, that has existed nowhere else and at no other time in all of human experience, has been manufactured by the industrial-complex, for its own purposes.

Like other rational people who live or have lived in USA, I have minimized my interaction with both "sides" to the extent that I've been able. (Although frankly I elicited more sympathy for a stolen bike from an admitted bike thief than I did from any cop.) If you drop another "you just don't know how it is to be a cop" whinge on us, I'll be forced to assume that you are a cop or in the immediate family of one.

Tis quite sad that all family of law enforcement is by default impunged. But prejudice knows no bounds.

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