Two 12-Year-Old Boys Planned To Blow Up Their School

Two 12 year old boys have been arrested given their plan to blow up their Queens, NY school.

According to this:

ELMHURST, Queens — Two 12-year-old boys planned to use rocket launchers, grenades and land mines to blow up their Queens school, prompting their arrest, police said Friday.

The children attend Intermediate School 102, located in Elmhurst, according to police. The campus educates students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

A notebook detailing the boys’ plans to blow up the school was located in its gym, police said.

The notes allegedly claimed they intended to use rocket launchers, grenades and land mines.

Officials made no mention of the boys ability to access such weapons.

An unnamed person recognized the children’s handwriting, and police arrested them Thursday, police said.

Both are expected to appear in court Monday.

I’m sort of torn about this.

Part of me thinks this is just two kids being silly and day-dreaming about “never having to go to school again.”

I remember day-dreaming about a week-long snowday or my school burning down in a thunder storm…. I didn’t want anyone to get hurt… I just wanted a long vacation! I think a lot of kids think about stuff like that but don’t mean any harm by it.

Of course, in this day and age, it may be naive to not take any and every threat seriously. Things are bad… and even the musings of children must be investigated.

The reason I DON’T think they were serious?

1- The weapons they were “planning” on using were entirely unrealistic. Sounds like two kids who were being totally silly. Where would two twelve-year-olds get land mines?

2- They left the notebook out in the open, which means they probably weren’t taking anything seriously enough to be vigilant of getting found out.

Maybe I’m an idiot for hoping for the best…. I just hate that we live in a world where two twelve year olds’ “school’s out forever!!!!” daydreams may be a plausible threat.

Rocket launchers? Grenades? Mines? What, did they think they were playing Call of Duty?

— IAmSilky🇺🇸🇭🇺 (@IAmVerySilky) November 17, 2017

Is this the ISIS generation? Good grief

— Dangerswithoutintent (@BohemianCovfefe) November 17, 2017