Hardly just a "prank". I taught in Fayetteville for 20 years. When we had a bomb threat, the entire school was evacuated. Students and teachers had to stand outside, rain, cold etc it didn't matter, for an hour to two hours.

If it was during lunch, much food had to be thrown away and kids had to be served again. Two or three fire trucks plus support vehicles were sent to the school. Several additional police officers had to be sent along with a bomb sniffing dog to search the school. The school system person in charge of security also had to come to the school. A few times there were bomb threats at two or more schools at the same time. On those days we would stand outside even longer, in several cases over two and a half hours while all these emergency personnel were pulled from their other jobs. Twice we had students collapse from the heat after standing out in the sun for two hours in 90+ degree heat.

Long term suspension and felony charges are appropriate.

Hey well at least they didn't have to take that killer math test.

dumb thing to do but I guess they thought it was cool, look like 2 reasonably intelligent kids--saying a lot these days

See the pics in these stories. They look like similar. I can't imagine the school would release photos to the media? maybe? See stories: http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/2423442/ http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/2429548/

-Talking about the smiling "mug shot". Why did you put mug shot in side of " "? Just curious.