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Don't Panic!No Bomb at Canyon High School!

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Don't Panic!No Bomb at Canyon High School!

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1st WordCanyon High hosted a bomb scareand we got some cool photos.

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Beore we jump into the last weeks bombscare at Canyon High School, Ivegot a correction to make. In last

issues First Word column Istated the ollowing:Issue Five: The Chamber

o Commerce was back,looking or a two-year PR dealwith the City at a 4-B cost o$350,000 per. It should be notedthat in 2010, according to the Citysdata, they did the very same job or $234,569.In 2011 they got a $55,000 raise, ollowedby a $16,800 raise in 2012. Now they wantanother $43,000 raise. WTF.

The numbers were indeed correct, andthe WTF stands, however the deal wasntor PR services it was or the Chamber tomanage 4-B itsel. The Chambers PR deal isworth over a million Hotel/Motel Tax dollarsannually. $1,527,110.41 or 2012, to beexact. Sorry. My bad.

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we post our columns in a mobile riendlyormat, we have digitized the print versiono the paper itsel, so you can see it on yourscreen as i you were holding it in your veryhands! Its so awesome. (The link or thateature is the Volume/Issue number at the topo the page.) Go to txcitizen.com and checkit out now, unk soul brotha.

And now the news: As or the Friday,November 30 high school bomb scare, i t went

down something like this: At about 8:55am,Canyon High School received a phone callthat came with a blow-up threat. The schoolwent into lockdown, and New BraunelsPolice, Comal County Sheris Deputies,the Texas Rangers, the Highway Patrol andstaers rom the TX Citizen were on scenealmost immediately. We covered the story asit progressed via the TX Citizens Facebookpage, (acebook.com/txcitizen), and spent

a good deal o time quashing rumors beorethey ran wild across the internet.

(Note: About 20 minutes ater the bombthreat was called in, a barely passable cross-dresser held up the Security Service FederalCredit Union branch on Hwy 46. Suspicions

that the call was made simply to divert lawenorcement to another part o town

are being investigated.)

We were in regular contactwith the Comal IndependentSchool District oces duringthe schools lockdown,veriying acts, (but mostly

debunking hearsay), as theinternet raged. Because unlike

the school-bomb-threat-lockdowns Iexperienced as a kid, todays high schoolstudents have the ability to send textmessages to the outside world. And, as weall know, theres nothing quite as reliableas the emotionally charged communicationbetween a parent and child when they boththink that perhaps the kid is in grave danger.I dont know a parent that wouldnt start toslip a little in that kind o situation, but wewere ready to deal with that.

Remember, there had been a bombthreat. What there hadnt been were arrests,two separate gunmen roaming the school, or

a hit list with the names o school athleteson it. Yet this is what was coming over theinternet, and spreading rom parent toparent, inciting terror in just about everybody.So we did what were best at. We deusedthe situation by ridiculing the person makingthe lions share o the posts.

Parent: My son told me the copsinormed students: 2 kids with guns arrested,

no bomb was ound, but a hit list with starootball players names was ound

TX Citizen: No arrests. No kids withguns. No hit list. Football players sae withtheir record this season, no one qualifedor star status. Please do not post terriying,unounded speculation, as that is our job andwe take pride in it.

Parent: My son was there. Thatswhat the police man told his group (ace toace). I dont consider our police orce anunounded source.

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Continued rom previous page.TX Citizen: THIS JUST IN: Per the Comal

ounty Sheris Ofce - NO gunman, NOrrests, NO hit list, NO gun ound during

bomb scare at Canyon High School. Duringcrisis or emotional rush, imaginations o

ictims/bystanders/law enorcement cannd do run wild - oten starting both warsnd religions in the process. Remember,

news is a serious business, and is best let inhe hands o proessionals.

Parent: My son, I was there locked upin a pitch black wrestling room or 3 hours.

hile they were looking or the bomb theyold us, (names withheld), that they oundwo kids with weapons. The police brokehe doors in, (they were blocked by severalym mats), to our room and searched somekids. Ater that they told us that the twopeople had been arrested. The bomb threat

as the diversion or the robbery but thereere two kids with handguns and a hit list,

hat they ound and arrested. Why wouldhe police lie to us about this? sotheidiots you mention running around lyingis not my son (-) (teachers name withheld)

as told the same thing (being present inhe same group that the police told). Greathat news is let up to the proessionals (and Irarely get involved), but what happens whenhe story isnt ully covered. Go interview(teachers name withheld). On anotheropic, you didnt mention the arrest at NewBraunels High School on the same day.http://www.ksat.com/news/Arrest-made-in-hreat-against-New-Braunels-High-School/-478452/16766720/-/111xqhy/-/index.

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TX Citizen: We did cover (that story)in ull, when it happened. In Septemberhis is December The arrest reerenced

in the KSAT story was made at the Comal

County Courthouse, not NBHS. This would beclear to anyone that took the time to actuallyread the story, which you did not. Please,please, PLEASE, stop this madness. Despitethe un were having at your expense, yourclaims are terriying to both kids and adults.

Again, please, stand down. Wellhandle it.

Sure that stands on its own, but let meadd this you should never believe the rstreports you hear rom a potential crime scene,or really anyplace where emotions can runhigh. What you hear rom any news source,(internet, TV, radio, print), while a story isrst developing is very oten and I dare saymost o the time - not true. Facts are fyingeverywhere and speculation is rampant, whichis why reporters on scene will use the non-committal What were hearing is and thenchange that story completely 30 minutes later.

Its not about lying or temporary insanity.Its about human nature and the poor qualityo second, third, and ourth hand inormation.People want answers, and when the answersarent readily available, they allow their ownminds to write the story, lling in the gapsbetween ragments o whatever acts they canget with whatever their imagination allows. Weall do it. Theres no escape rom it. Thats why,when things go crazy, reporters account orthe oibles o human nature as part o the act-checking process. I mean, ater all, there waseither an arrest made at New Braunels HighSchool on the same day as the bomb scare,or not at all. You can check with KSAT on that.

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