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TRIFORCE89 June 15th, 2004 2:18 PM

No, We're Not Dead
 
Me and Lightning are not dead, incase you were wondering why both of us were not on yet. We had a health scare today.

Grade 12s decided it would be fun if they ran havoc on our school. They set crickets loose, one ran around wearing a mask carring a paint ball gun, and to top it off they contaminate our school with something.

We've both been waiting outside for a couple of hours waiting to get chekced if we have whatever it was. I did/do but it was a minor case. Though I'm really worried because the little card I had also said "Major" and "Deceased At" on it. I'm left in the dark, and I have no idea how my friends are, especially Lightning. I really hope she's fine, she is my greatest friend (although I've had so few in my lifetime) and it would kill me if something horrible happened to her.

I'm not kidding either, I'm confident that whatever it was is something that can be serious. My mom informs me that four people went to the hospital, plus I doubt the medical people would be wearing suits and masks if it was safe. It looked like that seen from E.T. Scary stuff.

I'm staying home tomorrow and going to the doctor's. I don't care that I need to pick up my books to study for an exam, my health is more important than my grades. We were outside all squished together, so we were bound to breath something in. What a great birthday this has turned out to be for me so far.

Castrainer June 15th, 2004 2:19 PM

I will not read that O_o
But it sounds awful...

Happy Birthday, Triforce ^___^

AngelWolfie June 15th, 2004 2:21 PM

Ugh, sounds horrible! Who would do such a thing? :( Feel better.

TRIFORCE89 June 15th, 2004 2:23 PM

I was going to drive Lightning home, but I got checked before her and I had to pick up my little brother. This was on the news too, I don't know to what scale but still on the news. *paces back and forth* *is worried* Lightning! Please be O.K.!

Legendary_Pokegirl June 15th, 2004 2:25 PM

Dont worry, Im sure Lightnings fine.....
That sounds horrible! I hope they find who did it! I hope everyones okay!

TRIFORCE89 June 15th, 2004 2:31 PM

I can see some of whatever it was on my hand. But its very faint. I've washed my face, neck and hands several hundred times already.

Kairi June 15th, 2004 2:31 PM

So sorry this happened on your birthday…I can only imagine how scared you are. First of all I hope you’re okay and don’t suffer any side effects, keep us updated on that certainly. Have you tried calling Erica’s house? When was the last time you saw her at school? I’m…obviously very worried too, but again it’s got to be harder on you, let us know as soon as you can, please…?

TRIFORCE89 June 15th, 2004 2:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Kairi
So sorry this happened on your birthday…I can only imagine how scared you are. First of all I hope you’re okay and don’t suffer any side effects, keep us updated on that certainly. Have you tried calling Erica’s house? When was the last time you saw her at school? I’m…obviously very worried too, but again it’s got to be harder on you, let us know as soon as you can, please…?

Since I was going to drive her home originally, I saw her when I returned her books. Her mom is driving her home, I would call her if I had her cell phone number though. I must remember to ask her for it. She could've left earlier, but we were seperated and then she left the line for some reason.

And I had to be decontaminated.

Imakuni? June 15th, 2004 2:37 PM

WHAT!? What did they contaminate the school with??

TRIFORCE89 June 15th, 2004 2:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Imakuni?
WHAT!? What did they contaminate the school with??

Some thing. I'm not sure what. Its this purple powder. When you try to remove it with water your skin turns purple. They had to decontaminte me with special soap. But it was bad, some people had their clothes consfiscated, people were wearing masks and gloves, they were testing blood pressure.


All I want for my birthday is to know that my friends are O.K.

Shelz4U June 15th, 2004 3:03 PM

Ack so sorry.. Erm Happy Birthday tho ^_^
BTW: Why do ya call her Lightning? Ain`t her name Erica? XD

TRIFORCE89 June 15th, 2004 3:07 PM

Yes, but I prefer to say Lightning while online. I don't call her Lightning IRL. Sometimes I say Erica her. Thankgod she's alright though *goes off to bombard her with PMs* She had minor too.

Cherrim June 15th, 2004 3:09 PM

I'm... fine. Pretty darn shaken, but fine. I seriously JUST got home.

That was the most disorganized thing I've ever seen, though. I... don't really know where to start. I will be blogging this pretty quickly (so I don't forget). So if you wanna know all the gritty little details, you can probably just look there. *doesn't feel like typing it just yet* I got those same little dots you did, T89... so they sent me to be "decontaminated" too. o.o; Then I had to go back in the line up (which consisted of 3 people, myself included, by that time). The purple dot things are fading, finally, but I can still see them. (I noticed them after you left, T89 @[email protected]) I'm okay, though. Just a little out of sorts, like I think I already said.

@[email protected] And happy birthday again, lol. Although, I'm sure it was probably the worst one you've ever had. x_X;;

Castrainer June 15th, 2004 3:09 PM

Good to hear everything is fine, Erica... ^^

TRIFORCE89 June 15th, 2004 3:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Lightning
I'm... fine. Pretty darn shaken, but fine. I seriously JUST got home.

That was the most disorganized thing I've ever seen, though. I... don't really know where to start. I will be blogging this pretty quickly (so I don't forget). So if you wanna know all the gritty little details, you can probably just look there. *doesn't feel like typing it just yet* I got those same little dots you did, T89... so they sent me to be "decontaminated" too. o.o; Then I had to go back in the line up (which consisted of 3 people, myself included, by that time). The purple dot things are fading, finally, but I can still see them. (I noticed them after you left, T89 @[email protected]) I'm okay, though. Just a little out of sorts, like I think I already said.

@[email protected] And happy birthday again, lol. Although, I'm sure it was probably the worst one you've ever had. x_X;;

Eep... I didn't get back in line. Hope that doesn't matter much. You being O.K. is the greatest birthday present I could get. You really don't know how worried I was on the way home.

Shelz4U June 15th, 2004 3:14 PM

Purple dots? O_O Erm thats odd..

Kayleigh June 15th, 2004 3:17 PM

That's so horrible; I'm sorry that all of that happened. I hate that it was on your birthday, too, TRIFORCE89. I'm glad to hear that you're both okay, though. I hope whatever it was that they spread wasn't anything seriously dangerous.

Rift June 15th, 2004 3:21 PM

Geez...that sounds like it really sucked Triforce and Erica...im glad to hear you guys are alright! Purple dots!? i wonder what the heck it is :\ well i hope you guys feel better, and happy birthday Triforce...but its probably not very happy for ya today is it? Well its just good to hear you guys are alright!

Kairi June 15th, 2004 3:23 PM

I’m glad you only both got minor then, in that case. Did you ever find out if school is going to be closed? @[email protected]; From what I understand no one really got what was going on and, as you said poorly organized but I’d be scared to go back after that. Heck I’m afraid to get neat paint in fear I’ll whiff too much of it. x.x;

Cherrim June 15th, 2004 3:36 PM

It was kinda funny because after they said on the announcements that it turned your hand purple (before we were let outside), one of our friends coloured most of his hand purple with a marker. (We were in art class, so there were plenty around.) Lol, he ended up having to specially wash his hands too because they sort of didn't believe that it was just marker. XD

*is slowly feeling better now that she's near a computer* <_< There was never more of a time when I wished I had some phone numbers from you guys so I could max out my minutes by calling long distance to rant about stupid people pulling pranks. XD (Because I would have, too)

DragonTrainer June 15th, 2004 3:38 PM

Geez, sounds like a bunch of ignorant little bunch of immature snotheads @@. Lol, maxing out minutes, how many do you get anyways? I get, I forgot how much on my cell, but it never lets me down :P

~DragonTrainer
:dragonite

Kairi June 15th, 2004 3:38 PM

Isn’t your hands being purple a good thing though? o.o; That’d be cool! The sickness wouldn’t be…but yeah, purple!~

^^NICK^^ v.3.0 June 15th, 2004 3:41 PM

Some people are so retarded. Contaminating a school is not funny, and it's dangerous. I'm sorry if any of you friends got hurt, but it's good you are okay.

Kairi June 15th, 2004 3:45 PM

I imagine they’re going to be pretty severely punished…were they members of the school or what? Did they get caught *that just occurred to her*
Edit: Yes they were. Expelled I suppose.

Cherrim June 15th, 2004 3:48 PM

Er... I think I've got about $60 on the phone now... I dunno how many minutes that is... let along long distance. But it's directly connected to my mom's credit card, so I could easily order more, lol.

And... having your hand purple would NOT be a good thing. People with a heavier case than I had were told to basically take off their clothes... they had to change into these white suit... things. x_x; *was so glad she didn't have to do that*

edit: It took me too long to type that. Anyway, I have no idea if they were caught - I'm guessing no, though. o.o; I'll probably have more updates tomorrow, as that's when they said they'd tell us about exams and everything.

Jacob Madrox June 15th, 2004 3:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Lightning
I'm... fine. Pretty darn shaken, but fine. I seriously JUST got home.

That was the most disorganized thing I've ever seen, though. I... don't really know where to start. I will be blogging this pretty quickly (so I don't forget). So if you wanna know all the gritty little details, you can probably just look there. *doesn't feel like typing it just yet* I got those same little dots you did, T89... so they sent me to be "decontaminated" too. o.o; Then I had to go back in the line up (which consisted of 3 people, myself included, by that time). The purple dot things are fading, finally, but I can still see them. (I noticed them after you left, T89 @[email protected]) I'm okay, though. Just a little out of sorts, like I think I already said.

@[email protected] And happy birthday again, lol. Although, I'm sure it was probably the worst one you've ever had. x_X;;

glad your okay, I amy not know you, but a death or something like that is a horrible thing. any news on the ppl who did it?

Cherrim June 15th, 2004 3:58 PM

Oh, there weren't any fatalities. They said that the powder stuff wasn't lethal, it was just irritating.. but that's still scaring me. ><; They told us not to touch our mouth or anything, but before I realized that I might have it, I was doing that. x_x; It may just be me being paranoid of having gotten this.... thing, but my face is all itchy and stuff now. x_x;;

*gets a Coke to make her feel better* <_<

TRIFORCE89 June 15th, 2004 4:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Lightning
Oh, there weren't any fatalities. They said that the powder stuff wasn't lethal, it was just irritating.. but that's still scaring me. ><; They told us not to touch our mouth or anything, but before I realized that I might have it, I was doing that. x_x; It may just be me being paranoid of having gotten this.... thing, but my face is all itchy and stuff now. x_x;;

*gets a Coke to make her feel better* <_<

You should stay home tommorow and see a doctor just to be safe. That's what I'm doing.

Chairman Kaga June 15th, 2004 4:24 PM

Can't those loser seniors get put up for life on charges of bioterrorism? I'd certainly charge them with bioterrorism, inciting panic, and other charges (too bad they can't go to jail for being morons)...sorry that happened, especially since it's your birthday.

TRIFORCE89 June 15th, 2004 4:29 PM

I bet this cost the school alot of money too.

Cassie-chan June 15th, 2004 4:40 PM

My goodness! What's the world come to? I'd never go to that school agein, I'd be so scared...

TRIFORCE89 June 15th, 2004 4:42 PM

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Originally Posted by girlgenius
My goodness! What's the world come to? I'd never go to that school agein, I'd be so scared...

Its one of the better schools. This is actually kinda a first really. The school near where we live (and we were both originally supposed to go) is horrible. Full of violence and drugs and so on.

Cassie-chan June 15th, 2004 4:46 PM

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Originally Posted by TRIFORCE89
Its one of the better schools. This is actually kinda a first really. The school near where we live (and we were both originally supposed to go) is horrible. Full of violence and drugs and so on.

At least you don't go there...I'm so lucky bad stuff hasn't happened at my school...

TRIFORCE89 June 15th, 2004 4:50 PM

Stuff is an everyday occurance at that other school. People had there arms broken in the beginning of the year at that one.

Chairman Kaga June 15th, 2004 4:59 PM

It's depressing how ignorant and violent some kids can be these days...no one's willing to lay down the law anymore =/

^^NICK^^ v.3.0 June 15th, 2004 7:12 PM

Oh gosh, if this happened at my school, I knowmy evil ***. principal would like, destroy the people would did that stuff. She's evil after all. People need to think about Newton's third law of motion.

Evil Togepi June 16th, 2004 12:02 AM

That's so scary O_o; And rather stupid on behalf of the person/people who did it, I'm glad you're both okay ^^

TRIFORCE89 June 16th, 2004 5:23 AM

According to the news. When and if the people are caught they can be fined and have time in jail. And the substance is Potassium Permanganate.

Cherrim June 16th, 2004 5:32 AM

I'm reading news reports from various websites (some of which spelling our city wrong <_<) and it's pretty cool seeing it in a bunch of places. :O And apparently it's on the radio a lot too.

They'll probably catch the people through the tapes from the video cameras around the school. o.o

Chairman Kaga June 16th, 2004 6:09 AM

Time for a science lesson! (eh, not really...I just googled potassium permanganate)

Potassium permanganate, KMnO4, is a purple crystalline compound with a metallic sheen. It is soluble in water, in acetone and in methanol, but it is decomposed by ethanol.
Potassium permanganate is prepared by fusing manganese dioxide with potassium hydroxide to form the potassium manganate and then electrolysing the manganate solution using iron electrodes at about 60 degC.

Potassium permanganate is widely used as a powerful oxidizing agent, as a disinfectant in a variety of applications, and as an analytical oxidant reagent in redox titrations.

But what senior with an IQ low enough to take part in the prank would know how to make/obtain this stuff? o_O;;

^^NICK^^ v.3.0 June 16th, 2004 8:52 AM

Oh, something happened today, our last day. We were in second period, and we had an evacuation drill. We thought it was just a drill, but after five minutes in the hot sun, we started wondeirng what was happing. The teachers weren't telling us anything, and we were impatient. The heat were blzaing, and after about a half an hour, we walked to a neighboring elemntary school. We stayed there for an hour an a half I think. Then we got word to come back to our school. We ate lunch, and it was a mess. Every student in the school was packed in the cafeteria. The principal told us there was a bomb thread made by an anonymus caller. The police and bomb detection squad and the bomb sniffing dog came. It was hectic, but in the end it was cool because all of my friends were saying they will miss me and each other. I felt wanted.

Cherrim June 16th, 2004 8:55 AM

@[email protected]; Apparently it's available in most high school science labs, so they would have had access to the chemicals. Blah~

That's scary, Nick. ._.; I'd be so freaked if there was a bomb threat... because they barely told us anything yesterday so we all thought it was just... a normal prank and nothing serious. o.o; But a bomb threat? @@;;

TRIFORCE89 June 16th, 2004 9:01 AM

So there was a bomb threat? Did they find an actual bomb?

^^NICK^^ v.3.0 June 16th, 2004 9:06 AM

Yeah, but they didn't find anything. They police, bomb detection people, and the sniffing dogs searched. Nothing, all that waiting in the hot sun, for more than half of the day. Well, I'll never forget that last day of school, ever!

TRIFORCE89 June 16th, 2004 9:15 AM

It just dawned on me that today is the last day of school before exams. And I'm here at home. Ooo I really would've liked to see some of my friends today incase I don't seem them over the summer. Yesterday isn't really the last day I want to remember. And Lightning's at school doing absolutely nothing.

Flaming Torchic June 16th, 2004 11:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TRIFORCE89
Me and Lightning are not dead, incase you were wondering why both of us were not on yet. We had a health scare today.

Grade 12s decided it would be fun if they ran havoc on our school. They set crickets loose, one ran around wearing a mask carring a paint ball gun, and to top it off they contaminate our school with something.

We've both been waiting outside for a couple of hours waiting to get chekced if we have whatever it was. I did/do but it was a minor case. Though I'm really worried because the little card I had also said "Major" and "Deceased At" on it. I'm left in the dark, and I have no idea how my friends are, especially Lightning. I really hope she's fine, she is my greatest friend (although I've had so few in my lifetime) and it would kill me if something horrible happened to her.

I'm not kidding either, I'm confident that whatever it was is something that can be serious. My mom informs me that four people went to the hospital, plus I doubt the medical people would be wearing suits and masks if it was safe. It looked like that seen from E.T. Scary stuff.

I'm staying home tomorrow and going to the doctor's. I don't care that I need to pick up my books to study for an exam, my health is more important than my grades. We were outside all squished together, so we were bound to breath something in. What a great birthday this has turned out to be for me so far.

It's funny how these things have the worst timing to happen, isn't it? >>; Anyways, I'm sorry you had to go through all of that on your birthday. =\ Wow, that has never EVER happened at my school, but I have only been in this school for a year, so for all I know, they may do this in our school in the future. oO Anyways, were the grade 12ers aware that they were harming you guys? Because I bet they were just clueless and didn't know it would cause health issues (which still doesn't make it ok), but then again, knowing some of them, they could have been fully aware. oO

TRIFORCE89 June 16th, 2004 11:59 AM

The main health issues were to though who have asma (drat, I've studied life saving I should know how to spell that) and the idiots who decided to put their fingers in their mouth when they saw their hands were purple (Ooo, I bet this tastes good). But I think the 12s were clueless too. I didn't mind the crickets, it was the health scare pandamonium that was scary.

Chairman Kaga June 16th, 2004 12:06 PM

Ah, so it wasn't a germ...there go the bioterror charges ;_;

Come to think of it, this will probably mess up the school for years to come...I bet towards the end of the year every year everyone will probably have mandatory backpack inspections and things like that...they forced us all to have mesh backpacks after the rash of school shootings about 5 years ago and hired cops, which always made me uneasy, especially after a really mean-spirited one chewed me out for saying hello to some kindergartners when I was in 6th grade...he was just looking for an excuse to be mean to a kid -.- These stupid jerks ruin it for the rest of us all the time...no dances because someone brought weed to a dance, no water because someone brought in vodka, stuff like that...

How widespread was the attack, by the way? Did the whole school get hit or just parts of it?

Porygon June 16th, 2004 12:07 PM

Grrr… people these days… I hate the way things have become… I hope when they catch those freaks, they forcefeed them their little powder crap.

TRIFORCE89 June 16th, 2004 12:07 PM

The whole school was on "lock-down" then evacuated. The entire school had to be "decontaminated".

Cherrim June 16th, 2004 12:12 PM

Rofl, I found a cricket in school today. *brought it outside* :3

The powder was apparently on all of the railings and stuff. And we've got about 7 stairwells at least. =\

Porygon June 16th, 2004 12:13 PM

Ouch… they aren't purple stairwells, are they?

Cherrim June 16th, 2004 12:15 PM

No, apparently the power just turns purple when it comes in contact with something moist - like skin. I dunno. @[email protected]; (It's sad that I don't know much, since I experienced it. XD;) But all the railings were normal colour, so...

TRIFORCE89 June 16th, 2004 12:20 PM

We probably both got it in the art room. Since two people from there already had it and we were next to eachother the entire time. We probably bith touched the same thingg. Possibly a "contaminated" desk or something.

Porygon June 16th, 2004 12:22 PM

Grrr… *gets even madder at those SOBs*

Do this to my friends will ya? Kyaaaaah! Eat my knife!

Seriously.


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