Fred588 wrote:I remember when I was an undergraduate, in the very early 70s, our classes were being interrupted by bomb scares every few hours. Eventually, the university simply posted notices on buildings that a threat had been made and no one would be penalized if they did not attend class that day. Most everyone went to class, and the threats stopped almost immediately.
Didn't work here. We had this problem in 1996-1997. All the telephone calls were coming from the vicinity of the campus (and even from the public phones inside academic buildings), but nobody was caught. One day they simply distributed compact cassettes with the recorded calls and asked everybody to listen and try to recognize the voice. Of course, nobody was recognized (or at least nobody was reported), but apparently the idea that they can be recognized in such way came to their minds only after that. Actually, the false alarms ceased instantly.
Drown in quicksand? I never like grim endings, but in such case I probably would make an exclusionDuncan Edwards wrote:They are very few in number, about 50, so there is at least some chance they will all die in the same bus crash.
