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Montreal student thwarts British school attack
A Montreal university student is being credited with foiling a troubled British teen's plot to firebomb his high school.

20/03/2009 9:57:51 AM

The photo posted on the NewGrounds.com website is seen in this image taken from video on CTV Newsnet.

CTV.ca News Staff

J.P. Neufeld, a student at Concordia University, had logged onto an online chat forum over breakfast Tuesday when he spotted the threat to burn down Attleborough High School in Norfolk.

He took it seriously and immediately called local police using his Internet phone service after doing a quick Web search to find the phone number.

Within half an hour, Norfolk Constabulary officers had seized a 16-year-old teen at the doors of the school. The teen was carrying a knife, matches and a canister of fuel. Police later searched the boy's home and confiscated his computer.

The teen, identified only as T.B., was arrested on suspicion of threats to commit criminal damage and possession of an offensive weapon. He's in custody under the U.K.'s Mental Health Act.

Neufeld saw the threat posted on NewGrounds.com, a website dedicated to sharing music and homemade animation. "Today at 11:30 GMT I will attack my school with arson and other forms of violence. Those bastards will pay," the post read.

Below, was a badly lit photo of a gasoline can. Also included were a time and date stamp taken from a video from the 1999 Columbine massacre.

Neufeld said he decided right away to take it seriously.

"When I saw the message I did not think it was a joke, I thought people do not make threats without intending to go through with them," Neufeld told the Norwich Evening News.

He said the officer who took his call sounded surprised to be getting a call from Canada but took down the information nonetheless.

After calling police, Neufeld tried to stall T.B., asking him if he really intended to walk into school with a gas can.

"Pretty much," T.B. answered.

Once T.B. had left the forum, Neufeld and another user named "deckheadtottie" announced they had called police. Several users pitched in, establishing T.B.'s identity.

The school's principal, Stuart Bailey, said he's grateful the attack was stopped before it began.

"I am very grateful to the person who did the right thing and made us aware," he said. "...Whilst the incident is clearly not welcome, I am pleased with the manner in which it was dealt with both by my staff, and by Norfolk Constabulary."

Norfolk police also expressed gratitude and praised the actions of the chat room users.

"It goes to show that things written on the Internet can be viewed across the world and we thank the person who has read this and done something about it," police Supt. Katie Elliott told British journalists.

Tattle-tale.

are gas cans in the UK all green like that?

Fuck, I'd be in jail right now if RM acted like these snitches.

You've threatened to commit acts of violence at your school before?

I would gladly snitch you out if you want.

but that would be ignorant, yo

Uh, idiot, I'm not talking about school bombings. Hell, PMA was posting my school's phone number telling people to report me as a drug dealer.

everything is about you, isn't it?

and these people are snitches because they saved some lives?

God Jammer you are just a pile of idiot. Kudos to these kids for calling the fuzz.

the thing about "reporting you for being a drug dealer" was a joke.

aside from wanting to get back at the people who spray painted your house and the people who tried to light you on fire (the same person maybe? i dont remember), i don't recall you really talking about actually DOING anything violent. but yes, if you, or anyone else, posted about how you were going to shoot up/blow up a school/business/other public place, then yes, you can bet your ass i'd turn you, or anyone else, in

jammer, i don't think anyone here is planning on turning you in for drugs, as a good portion of this board has used at some point in their life.

Oh God! What a fucking martyr you'd become.

The internet would weep for you, Vin.


As mecca implied these people are not snitches because they reported a threat. Only an idiotic, angst-ridden, teenager would take up such a view. Or those idiots that never grow up and live such worthy lifestyles.

twarted?

thanks.