Timely Warning Notification of a Criminal Incident November 5, 2007
Anyone else find the name of the warning somewhat newspeak, due to the fact that, well, there's really nothing at all of significance in the so-called "timely warning notification"? (And what, exactly, is a warning notification?) Call the moral police, because someone has abused their word processor!
The threat was in the form of a graffiti message written on a wall in the Allen Library. The message indicated that the person(s) intended to commit an act of violence with the use of a weapon. The time period stated in the graffiti was vague, but reference was made to the month of November.
Surely I wasn't the only one who thought, "Gee, I bet some dumb Humanities professor stumbled upon the Guy Folkes poem?
“Remember, remember the fifth of November,
The gunpowder, treason and plot,
I know of no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.”
I guess I can see how that might be construed of as a "threat" - by the ignorant. Coincidentially, it kinda went along with the whole "Ron Paul groups are using Guy Fawkes sound bites to fundraise and are having (or did have, as it sits currently) a massive fundraising drive on the 5th". It would not surprise me if it showed up on the morning of the 5th and the shmucks didn't get around to sending out the notice until later in the day.