"We built it to see if we can" Yeah right. It woudn't have been under the car if that was the reason. Criminals are so stupid thinking their excuse is going to work.
I got news their excuse is not going to work thats very stupid idiots i tell u.Bombs are bad people that make them also think they won't be caught Oh YES TheY WILL. They need to have their asses thrown in prison
33 years have passed since this happened. At the time this happened, I was eight turning nine and my brother was 6 1/2. We were living in Fountain Hills, Arizona. This happened three days before Easter. If it was 11 o’clock in Kansas, it was 10 o’clock in Arizona so Andrew and I had already gone to sleep. We were going to be in school the next day. We were attending McDowell Mountain Elementary School. Andrew was in kindergarten while I was in second grade. When I heard about the bomb, I was frightened.
I know nobody will probably ever look at this again, but my mom was the lady at the desk at 6:54!! She told me the producers wanted her to pretend she was sleeping, but she refused knowing she’d lose her job at the dorms.
Even for a re-enactment, she would lose her job? Couldn't she just say to the boss she was pretending to be a sleep for a television show for the producers of Rescue 911? I'm sure the boss would have heard of the show, event though at the time it was relatively new
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This is one of the random bomb threats that has been going on in the late eighties early nineties they did not arrest Unabomber until 96 and McVeigh and Nichols did not get caught until 96. Today if you set off a bomb it is a one way ticket to Florence and you get placed on Bombers Row right next to the death chamber.
They don't send bombers to a Cuban death camp if you commit terrorism in the United States they send you to Florence what is the penitentiary over and Colorado Springs outside of NORAD known as the Alcatraz of the Rockies is the worst of the worst most of the prisoners from gitmo are being sent here.
Rescue 9-1-1- had many experiments and in this segment the shot through the binoculars is cool when the officer in the Jeep was looking to see what was going on.
There were a couple of five segment episodes in Season 4 (401 and 408). Those were both specials, though. The only five segment episode after Season 1 not be designated as a special episode was 714. Episode 223 also had at least five segments, but it was a 90-minute episode.
Episodes with 900 numbers were episodes that contained a mix of new and repeat stories from past episodes. For example, Episode 954 (which was part of season 3) had two new stories ("EMT Husband Save" and "Freon Freak") and two repeat stories from season 1 ("Rescuers Rescued" and "Pesky Python"). Episode 958H (part of season 6) had a new story about kids falling through ice, and a repeat story from season 5 about a boy drowning in a river.
This aired on a Wednesday night at 10:45 PM. I think they had a movie or a special that ran two hours and 45 minutes, and they needed something to fill the gap. Since Rescue 911 is broken down into self-contained segments, it was probably the easiest way to fill the 15-minute time block. FAM could have aired this segment by taking the commercial break out and putting it with "EMT Husband Save" and "Freon Freak" from Episode 954, and removing one of the two reused segments from that episode.
This was an interesting segment because it dealt with a bomb going off but no one getting hurt. There probably were other "explosion" segments with someone getting hurt.
You've gotta give him credit for it though. He makes the show what it is, "dramatic" to use your word. I can't think of anyone else who could've done a better job of hosting this show! Although, Robert Stack would've been good for the Arlington Segment simply because that one is so scary, and if you've watched Unsolved Mysteries, you'd know that Stack has a really creepy voice! Shatner made that segment really scary though, so no worries LOL!
we had bomb threats all through out high school. almost once a month we would get some prank pulled just because they thought it was funny, and cool to get out of class. The teaches at my school had no control of their students, they would purposely get them self's in trouble just to get out of work.
yes, who can ever forget the one where the 2 kids and their father were going to fix the furnace and lighting a match only to cause a freak accident or the Explosion on Episode #109 where a teenager saves kids from a house about to explode, or the dynamite segment #115, or 327 where the boy plays with a firecracker.
Oh my, when I saw the timer on the bomb '40 seconds left' I just think like 'HOLY GOD!!' If I have a bomb with 40 seconds left in my hands, I will freak out for sure, and it's hard for me not to throw that bomb >< (scary)
"we get bomb threats all the time" - geez, makes me want to go there! I'll bet their from the University of Memphis (ncaa tournament joke- no malice ment) I'm impressed they actually stake out- our cops just issue tickets and ride around in a sports car they splurged on. If someone was breaking into a car, I'm sure they'd just write the car a ticket! (btw, I do not go to the University of Kansas- Im in a college in Arkansas)
Since this was a 1 segment episode, Shatner should have said at the beginning "we begin AND end at ..." I never saw this quick mini episode when it first aired on CBS. The TV website that has episode summaries of almost every show said this aired on a Wednesday or Thursday night at 10:45pm!!! Most likely I didn't know about it because it was not on the usual Tuesday that 911 usualy aired. And at 10:45pm on a school night, I was not allowed to stay up that late!
I know right? We need harsher sentences for stuff like this. Maybe rotting away your entire life in prison would deter young people from doing stupid shit like this.
In later seasons they focused more on ambulance calls, but the in the first couple of seasons they gave roughly equal attention to ambulance and police calls, with fire still being a minority. In the first season, nearly every episode had a police call, with some episodes having two police calls. Police calls on Rescue 911 involved ambulaces about half the time, other times the stories were situations like burglaries/robberies, hostage situations, or kidnappings where no one was injured.
The segment with the 3rd airplane wheel not coming down(something to do with the faulty green light indicator)is the first seg I remember being part of a 5 seg ep.
Reguarding Freon Freak- wasn't that where the Dad was camping out with the kids in the backyard-- The only thing I remember was a loud pop sound when the boy was lying next to the airhole of the matress. I don't remember the little girl hopping in it...
Season 3, episode 24. This episode was a 15-minute (or quarter-hour) episode, which is where the Q in 324Q comes from. Most episodes were an hour long. Half-hour episodes had an H after the episode number. For example: Episode 13H was a half-hour long episode. Not sure whether or not there was an episode 13H.
Either some episodes had unusually shorter segments than usual, or none of the segments in a five segment episode were given a "When we continue" in the middle of them. Bare in mind that segments including a "When we continue" usually took up more time than those that didn't have one. As a side note, I think the first five segment episodes were 101, 102, 103, 104, 106, 107, and 108. I don't think five segment episodes started appearing again until the 6th season or something.
2 Segments would be half an episode 4 segments would be a full episode 1 segment would be a Quarter episode--thank you for the new found knowledge!! What would a 3 segment episode be called??
@breeadams Season 3, episode 24. This was a 15-minute (or Quarter-hour) episode, which is where the Q comes from. Most episodes were an hour long. Half-hour episodes had an H after the episode number.
Actualy, before I started watching 911, I never realy knew of Shatner's work on Trek, or anything else. So I only know Shatner from 911, and I guess 911 is a dramatic show needing a dramatic acting host.
"EMT Husband Save" and "Freon Freak" take up about 30 minutes with commercials, and "University Pipe Bomb" is only about 10 minutes, so they would probably need a fourth segment to beef it up to an hour.
You know I can't find anything on this outside of this episode. You'd think they'd have something on their website- it's not everyday a bomb goes off at your school- or you're featured on rescue 911 (two things you can always hope to avoid!!)
You would think they would do that. However, almost everyone was asleep, so most of the people in the building were behind cover. Alerting everyone would cause a panic and losing control of the situation.
countrymx4171 They did not put in the Patriot Act until after 1996. by that time Al Qaeda blew up the US Embassy and World Trade Center and McVeigh and Nichols blew up Oklahoma City and Unabomber blew up all the buildings in America. today under Article 4 of the Patriot Act if you make a bomb it is a one way ticket to Florence or in other words life in prison without parole or a one-way ticket to the death chamber. you don't go making bombs it is illegal and it could put you in prison for the rest of your life.
I still think it's weird that there ever was a 1 segment eppie of 911. And being that it was on very late on a school night for kids, many probably missed it. Was this segment ever previewed before it originaly ran, or was it a inpromptu thing?? I was so used to watching 911 on tuesdays at 8:00, if this was aired on a regular hr. ep, I would not have missed it.
Shouldn't be called crazy if that car blew up could of killed someone or gone through a window of the building and killed someone or it could of caught fire in that building don't get why people should call him crazy he did what he had to do to risk his life to save others
theone2225 after 1996 they would have gotten life in prison without parole or the death penalty. bomb-making is banned under Article 4 of the Patriot Act if you build a bomb it is a one way ticket to Florence.
The fact that that guy acted like it was no big deal and straight face lied right after watching it go off scares me. This is sadistic. There is something wrong with him / both of them. I don't think they did anything like this but I hope they were psychologically evaluated and treated. I mean this is some psychopath stuff. Really, to have no reaction even after getting caught and watching it happen and watching the panic. They obviously didn't care about others in the situation but they sounded like they didn't even show emotion after knowing they were in major trouble. I hope they never did anything else but I would not be shocked if they did more screwed up stuff. Maybe they waited a long time before doing something and maybe they did stuff and no one found out but that happens all the time in the world of psychopaths. If we knew some of the things that people with these kind of problems did all the time that no one knew about people would be scared all the time.
Couldn't they have aired this segment on the next weeks episode to air on CBS? Many 911 kid fans who tuned in to watch 911 ever tuesday would have missed this segemnt because it was on so late past a usual bed time for a school night. And it was on a Wednesday night instead of the usual Tuesday.
A weird question but why did he say he plucked out his first grey hair at the end?? His comment does not have to do with the segment, but just seems like a random comment he made.
I think there were rare 5 segment episodes too. WHY were there 5 segment episodes to begin with?? What would a 5 segment episode be called because they were rarely such things? I am guessing some eps had shorter segments than usual--
Know what I never understood those bomb squad guys in those heavy suits and helmets why don't they carry those bombs with a real long pair of like grabbers or tongs so if it goes off they won't loose their hands? Maybe even put in it a small armour box and drag it out on a wagon?
I wonder why it wasn't part of a 30-minute show or a hour show on CBS. If the Family Channel aired this, they could have put it in along with two episodes that aired in a 30-minute episode or air two or three episodes from the previous two seasons.
Know what I could never figure out when those bomb guys run out with those bombs why don't they grad and hold it with some long tongs so if it gose off they might save they're hands?
Cool next time do it in an empty field to "test" but yeah the timer was on for way too long you need enough time to get away but enough time so no one can remove it if you do it again so it properly.......
