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Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School (www.gadgetreview.com)
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Snapchat’s automated system flagged a private DM to three contacts and triggered an FBI alert in under 60 minutes, ending her teaching career

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[+] -23 points 3 months ago (30 children)

A student had walked up to her laptop and deleted her lesson plan mid-class. frustrated, she typed something like "should I shoot him" with a gun emoji.

Yeah not getting any sympathy from me on that one...

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  • [–] 35 points 3 months ago (29 children)

    It was a private message. You've never engaged in hyperbole with your friends?

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  • [+] -15 points 3 months ago (28 children)

    About shooting children? No. Absolutely not.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 months ago* (18 children)

    Somebody report Bill Watterson for threatening children.

    Seriously, I've never met an involved parent (or any other child caretaker) who didn't admit to moments of hyperbole like this, even if only internally. You're just being a judgemental prick.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago

    ugh. I have met people like this before. I mentioned once to someone. You know when you are so angry you could literally kill em. They responded no never. no one should. Im like. Im talking for a brief second you are seeing red. still they deny. I just dropped it but like would not trust anything coming from that person to be truth.

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  • [+] -13 points 3 months ago* (16 children)

    That's not a threat, it's a public comic. I'm not judging anyone, but you have to look at it from the POV of law enforcement. If they saw a comment like this and did nothing, and something actually happened, they'd be absolutely crucified for "ignoring red flags".

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I think the thing here is why are they being contacted about a private message. If anything only those party to it should possibly report it. It stands as it does as a cautionary tale about using any service like this because private conversations should not be looked at in a public announcement kind of way.

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  • [+] -7 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    I think the thing here is why are they being contacted about a private message

    Because WhatsApp scans messages for when "imminent harm exists".

    If anything only those party to it should possibly report it

    That's not how Snapchat works.

    It stands as it does as a cautionary tale about using any service like this

    Absolutely.

    because private conversations should not be looked at in a public announcement kind of way

    It wasn't a "public announcement", it was forwarded to law enforcement.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Did we just move the goalposts from 'nobody can make jokes like this' to 'police have to investigate since they got a report'?

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  • [+] -10 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    We didn't move anything, the statement I made was that they get no sympathy from me.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    The implication there of course being that she's in the wrong, hence why she doesn't deserve any sympathy for having her life destroyed over a dark joke.

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  • [+] -6 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    The implication there of course being that she’s in the wrong

    Because she is.

    having her life destroyed over a dark joke

    Volpe was arrested for disorderly conduct, held overnight at Tazewell County Jail, and released on $0 bond under Illinois’s SAFE-T Act. No formal court charges were filed. Her student-teaching placement was terminated.

    That's a long long way from "having her life destroyed".

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    So we're back to 'nobody can make jokes like this'.

    That's a long long way from "having her life destroyed".

    She's lost her job, and will never be able to get back into teaching. The publicity will probably make it difficult for her to get any sort of good position in future. Most people would certainly feel that way.

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  • [+] -7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    So we’re back to ’nobody can make jokes like this’.

    Repeating the same nonsense over and over doesn't make it any more true.

    She’s lost her job

    As she should.

    and will never be able to get back into teaching

    That's up to schools to decide. If they decide they don't want someone on their staff that thinks it's okay to joke about murdering children, that's their prerogative. No one is doing that to her, she did that to herself.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    You've said that she's in the wrong. How does that not translate to 'nobody can make jokes like this', would you kindly like to explain?

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  • [+] -6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It shouldn't be controversial that adults shouldn't make jokes about murdering children, I don't understand why this needs to be explained.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Okay now I get it, at first I thought you were being serious but then I realized you were joking with the law enforcement getting crucified comment. You'd have to be literally brain dead to think something that stupid.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    You dont know any teachers do you?

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  • [+] -11 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Of course I do.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Not the people that taught you, i mean friends as an adult.

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  • [+] -13 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Does any adult really not know any teachers?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Apparently not you, cause i guarantee that every teacher with experience has had at least one student that turned their humor dark.

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  • [+] -6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    No, as I said previously, I know lots of teachers. I have one in my immediate family. You can keep insisting for some weird reason that I don't, but it's not a good look, because you don't know anything about me.

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