"In the aftermath of the massacre on the Virginia Tech campus – and an alleged homicide at Sacramento State – a college student can now be arrested for making foolish statements.
It happened at UC Davis, where a graduate teaching assistant in the drama department spent four days in jail for making statements that some students in his class took as a bomb threat."
It happened at UC Davis, where a graduate teaching assistant in the drama department spent four days in jail for making statements that some students in his class took as a bomb threat."
According to Yolo County court documents,James Marchbanks told his class: "I have a bomb, this is the last time I am ever going to see you. I am going to leave class before the bomb goes off, but you are going to stay here until it's done."
The bomb was metaphorical. What Marchbanks slung on the floor were not explosives but forms for roughly 16 students to evaluate him as a student teacher.