Saturday, March 2, 2013

Started making trouble in my neighborhood

A Pennsylvania teen was arrested because an out-of-touch school receptionist misheard his phone answering machine message.

The teen's voicemail greeting triggered a lockdown at his Pennsylvania school after a receptionist misheard his rendition of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" theme song. While trying to confirm an appointment with 19-year-old Travis Clawson, the receptionist thought the message said "shooting people outside of the school." The line is actually "shooting some b-ball," a reference to basketball. 
 The receptionist called 911 and Economy police arrested Clawson a short time later at Ambridge Area High School, but released him once he explained the message. 
Acting police Chief James Mann says police acted "appropriately" out of concern for students' welfare.

I would love to hear that 911 call. What's that you say, he is announcing an ongoing shooting through an answering machine message in rhyming couplets?

Apparently, police had time to travel to the school to arrest him but no one in the department could be bothered to call his phone and hear the message while they carried out a lockdown.

This is the problems with treating anything that could be twisted into some kind of a threat as a serious matter worthy of a costly response. Panicing over false positives is the safety equivalent of shooting first and asking questions later. Too many authorities are so concerned that they will experience a major tragedy that they show no shame or remorse for moronic overreactions.


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