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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 444518" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Hahahaha. Well someone forgot to give our city the message. We were still doing it until I went to Jr High.......oh about '76. By then it felt weird to NOT do it. Except to replace them we had bomb scares every other day. Only half of them weren't 'scares" at all but the real deal, we just didn't know until much later how real about half of them were. I'm almost 50 and STILL don't have a clue what the whole bomb scare/bomb thing was about. I just remember we learned fast to get our fannies into gear and clear out of that huge old school in record speed........and how to endure standing in 15 degrees in snow up to your knees with no coats or anything for hours until they either gave the all clear or found the bomb. We didn't take the first several seriously. Of course the school had no choice.....but even teachers ect thought it was students trying to get out of class. Until the first bomb was found. One went off.......They told us it was a coincidental lab experiment explosion.......but I found out a few years later from an old teacher it was indeed a bomb they didn't find in time. Had their been students in the classroom it would have been a high death count. </p><p></p><p>I look at schools today and think........ok. We did duck and cover drills constantly. We had bomb scares and bombs. And no metal detectors were needed to police the schools. And we survived and grew up. </p><p></p><p>Still would like to know what caused all that though. We had some in HS too but not near as many........until after I graduated. Idiots decided to cut costs and condense the city High schools. It put mine and our biggest rival (I mean football games could cause riots ect) together. Now how utterly stupid could you get? There were mob riots that year, bomb threats, bombs, fires, stabbings, a shooting and heaven knows what else. Took THREE years to get it under control. (in other words 3 yrs for those who remembered the old rivalry to graduate leaving only those who had only attended the combined school behind)</p><p></p><p>The thing is..........when you do something even like that repeatedly over a long period of time it just becomes routine and you stop consciously thinking about it anymore. The actual fear factor drops as you adjust to it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 444518, member: 84"] Hahahaha. Well someone forgot to give our city the message. We were still doing it until I went to Jr High.......oh about '76. By then it felt weird to NOT do it. Except to replace them we had bomb scares every other day. Only half of them weren't 'scares" at all but the real deal, we just didn't know until much later how real about half of them were. I'm almost 50 and STILL don't have a clue what the whole bomb scare/bomb thing was about. I just remember we learned fast to get our fannies into gear and clear out of that huge old school in record speed........and how to endure standing in 15 degrees in snow up to your knees with no coats or anything for hours until they either gave the all clear or found the bomb. We didn't take the first several seriously. Of course the school had no choice.....but even teachers ect thought it was students trying to get out of class. Until the first bomb was found. One went off.......They told us it was a coincidental lab experiment explosion.......but I found out a few years later from an old teacher it was indeed a bomb they didn't find in time. Had their been students in the classroom it would have been a high death count. I look at schools today and think........ok. We did duck and cover drills constantly. We had bomb scares and bombs. And no metal detectors were needed to police the schools. And we survived and grew up. Still would like to know what caused all that though. We had some in HS too but not near as many........until after I graduated. Idiots decided to cut costs and condense the city High schools. It put mine and our biggest rival (I mean football games could cause riots ect) together. Now how utterly stupid could you get? There were mob riots that year, bomb threats, bombs, fires, stabbings, a shooting and heaven knows what else. Took THREE years to get it under control. (in other words 3 yrs for those who remembered the old rivalry to graduate leaving only those who had only attended the combined school behind) The thing is..........when you do something even like that repeatedly over a long period of time it just becomes routine and you stop consciously thinking about it anymore. The actual fear factor drops as you adjust to it. [/QUOTE]
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