Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Arrest made in bomb threat against con hotel Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:12:06 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:12:06 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="20271"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 3323 Lines: 53 In article , Gary McGath wrote: >On 4/12/24 9:25 AM, James Nicoll wrote: >> In article , Gary McGath >> wrote: > >>> Then maybe someone who was banned spread the litter-box stories to >>> gullible audiences in retaliation? >>> >>> The litter boxes for my cats have always been gender-free. >> >> As I recall, it turned out some classrooms in the Jefferson County >> Public School District in Colorado do or did have litter boxes but >> not for the reason the alt-right claimed. It was so that during >> routine school mass shootings, kids waiting their turn to be murdered >> would have somewhere to relieve themselves without spoiling the game >> by making a run for the bathroom. > >You've just illustrated another way such stories can come up: by the >game of telephone, where each retelling gets a few more points wrong. > >Here's the actual story: > >https://www.9news.com/article/news/education/jeffco-schools-have-emergency-buckets-where-people-can-pee-during-lockdowns/73-481198424 > >There weren't any "litter boxes" in the normal sense. The school set up >what they call "emergency go buckets," effectively an improvised revival >of the old chamber pot, with cat litter at the bottom. > >The school district never claimed school mass shootings were routine. >What may have become routine in some places is lockdowns on the >slightest excuse. > >Then there's this detail: "Food and candy are also included in the >Emergency Go Buckets to help those who may need sugar during the wait." >*In* them? Yuck, even if the buckets haven't been used yet. > >If a shooting was in progress, I wouldn't want to come out of hiding to >reach the bucket. If my pants needed changing afterwards, I doubt anyone >would blame me. It now occurs to me the next time I have to shelter in place, I am going to do it in the 2nd floor washroom I know has a door wedge nearby. I am also going to try very very hard not repeat the mistake I made last time, which is to shelter in place in the same room as the armed person from whom I was sheltering in place from, in such a way as to block all of his possible egresses. -- My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/ My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/ My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/ My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll