Reply #25: these threats must be taken very seriously [View All]

[shireen]

What happened to Keith is extremely serious. He did the right thing by calling 911 and getting checked out at a hospital. For that newspaper to mock him is really really low.

Some years back, when the Unibomber was sending bomb packages to scientists at academic/research institutions, we had a bomb scare here at work. My workplace is involved in a high-profile NASA project, so when one of the scientists received an unmarked package, he called security, and they contacted the police and bomb squad. I got to watch how they "detonated" the package, which was fascinating. Fortunately, the package contained a journal! It was funny, but also *not* funny. Sometimes, we use humor to conceal our anxiety about a serious situation. But what that newspaper did, poke fun at Keith in a malicious way, is totally reprehensible.