Posted on 09/15/2006 9:22:19 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
GREEN BAY, WI (AP) -- Two 17-year-olds who apparently planned to go on a shooting spree and detonate explosive devices at a high school were fascinated with the mass killings at Columbine High School in Colorado, officials said Friday.
Two 17-year-olds were arrested Thursday at East High School, police said, after a resource officer at the school learned that the two had homemade bombs and weapons at their homes.
Capt. Lisa Sterr said Friday that the two frequently talked about and planned to attack the school and have police shoot them.
Brown County District Attorney John Zakowski said the two were expected in court Friday for a bond hearing.
"If someone hadn't come forward, we'd be talking about funerals instead of charges," he said.
One the teens were obsessed with pain and death, Sterr said. They had been depressed over the last couple of years and hated school, Sterr said.
She said both were had long been fascinated with the incident at Littleton, Colo., in April 1999, when two students at Columbine High School armed with guns, knives and bombs killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves.
She said police found mannequin heads that appeared to be used for target practice.
Police Chief Craig Van Schyndle had said officers who found the materials also found suicide notes by the two.
Right here in my backyard.
I'm surprised as h#ll that this hasn't happened in Madistan, yet!
Lemmee guess...
The parents were upstanding, attentive, married, and took the boys to church every Sunday morning. They talked to their kids and worked with them to develop self-esteem, respect, and love for their fellow human beings?
/ sarc
Yeah, I feel the same. Parents raising kids poorly is the problem. And lets face it, raising a bad kid is just as bad as leaving a loaded gun laying around.
Good thing they were stopped when they were. No telling how the Montreal shooting might have affected them or possibly set them off.
It's worse, IMO. A loaded gun won't go off by itself, no matter what the liberals say.
No different than some stupid kid in the 1800's being obsessed with Billy the Kid and attempting to replicate some of his crimes. Things haven't changed except the ability to blog about them.
Goths? The problem isn't parents raising bad kids, it's a rotten, decadent society. "Family Values" is a cop out from cowardly Republicans and "conservatives" who don't have the guts to confront cultural destruction and those engineering it. We had bad parents and guns in the past, we didn't have this. On one of the threads about that guy in Montreal there is a cache of his web page. Go and read it, and understand that the subculture it represents exists without serious criticism because it is an attack on traditional society and thus serves the purpose of the establishment.
Waiting for the parents and friends of the two young monsters to tell us how wonderful they were, how they loved animals, volunteered to help old people, delivered newspapers, played football, etc......
clinton generation alert.
True. I remember all those history lessons about children slaughtering their classmates in the one-room schoolhouses. / sarc You're really a mind.
We live over by West.
We've had outlaw culture for a long time now.
Anarchists and socialist revolutionaries were and are romanticized.
Gangsters were and are idolized. Mob fiction is bigger than ever.
Post WWII biker gangs got sensationalized press. They took glory in being the 1 percenters. The one percent that gave the other 99% a bad name.
In Hunter S. Thompson's book on "Hell's Angels" (1966?), he references a Columbine like plot by outsider students at a school who targeted preps/brains/jocks. He used it as an example of how outlaw culture was a bad thing for the mass media to sell.
The society is sick today. Too many mock the straight and narrow. Eddie Haskell would be considered a good role model anymore because at least he knew HOW to straighten up when someone in authority was watching him.
Man you totally nailed it.
>>>No different than some stupid kid in the 1800's being obsessed with Billy the Kid and attempting to replicate some of his crimes. Things haven't changed except the ability to blog about them.
True. I remember all those history lessons about children slaughtering their classmates in the one-room schoolhouses. / sarc You're really a mind.>>>
You really aren't that bright are you. If going with your stupid analogy, Billy the Kid never slaughtered anyone in school, therefore the 'follower' would either.
You must be some sort of genius that is having a really bad day.
exactly. that's precious. I couldn't have said it better myself.
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