Bomb Threat at Elementary Schools Saginaw/Flint MI

SAGINAW, MI — County parents should expect to see Saginaw County sheriff's vehicles at “quite a few” area schools Friday, the sheriff says.

In response to bomb threats at schools in Birch Run, Midland County, and Genesee County that followed after last week's shooting spree at a Connecticut elementary school, Saginaw County Sheriff William L. Federspiel said today that he is proactively “putting out extra patrols tomorrow” to “make sure everybody is safe.”

I just moved to this area, but that is a lot of distance between these counties.

Outlaw school bombs, right now!

agreed...

it was odd to find out here of course, that the largest attack or massacre of school children happened here in a small town in Michigan in the late 1927 or so.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]



The Bath School disaster is the name given to three bombings in Bath Township, Michigan, on May 18, 1927, which killed 38 elementary school children, two teachers, and four other adults; at least 58 people were injured. The perpetrator first killed his wife, and committed suicide with his last explosion. Most of the victims were children in the second to sixth grades (7–14 years of age[1]) attending the Bath Consolidated School. Their deaths constitute the deadliest mass murder in a school in United States history.[2]
The bomber was the school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe, age 55, who was angry after being defeated in the spring 1926 election for township clerk. He was thought to have planned his "murderous revenge" after that public defeat; he had a reputation for difficulty on the school board and in personal dealings. For much of the next year, a neighbor noticed Kehoe had stopped working on his farm and thought he might be planning suicide. During that period, Kehoe carried out steps in his plan to destroy the school and his farm by purchasing and hiding explosives.

Unbelievable. 44 people killed, and 58 injured.

In 1927 w/ homemade explosives...

You could still buy dynamite at the hardware store over the counter at that time.

Interesting. Yes, that reminds me in the late sixties the boys in our neighborhood had "cherry bombs" which they insisted were a quarter stick of dynamite...I bet they were.