Two stories in one! Are they somehow related? Odd goings on for sure. I wonder what is considered to be a "disturbing" act on a school roof?

fappin' maybe?

You know, when we did stuff like that the janitor just shouted 'hey you kids get off of there' and that was the end of it.

Wow. So all it takes is a crank call, not even a bomb threat, and a school goes into lockdown. And this is the right thing?

I think the right thing is what caranmacil said. And a couple of good whacks with the strap.

Wow is right. Did it look like they were setting up a bomb or brandishing semi automatics?
This does seems to me to be the kind of thing we used to just get yelled at for and all was forgotten. But in this environment of terrorists around every corner one can't be too careful...

Perhaps they were urinating, that would be disturbing to some. I think that this was probably a another case of over reaction. Of course the police would say "you did the right thing" they need to feel wanted just like everyone else.
metalman.

Or perhaps they were putting a noxious chemical into the schools ventilation equipment or possibly loosing the fittings on natural gas pipes or other dangerous things that are usually isolated by distance and lack of easy access from the general public. In this day an age we error on the preventive side and the shutdown was warranted. If you saw someone on your neighbors roof, and you knew it wasn't your neighbor, would you not be calling the police to report it ?

New book on the market:

"How To Make People Live Their Lives Being Scared Shitless All The Time"

by George W. Bush.

I saw a kid at the Mr. G's and he wasn't using the Screamer machine properly, it looked like he was tampering with it instead of getting a slurpee.

I immediately became suspicious, took him down and tasered him several times.

I feel much safer now.

I can justify any action I take, based on my own unwarranted fear.

Oh wait, that's a new policing motto.....

This also took cops away from their important work of dishing out speeding tickets.

If someone had not reported it and the school hadn't done what they did and something did happen, the parents, media and lawyers would have had a field day. If I'm not mistaken, a lot of the attacks on schools in the last few years have been done by youth. It is sad that we can't just send the custodian out to chew the little twerps out anymore. Their union probably won't allow him to be put into that dangerous/confrontational situation and the little twerps would probably end up suing someone as their feelings were hurt and they were being picked on.