Seriously? Who jokes about stuff like that?!
I know when I was a kid, we had occasional bomb threats at our school. Don't know if they ever figured out who was responsible. Hubby's school had the same problem, always on Tuesdays. Eventually, the fire department refused to respond, and they would just have teachers/administrators do a search while classes carried on as usual (obviously, a small town school where it was reasonably safe to assume that the threat was not credible). Without the "fuss," it stopped being fun for the caller, and the threats petered out.
At about the same time, a high school in a nearby city had a problem with students pulling the fire alarms. They dusted the levers on the alarms with a powder that reacts with the moisture on skin to form an indelible dye, and literally caught the culprits red-handed. Problem solved.
These were all kids who were creating mayhem for "fun." Young, stupid, not thinking about the possible consequences for themselves or anyone else.
Any time something gets attention, some people get inspired to commit copycat offenses. Thankfully, most are just attention-seekers that are doing it as a joke, or just a way to blow off steam, but there are always some that are deadly serious and dangerous, and authorities have to figure out which ones are a genuine threat. There have been at least a half-dozen middle- and high-school students here in Wilmington that have been arrested for making (not credible) threats since the incident in Florida. We have a student court system here, where first offenders can face a jury of their peers who decide what the consequence should be (overseen by persons with real authority, of course). We'll see how that works.
