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Student, 17, gets 8 years in prison for phone threat
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by nk | June 8, 2008 at 08:56 am
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A 17-year-old who phoned his rival high school on a school bus and threatened to open fire on students has been sentenced to eight years in state prison.
If we put a 17 yrs old kid into prison for a prank then the terrorists already won: their primary object is to sow terror into everyone's heart and that obviously succeeded.
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at 09:07 on June 8th, 2008
nk, I like this story. It's good stuff and I agree that the judge was far more trigger happy with the 8 year sentence than the 17 year old was - he obviously had no intentions of carrying through the threat.
However, I think that the judge helped prevent these threats from happening in the future by making the 17 year old a poster boy for his crime. And you are right, terrorism breeds terror and this is one of its obvious consequences..