Mr.Mister Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 Normally, I don't make threads but this caught my attention. It's quite f*cked up. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england...ter/8233964.stm Two teenagers planned to blow up their school in a massacre timed to coincide with the anniversary of a massacre at a US school, a court has heard. Matthew Swift, 18, and his friend, Ross McKnight, 16, of Denton, Greater Manchester, deny conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions. Manchester Crown Court heard they plotted to blow up Audenshaw School 10 years after the Columbine tragedy. A teacher and 12 students died at a school in Columbine, Colorado, in 1999. The court heard the pair became obsessed with the massacre on 20 April 1999, and wanted to emulate the actions of the two killers - Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. Their two targets were a shopping complex, Crown Point North, and Audenshaw School where Mr McKnight was still a student and Mr Swift a former pupil, the court heard. The jury was told the boys planned to murder teachers and pupils The pair were arrested in March. Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, said to the jury: "It is the prosecution case that these two young men sat in the dock had planned to copy and emulate the actions of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, here in the UK." The court heard Mr McKnight and Mr Swift had agreed to detonate a bomb at Crown Point North as a diversion before driving to their school, murdering teachers and pupils and then killing themselves. Mr Wright said they were also fascinated by the Oklahoma city bombings, carried out by Timothy McVeigh in 1995, which resulted in the deaths of 168 people and injuries to 450 others. Mr McKnight wrote an essay about a fictional massacre at a school in Audenshaw in which ten people died and hundreds were hurt. 'Greatest massacre' Mr Wright said: "The 10 people (were) killed by the one person who had some sort of grudge against the school or some sort of grudge against people who went to school. "The evidence, you may think, this was not a piece of creative writing, this was an explanation of the state of mind of that young man." We will walk into school and at the end of it no one will walk out alive ...after we have finished in Audenshaw we will have to kill ourselves there and then Ross McKnight's diary entry Eighteen months after the essay was written, Mr McKnight rang a friend when he was drunk to tell her he loved her and that "he couldn't wait until April 20 - the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre". The jury also heard the defendants wanted to adopt the personas of the Columbine killers by using their nicknames or alter-egos. Entries from Mr McKnight's diary included talk of "Project Rainbow's" official start day in November 2007. In the diary he spoke of the "greatest massacre ever" and killing thousands of people. "We will walk into school and at the end of it no one will walk out alive... after we have finished in Audenshaw we will have to kill ourselves there and then." Mr Swift had been given an "exclusion order" banning him from Crown Point, which sparked his resentment, the jury was told. Crown Point North was one of the boys' targets, the prosecution said After police arrested him they found a plan of his former school and a manual with instructions on ingredients to use in explosives. A diary was also recovered in which Mr Swift talked of his unhappiness and railed against life in general, Mr Wright told the jury. It contained notes on the Columbine massacre and pictures of Klebold and Harris taken from CCTV footage of their attack, which Mr Swift described as a "beautiful image". Photographs of two other people who carried out school massacres - Finnish student Pekka-Eric Auvinen and Virginia Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho - also featured. Swift wrote: "I do not consider myself to be normal, come to think of it I do not think of myself as human." Another entry read: "I will complete Project Rainbow, I will show no mercy... I will make history." The trial continues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeperRed Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 glad they were caught before anyone got hurt but i will put money on they were all bark and no bite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d0mm2k8 Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 What the f*ck is wrong with some people? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livejoker Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 School is cool. Don't blow it up. Blow it up and you'll look like a fool. Man this story is seriously f*cked-up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guns N R0se Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 Who names their plan to blow up a school "Project Rainbow"? Anyway, it's good they got caught. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanceVanceDance07 Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 Yeah, this is a pretty messed up story. Killing innocent people, or at least planning to, is never cool. I hope they receive the appropriate sentence that the courts can hand down. We don't need another Columbine or Virginia Tech or anything like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrcTOtheJ Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 Wow thats fu*ked up why are people so screwed up in the head now a days. Glad they were caught. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SanAndreasManiac Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 something similar happened in my school (not common, my school is the most spoiled and expensive in town): a guy planted a bomb in the restroom, he got an expulsion, but the funniest about it is that it was during a test, and when the teachers gone out of the classes, everybody went fishing answers from other's tests! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhoda Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 Audenshaw's not that far from me at all, in fact it's close enough to where I live for me to consider it "local". It's bad news but I'm not in the least surprised as Audenshaw borders Droylsden and Ashton, two rather rough areas. I've felt threatened walking through both, but I didn't expect a school plot. Good to see they got the bastards though, I dare say I know people in that school and in that year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Girish Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 Who names their plan to blow up a school "Project Rainbow"? Says the person with rainbow colours in his sig. This is seriously f*cked up though. They need some serious counselling. I don't mind their suicidal tendencies but keeping them around other people is nowhere near safe. Good that they'll be put away for a long time. Hopefully, they'll learn there is much more to life than wanting to re-enact a massacre and destroy lives. Not all people change but these are just kids, so I hope they do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Horror Is Alive Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 They should be shot. Pure and simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtaivpc Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 two kids in america doing their thing, nothing special Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robinski Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 two kids in america doing their thing, nothing special Except that, you know, it was in the UK and not the US. if you're going to make xenophobic statements at least read the f*cking discussion piece. Seriously f*cked up sh*t right there. I've never heard of any school shootings/plots in the UK, and I'm glad we managed to avoid this one. These guys need some professional help, especially seeing as one didn't even see himself as human anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtaivpc Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 two kids in america doing their thing, nothing special Except that, you know, it was in the UK and not the US. if you're going to make xenophobic statements at least read the f*cking discussion piece. Seriously f*cked up sh*t right there. I've never heard of any school shootings/plots in the UK, and I'm glad we managed to avoid this one. These guys need some professional help, especially seeing as one didn't even see himself as human anymore. MEH, the entire world is going to be this way soon, which really is a pity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Tony Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 What makes people think there was no such thing as crazy people one hundred or even one thousands years ago? When ever anything bad is reported it's always "what is the world coming to?" or "people are just crazy nowadays." This is seriously messed up though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hell No.. Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 Heh crazy, didn't expect them to be British either, about time. I'm on Twitch! Are you? Come say Hi. https://www.twitch.tv/priceyryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GtaHitmanStrikesBack Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 glad they were caught before anyone got hurt but i will put money on they were all bark and no bite I would say that to they are just neds wanting attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philster_12 Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 whew, lifes have been saved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnage1120 Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 Angsty emo highschool teenagers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Haired Freaky Guy Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 but i will put money on they were all bark and no bite Same here. We hada bomb warning up where I live (Keighley, near Bradford) and we were all rushed off the streets and all roads were shut down. It was said that 3 bombs had been planted in locations around the town, but it ended up just been nothing...someone getting attention. It's good to see them get caught before anything happened though. Even if they were just making it up, they still need assessing for mental issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whytey Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 Angsty emo highschool teenagers I doubt they where emo more like some scumbags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unvirginiser Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 This wasn't far from me and Masterkraft Quite frightening really, glad I'm out of school now. It's weird that they were gonna' blow up the shopping centre too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTASIX Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 (edited) Busted!!! How did it get out? Did one of them tell someone ? EDIT - oh, they wrote it in a diary? Fools! Edited September 3, 2009 by GTASIX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manofpeace Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 Busted!!! How did it get out? Did one of them tell someone ? EDIT - oh, they wrote it in a diary? Fools! Do you happen to be an expert in the art of blowing up public venues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTASIX Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 Busted!!! How did it get out? Did one of them tell someone ? EDIT - oh, they wrote it in a diary? Fools! Do you happen to be an expert in the art of blowing up public venues? It looks to me like they wanted the attention. Honestly I don't think they'd write it all down if they were for real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Haired Freaky Guy Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 Busted!!! How did it get out? Did one of them tell someone ? EDIT - oh, they wrote it in a diary? Fools! Do you happen to be an expert in the art of blowing up public venues? It looks to me like they wanted the attention. Honestly I don't think they'd write it all down if they were for real. Didn't Harris & Klebold write everything down? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unopescio Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 Busted!!! How did it get out? Did one of them tell someone ? EDIT - oh, they wrote it in a diary? Fools! Do you happen to be an expert in the art of blowing up public venues? It looks to me like they wanted the attention. Honestly I don't think they'd write it all down if they were for real. Didn't Harris & Klebold write everything down? Yeah. But I guess they didn't drunk dial and tell random people the whole plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_-=Zombie=-_ Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 its always the f*cking schools. why dont they blow up political Houses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Tony Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 its always the f*cking schools. why dont they blow up political Houses? People would still die or get injured you know. It'd be nice if they just blew themselves up in some empty field. That way nobody gets hurt except them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnage1120 Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 Angsty emo highschool teenagers I doubt they where emo more like some scumbags There was a difference? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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