Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), April 19th, 2007
Byline: Chao Xiong; Staff Writer; Charley Bruce
University of Minnesota sophomore Joe Plocher's gut told him that the note at the bottom of a bathroom sink Wednesday was a fake. Typed in capital letters and poorly punctuated, it threatened the bombing of at least five university buildings by 10 that night.
In the aftermath of the nation's deadliest school shooting at Virginia Tech, leaving 33 dead on Monday, he couldn't ignore it. So minutes before his 12:20 p.m., four-hour organic-chemistry lab, he snapped a photo of the note in a second-floor men's restroom in Smith Hall with his cell ph...
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