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Whitman Student Arrested For Making Threat On Facebook To Blow Up School

WHITMAN (CBS) - A 16-year-old student at a Whitman high school has been arrested for a Facebook threat to blow up the school.

The Patriot Ledger said the girl admitted to police that she posted this threat:

"Umm ... deffff bombing the school. In newbedford (expletive) killing myselfff," the teen posted to her Facebook page.

The student, who attends Compass Alternative High School, claimed she didn't mean anything by it. She was arrested on Friday.

Police said that Facebook is now replacing bathroom walls as a place for teenagers to make threats, real or otherwise.

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