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E-PrinceThe University community experienced its third gun scare in five months on Monday morning before officials determined the object in question was a toy water gun.
The incident began just after 8 a.m., when a University employee saw what ...
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I got an e-mail at my g-mail account, but me and another Princetonian intern got nothing at our campus e-mail addresses. What's up with that? Did the system malfunction or did they stop sending e-mails once it was resolved?
Never mind...literally just got the e-mail.
BTW it's "all-clear" according to the Princeton website.
it was a toy gun
I'd rather be killed than get another one of these annoying messages
Wow, Princeton, way to go. You've had this system for, what, a year? It's already given so many false positives, I can't take it seriously. The next time I get one of these, all I'm going to think is "Oh no! Someone's got a Super-Soaker." Ridiculous.
Wolf: the system isn't giving false positives; those are manufactured by people who carry things that look like guns around campus. Twice, they carried things designed to look like guns. Would you really prefer not to get alerts about dangers to you (even if they include false positives)?
It's not just students who are being notified each time this happens; it is also the thousands of employees who work on campus, of which I am one. "False alarm" or not, we want to feel safe in our workplace, so by all means, notify us. Thank you.
toy water FUN
Well, how many false alarms can we get before a real one hits? But Princeton won't arm its cops and the Borough doesn't know campus well enough. I guess they removed probability and logic from Princeton's course offerings.
How does having false positives make true positives more likely? Show me a study that suggests playing with water guns makes people more likely to carry real guns. And what makes you say that Boro cops don't know the campus well enough? Do you have any evidence of that? Methinks not.