"If we gon win and if we didn't imma shoot up ed white."
When an Ed White school resource officer saw this threatening post on the popular MySpace.com, he called in a police investigator to report it. The police said that the student who posted it said his name was Bruce and that he attended Raines High School. The sheriff's office soon learned that that was a lie. The student actually attends Ed White, and plays on the football team. The student wrote, "I'm #48 u better be on the bench wen IM on the field..." and "45 … Pearl World … Dodge Road", which investigators think are the names of gangs.
When they saw these postings, the investigator contacted MySpace to find out where it came from. They found the student and arrested him Wednesday night after he admitted to making the threats. He says that they were all a joke with his friends, and surely not serious. Police are still wondering why the student said he went to Raines and why he faked his name.
When the police talked to the coach of Ed White, he said he didn't think that his team was in any kind of danger. The police still say that it's their job to make sure a little joke doesn't go too far. "Playing or not, we take it serious. So, be careful what you write because it may come back to haunt you," says JSO's spokesman Ken Jefferson. The young boy was sent back home on Thursday after being charged with making written threats to kill or do bodily harm. The teen tells Channel 4 news that the comments were just a joke.
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Great article- work on making your articles more concise and to the point. rember to format you quotations.
"IF WE GONE WHEN AND IF WE DIDNT" DOESNT MAKE SENSE BESIDES THAT GOOD ARTICLE JUST WORK ON THE GRAMMAR
Very intriguing article. It would have been great to try and interview a higher authority such as a police officer.
cool story
Try seeing if you can find someone who has seen or heard of this myspace comment.
RELATE IT TO PARKER! This could EASILY be related, because so many of us use Myspace. .. Just.. Good work, I guess. Just... if you relate it to Parker, students will be more likely to enjoy reading it.
.......... I put the wrong comments on the wrong articles.... ><
You could try to make this article more towards TP. Other than that fact it is a great article and teaches students that saying threats like that can lead to a bad ending.
interesting, and hits pretty close to home for students so i dont really know what else to say
I like the idea of your article and I like how you used a quote at the beginning to make it a little more interesting but I think you can tie it back to Terry Parker because it almost sounds like an article for Ed White's newspaper.
I remember hearing about this but never got the full details. Thanks for filling in the correct info for me. I believe this will clear up a lot of rumors about this situation, and also be an eye opener for people to not joke around like this.
It's an interesting article and all, but it needs to be more relevant to Parker, especially since so many Parker students use myspace. You should also include an interview with some sort of authority, like a cop.
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG thasts messed up. well that is very good and informative and thank i liked it.
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