It happened less than 30 minutes before the scheduled testing of the new campus alert system. Some of us (the cynical, like myself) thought it actually WAS the test, and that thing about "this is not a test" was a fake, designed to make sure we really left the building.
I had the presence of mind to grab important things (like my car keys and my laptop, as it turned out that classes in my building were cancelled and the building locked down) while my colleagues urged me to hurry up, and I wasn't scared until we were gathered en masse in the campus center, and then the thought occurred that a person REALLY wishing to do harm (assuming some intelligence and pre-planning skills; yeah, it's a lot to assume) would pretend to target one building, and then show up in the evacuation center.
Now I am sort of freaked out. But I am not home appreciably earlier than usual, and I have two sets of lecture notes to write, so onward I go.
Posted by otto0114 at February 27, 2008 05:09 PMIt's a shame that this is like a new sport.
And I'm not sure if I'm talking about the threats... or the actual killing sprees.
Kinda makes you wonder why people think guns are a good thing to have.