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Story copypasta'd from: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20727602/

KXAN-TV

Police officers are investigating a bomb threat at Pflugerville High School.

A caller tipped off the Pflugerville Police Department early Tuesday morning, reporting that someone had posted messages on a Web site about blowing up the high school.

Police took a juvenile into custody and charged him in connection with the incident.

The posting threatened pipe bombs would detonate at 9:11 a.m. on Sept. 11 at Pflugerville High School, in addition to armed assaults at the school. The posting included a photo of the juvenile with him holding two apparent PVC pipe bombs. The suspected pipe bombs had wires, component board and batteries, and the message indicated people at the school would be harmed.

Pflugerville police took the evidence into custody to be analyzed, after they made contact with the juvenile and his parents. All the items found appeared to be toys.

The juvenile is in custody of the Pflugerville police on third-degree felony terroristic threat and Class A misdemeanor hoax bomb charges.

(me speaking again)

Just wanted to share this lulzy story, the kid thought he could escape the power of anonymous but the EXIF data on the jpgs that his camera took ended up leading anonymous to his father's name and info and eventually him, and once the location was known it was easy enough for several anonymous to call in to local police and make it sound like a genuine threat. I actually caught the original thread as it was winding down and people were calling in to police, but still really neat to see things unfold and an arrest made.