A cheerleader threatens to blow up a nuclear reactor if her team loses
A student at the University of Utah faced the repercussions of what she said was a "passing joke", after she posted on a popular app called "Yak Yak" that she would blow up a nuclear reactor located on her campus if her college football team did not win its game against San Diego State University. this week.
"If we don't win today, I'm going to blow up the nuclear reactor on campus," the girl, who appears to be obsessed with cheering for a local soccer team, wrote on the app, which is especially popular among young people.
The app aims to allow users to post anonymously in a forum that connects people via geolocation, but the police, who apparently received a tip about this, were able to track the threat statement and reach a 21-year-old student who admitted writing the comment, to be arrested later He placed her provisionally in Salt Lake County Jail on charges of making terrorist threats.
The student denied the seriousness of the threat, and said, according to what was reported by the "Andy 100" website, that the purpose of the comment was to joke.
But the University of Utah said in a statement that it has a "zero tolerance policy for these types of threats."
The University of Utah owns a nuclear reactor in the Merrill Engineering Building, and the student knew the reactor site because she was studying in the building, police later said.
To avoid panic, University of Utah Police Chief Jason Hinojosa emphasized in a statement that the nuclear reactor was "secured" and that "police have unique protocols to manage any breach of the facility."
The incident comes just one month after another student at the University of Utah made a bomb threat via the same app.
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