Another bomb threat disrupts school
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November 5, 2012 |
By Mike Weland
There was an old tomcat once who got his biggest
thrill by strutting back and forth outside a
wooden fence that held back a mean and ugly dog.
This dog wore a thick leather collar, to which
was attached a thick and heavy chain. Every time
the cat walked by, the dog caterwauled, barked
and bayed, lunging for the cat, his nemesis.
The cat thought it so funny, he'd sit down,
behind the fence, and lick his paws, snarling a
time or two at the dog just to keep him
interested.
For the fourth time in three years, some cat at
Bonners Ferry high school thought it would be
funny to tease the dog; write a stupid little
bomb threat on a bathroom wall and watch the dog
bark, snap and growl, held back by a heavy
chain.
This time, written on the wall of a stall in a
boy's bathroom and found today just after noon.
That dog was ferocious, but helpless, tied as he
was.
Some of you may have read the classic story. The
closer the mean old dog came, the more excited
the cat got.
What the cat never noticed though, was that the
dog, heavy chain and heavy collar
notwithstanding, was tied to a tire, and every
time he lunged, the tired was pulled forward a
fraction of an inch.
And there came the day when the cat, still
thinking it all in fun, sat behind the fence and
hissed, and was too complacent to run when the
wood splintered around him and the dog, still
chained, crashed through and grabbed him by the
neck, and commenced shaking him terribly.
"Wait!" the cat screamed. "I was only playing!"
The kid or kids at Bonners Ferry High School
making the bomb threats that disrupt class might
consider it funny right now, but the dog is
closing in.
"I was only playing" is really going to impress
your classmates when they find that
you've been disrupting the work they've been doing to
gain the education they are offered and entitled.
It'll impress the big dogs you share a cell with
in prison even less.
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