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"On Tuesday morning, we received an anonymous [that's me] call suggesting that one of our students may be planning to do damage to the school. We immediately passed that message to the police."

http://frog.attleboroughhigh.norfolk.sch .uk/index.phtml?d=224865

No front page credit for for poor ol' Joe, though. :(

At 3/23/09 06:03 AM, deckheadtottie wrote: "On Tuesday morning, we received an anonymous [that's me] call suggesting that one of our students may be planning to do damage to the school. We immediately passed that message to the police."

http://frog.attleboroughhigh.norfolk.sch .uk/index.phtml?d=224865

No front page credit for for poor ol' Joe, though. :(

Don't worry Joe, I will always love you, you're the Booster Gold of Newgrounds which makes you infinity awesome.

Also, I loved how the little twat posted a fucking KMFDM video in response to one of your posts. What is with that band and stupid kids trying to attack schools? It really showed that he was a fairy.

At 3/23/09 02:22 AM, TomFulp wrote:

At 3/23/09 02:21 AM, Evark wrote: NG still exists?

And it will long after Digg. :)

Woah, let's not get cocky now. Digg is pretty important.

As long as a school attack is prevented, everything works out fine.

At 3/23/09 02:19 AM, TomFulp wrote:

The latest is this NY Times article, which landed on the front page of the Digg Bubble and scored plenty of snarky comments from Diggers who didn't know NG still exists.

NG will long live, tweeter will be nuked, and digg will be ripped apart... by me :)

Joking or not i think Sirtom should of had the common sense to just not say (nor show the pictures he did) of what he may or may not of had planned. This day and age is a scary time and people saying things like that deserve to be taken down. I'm sure there will be people that disagree with what i'm saying. I'm sure there will be people that agree. None the less whats done is done. As Mr Fulp said hopefully he finds the help he needs or he learned a HUGE lesson.

Much luv NG.

I feel sad that he felt he had to go that far. I am glad no one got hurt though. I think he needs some help before it is too late.

Thank God this moron was caught. We don't need any more school killings.

At 3/23/09 02:23 AM, GayDorf wrote: pretty sure sirtom was joking.

He had like a knife and gas at school though didn't he?

I do hope that nothing similiar like this will never happen again, that Newgrounds wouldn't get any possible bad popularity, because of media twisting stories around. At least this attack was actually reported, because if it wasn't, that would have meant some really bad stuff to Newgrounds.

Just thinking of average media guys reading the article Sirtom started...

But about that digg Tom posted...

terracottapai said:

Everyone knows Newgrounds is soooo 2004.

That guy seriously doesn't know what he is talking about. Seriously.
Newgrounds > YouTube or any other similiar site that started coming up around 2004

creative

At 3/23/09 04:17 AM, Piss wrote: That threat was just a diversion. The real thing is set to happen very soon.

Ah, fuck.

At 3/23/09 07:08 AM, Shadowii2 wrote: I do hope that nothing similiar like this will never happen again

I second that. I've been hearing concerns about the 10th anniversary of the Columbine shooting in April. It's actually pretty scary thinking about it. Someone could just copy-cat it out of the blue, you never know.

Let's live our lives please.

At 3/23/09 02:23 AM, GayDorf wrote: pretty sure sirtom was joking.

From the looks of the article, I think he wasn't

At 3/23/09 02:19 AM, TomFulp wrote: and scored plenty of snarky comments from Diggers who didn't know NG still exists.

You need a PR/advertising guy.

At 3/23/09 06:07 AM, MattTheParanoidKat wrote: Also, I loved how the little twat posted a fucking KMFDM video in response to one of your posts. What is with that band and stupid kids trying to attack schools? It really showed that he was a fairy.

Yet another trend started by Columbine.

NO PITY FOR THE MAJORITY

At first when you said Norfolk, I thought that you ment Virginia. But no, it's Montreal.

I've already said it so many times before, but joking or not Sirtom got what he deserved for doing what he did. If it was a joke he took it way too far, if it wasn't then he certainly fails at burning down a school, damn I could do a better job at it with two sticks and some flint. Most likely he's just all messed in the head and wanted some attention, he should get the help he needs.

Now onto the more pressing issue of the Digg users having a dig (DO HO HO) at Newgrounds. Cheek of them, this is the greatest Animation, Games and Audio site on the internet, they're just a bulletin board of mostly crap links. I guess certain people stopped coming here when it evolved onto more advanced animation and games beyond 'Osama in a blender', but I see that as a good thing.

At 3/23/09 02:25 AM, ZekeySpaceyLizard wrote: fuck him.

Yesss let the angry flow through you

At 3/23/09 07:51 AM, Desa217 wrote: At first when you said Norfolk, I thought that you ment Virginia. But no, it's Montreal.

Actually it's the UK, Norfolk is where Sirtom was, Montreal is where Rig phoned the Popo from.

At 3/23/09 02:22 AM, TomFulp wrote:

At 3/23/09 02:21 AM, Evark wrote: NG still exists?

And it will long after Digg. :)

damn straight

That games reeks of epic.
But such a serious event proves that the internet makes people stupid, like who broadcasts a crime and not expect to be caught?
Angry 16 year of kids of course!

You gotta love how hardly any of the news articles referring to NG know what kind of site it actually is.

Oh my God, I amrelly sorry for that.
Hope he is fine.

Maybe Rig will finally be upgraded to forum mod after all this.

K probably not.

That's a pretty serious story. Could only happen to Newgrounds.

This is incredible, there is still good people in this world.
I mean, who would think that somebody would consider those threats for real and risk to get into trouble for doing what he did... Anyway, I am kust happy that incident was prevented.

At 3/23/09 09:19 AM, TomFulp wrote:

No front page credit for for poor ol' Joe, though. :(

Edited for posterity.

I put the message just above it "deckheadtottie saved the world! Woooooooooooo!" - Front page credit enough?

At 3/23/09 08:21 AM, WilliWowza wrote: Now onto the more pressing issue of the Digg users having a dig (DO HO HO) at Newgrounds.

Which is exactly why the media decided not to post the specific name, 'Newgrounds' on their articles (or they just didn't know). If they released names of people preventing it, the site name, details about the site, there would be much more of a media circus trying to bring us down. I'll show you an example relating to another form of media, music.

Here we see a murder that was supposively influenced by the band, Slayer, and directly quotes the parent of the murdered child as stating this is the case.

However, at this article by Ultimate-Guitar states a direct quote from the murders themselves as stating it was their own responsibilities, and bad actions of taking drugs, instead of the music.

If you do a quick Google search for, "Slayer killing" or any of the sort, you will find pages, and pages, articles and articles of similar news reports to the first case, instead of any instance of the quotes from the killers.

Had the media published NGs name into their news reports, this probably would've happened to Newgrounds as well - no particular motive, nothing seemingly odd about his life, except he has a NG account (which in the Slayer case, was that they had Slayer posters and albums in their room). They do a little research on his account, yada, yada, yada, Newgrounds is plop in the center of the circus.

In the end, that's what I believe would've happened had the police released the details of Newgrounds (or the media found out, or the media published it, or whatever). I'm sorry for the longer post, but I feel that this weird fact of the media not showing NGs name shouldn't take priority over the case itself any longer.

DONT SCREW WITH NEWGROUNDS!
We will crush you all!