![]() ![]() He seemed to be acting calmly and rationally right up until the moment he went in the other room. Indeed, the prank was conceived in just that spirit of youthful exuberance, not out of any sense of malice. ![]() He took the gun and shot himself through the heart, and the hospital was unable to revive him.įrom all reports, Jacob was usually exuberant, happy, and cheerful. They were in the middle of explaining to his parents how they could bail him out when Jacob slipped into the room next door where his father kept a. ![]() So back they went at 1 a.m.īy John’s account, the police made it clear that they knew it was just a joke, but they had to go “by the book” and arrest Jacob for it. They declared the school closed the next day so they could call in the bomb-sniffing dogs-and they demanded the police arrest Jacob. The text then became an official “threat” and they had to take action. Unfortunately, in the meantime, someone had passed the text on to the authorities at the school. Jacob was scolded sternly by both the police and his father, and then they left, telling John, “OK, he’s all yours for whatever punishment you think is right.” and investigated, talked to the prank victim over the phone, and determined that it was, in fact, just a prank and not a serious threat. Soon after he did that, however, the prank victim became aware who was actually behind the message and quickly texted Jacob back that he knew it was just a joke, and to show the police the messages saying so in the hope that he wouldn’t get into any trouble. So he did take it seriously, and informed the police. Would I have taken it seriously if it ended up anonymously on my phone? I don’t know.) But it didn’t seem that way to the student, who didn’t have Jacob’s cell phone number in his contacts and so didn’t get caller ID to tell him where the message came from. ![]() (Though, then again, I am probably biased by the situation. Looking at the message in the cold light of day, it seems ludicrously over the top, a juvenile exercise in high-schooler purple prose that no one ought to take seriously. And that reason, is to warn you of a horrible disaster that will happen in your Ashland high school around 2:35 PM. For anyone.īut I was put here for a reason. And let me tell you – life should not be this way. I have been under the radar of the United States Government for many, many long years. I have been a shady stranger to most people shifting around locations and towns – hitch hiking when necessary. A warning that, if heeded, could save your life… “You do not realize how long I’ve been hunting you, (REDACTED) You do not know me, but I know you. Here it is ( source: Boone County Journal): So Jacob wrote a spooky message and texted it to their pranking victim. What happened, as I understand it from a letter from Jacob’s father, my uncle John Meadows, is this: On the evening of Monday, September 9th, too keyed up to go to sleep, Jacob was chatting by cell phone text with a high school friend, and inspired perhaps by all the to-do about the September 11th anniversary on the horizon, the two of them decided to prank a third friend, another high school student. A week ago tonight, my 17-year-old cousin Jacob Meadows, a high school student in Ashland, Missouri, died by his own hand as the end result of an unfortunate chain of circumstances that were touched off by an ill-conceived cell phone text message. ![]()
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