Police investigated threatening posts left on a Forest Hills High School Facebook page early Wednesday morning. Officials also investigated a potential bomb threat at the school. Neither the Facebook threats nor the bomb threat held any credibility, according to authorities. Photo courtesy Michael Perlman
A string of threatening posts left anonymously on a Forest Hills High School confessional Facebook page sparked a police investigation through this morning, authorities said.
Police discovered two suspicious posts on the student-run Facebook page “Forest Hills HS Confessions” warning others not to come to school on Wednesday. One statement posted on page said, “Seriously don’t come to school, unless you want to be in the news.” The initial police response came soon after midnight Wednesday morning and produced “negative results,” the NYPD said.
“Someone had posted a message alluding to the fact that something would happen in the school,” a spokesman for the NYPD said. “The investigation came back with negative results.”
The NYPD said it also investigated a potential bomb threat at the school just in case, though none of the posts specifically mentioned such a threat.
The school did not return calls seeking comment.
All three posts came from the Facebook page late Tuesday night and were met mostly with sarcastic responses from other students at the high school.
“I’m coming! Time to be famous,” one student wrote.
Another student speculated, “Oh boy, I’m guessing senior prank?”
One student even saw the anonymous threats as a humorous attempt to recreate the last time Forest Hills High School made the news when its students caused an uproar participating in the Harlem Shake flash dance trend in early 2013.
“Oh no…another idiot wants to preform for the whole first floor some new 30 second dance,” Rafael Musayev posted on the threat. “Just saying, good luck!”
By Phil Corso
