Police Patrol West Bloomfield High School Following Online Threats
WEST BLOOMFIELD (WWJ) - A police presence is expected at West Bloomfield High School Wednesday after the school was apparently targeted in bomb threats.
Police say the threats were made online around 11 p.m. Tuesday from an anonymous Twitter account and were directed toward the athletic department's official Twitter account.
"This is what going to happen, the bomb that my uncle and I constructed will go off if you continue this," one of the threats read.
"I go to school wanting to do massive harm to you all," read another threat. "All you do is make me worse, this bomb you will not find and I will put that on Satan."
Detectives don't think the threats are credible, but as a precaution more officers will be at the school, which is located on Orchard Lake Road just north of Walnut Lake Road.
Shoshanna Rubenstein, who was dropping off her children Wednesday morning, said she's not worried because the police seem to have the situation under control.
"The police would have done a sweep at this point and if there was anything legitimate they would have contacted the parents, and I didn't hear from anybody," she said.
Students arriving for classes had mixed feelings on the issue.
"When I got to my bus stop, this girl was showing me pictures of it on Twitter and I was like 'Wow, that's pretty crazy,'" said one boy.
"I don't know, the tweets seemed kind of, like, not official. The person seemed like they were kind of joking about it, but nobody is coming to school now," one girl said.
"I mean, there's police in there, it made me feel a little safer. But still, like, the threat, I don't feel like they're really looking into it too much," another boy said.
A team of investigators is now trying to find out who could be responsible for making the threats.
