Lockdown mode at UBC

Submitted by David on Thu, 2008-01-31 00:04

Apparently this was all due to a threatening email that was received by some unknown individual:

At about 2:30 p.m. the university issued a campus-wide bulletin telling students not to leave the buildings they were in. At one point, UBC President Stephen Toope sent out an email to faculty and staff stating that people who did not have to come to campus should stay away. (CTV News)

They called in the SWAT team, bomb squad, dog teams, major crimes unit, a helicopter, and required police escorts for anyone moving in, out, or around the building.

I know that gunmen have in the past shot people on campus, most recent in mind being Virginia Tech, but do you think that this is a little overkill given the type of threat.

(CTV isn't reporting the specific trigger for the lockdown, but the Canadian Press says that it was an emailed threat).