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The High School Reunion Bomber
WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: Flossy666
A 39-year-old man in Lakeland was arrested early Thursday after police said he threatened "to make Virginia Tech look like a birthday party" at his high school reunion and hundreds of homemade explosives were found at his home.
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From: gargoyle1
Date: 4-Oct-2007 17:19
He must've really been teased and picked on in school alot. Here's a tip buddy, you don't have to actually go and see those people if you don't like them. Dumbass. Shove his bombs up his ass and set them off. Just for shits and giggles
From: brainspore [Brainspore]
Date: 4-Oct-2007 17:20
How screwed up do you have to be to still care about your high school experience when you're nearly forty? This reminds me of those stupid daytime talk shows where people get makeovers and confront the people who used to make fun of them 15 years ago, only to find out that the bullies don't even remember them.
From: elfboy
[blinky7]
Date: 4-Oct-2007 17:48
WHAT a loser. Harboring post-high-school hatred for decades, building bombs, etc. Also, the photo does nothing to help his case. Goofy fuck. On the other hand, I attended my 20th H.S. reunion, it was a total vindaction-fest for me. All the "popular" kids were either miserably married, or alcoholic, or both. The jocks that made my teen years hell were all fat, or bald. "Most Likely to Succeed" was in prison. For rape. Khan said it best."Revenge is a dish best served cold."
From: omagoch [Bryan]
Date: 4-Oct-2007 17:50
I'm so sdrunk right now... Bombs are fun, but being a pussy for high school? high school blows@ we all know it. pussy
From: flossy666
[Flossy]
Date: 4-Oct-2007 17:56
For me the best part of the reunion is seeing the jocks bald, fat, and pulling up in old pickup trucks, the cheerleaders drunk & sloppy with bad skin, & the realization that they all still live in our shitty hometown, and are, on average, twice divorced. Of course, my high school experience wasn't bad, either. I probably wouldn't have revenge fantasies even if I didn't turn out so fabulous...lol.
From: himmlerismyhero [Brad]
Date: 4-Oct-2007 18:05
I bet he was tormented while in high school.
From: dogsbody [nobody]
Date: 4-Oct-2007 18:15
Who in the name of all that is holy lit his fuse. I'd go to my high school reunion but the building was demolished two decades ago. Sorry about that.
From: noracejusthuman
[Alien From Earth]
Date: 4-Oct-2007 18:44
He wanted to be left alone...that's why you don't send out psycho emails, sure to freak people (and cops) out...Hmmmmm. Do we really want some attention here?..trying out for MOST likely to Be a Spree Killer at the reunion?
From: 69rotten69 [oh yeah]
Date: 4-Oct-2007 19:01
From: himmlerismyhero [Brad] Date: 4-Oct-2007 18:05 I bet he was tormented while in high school. ++++ If high school had that effect, I wonder what prison is going to do.
From: fescue
Date: 4-Oct-2007 19:11
The sheriff's office said Vaughn admitted to sending the e-mail and said he, "Hated all of his classmates and just wanted to be left alone." ****************** Point of order: if he just wanted to be left alone, why did he register with Classmates.com? He wouldn't have gotten an e-mail if he hadn't, of his own free will, registered with the site. That being said, before my 10-year reunion, I'd run into a friend from high school and he said I guy we'd both hung out with then, "Bob" (large and not attractive, basically nice but bitter from being picked on), was still pissed about school and being picked on and wanted to go to the reunion to beat the living snot out of "Larry" (an asshole, but kind of cute with nice legs--like Bush but shorter). My friend kept telling him it was 10 years ago and he should move on. "Bob" didn't show but, at the reunion, I overheard a couple of people say they'd been wondering if he was going to show up with a machine gun or something. Our 20th is next year, I'm debating putting together a betting pool over whether "Bob" will show up and start something.
From: mencken
Date: 4-Oct-2007 19:28
Get over it, guy. It's been 20 fucking years. Jesus H....
From: ohhellno
[steve-vo]
Date: 4-Oct-2007 20:14
Never been to a reunion and dont really care either.I only went to school because it was either that, or my dad beating the shit out of me. But as far as the guys goes,He must of been turned down by the girls for one prom too many.
From: pontiuspilatus
[Pontius Phallus Pilatius]
Date: 4-Oct-2007 20:18
From: ohhellno [steve-vo] Date: 4-Oct-2007 20:14 Never been to a reunion and dont really care either.I only went to school because it was either that, or my dad beating the shit out of me. But as far as the guys goes,He must of been turned down by the girls for one prom too many. ---------- I wish your dad had beaten harder. Must of been. Must of been? Please.
From: assholius
[ikthool]
Date: 4-Oct-2007 20:29
I had a great time in highschool, but for some reason I just always have better things to do than go to the reunion. And if I was going to blow someone up, the closest thing to a warning I might give them is detonating the bomb at their feet instead of their head.
From: garmonbozia
Date: 4-Oct-2007 20:33
 If he felt he _must_ respond at all, why not just a simple "Fuck off!" No need for all that psycho shit. Such a waste of angry, hateful energy. Better spent trying to spare someone else the same shit. I still like the idea of sending all the geeks for martial arts training instead of PE. If they can just kick some ass right then and there, it won't fester and build up for years afterward.
From: fescue
Date: 4-Oct-2007 20:35
From: noracejusthuman [Alien From Earth] Date: 4-Oct-2007 19:27 uhh.. fecue?..thought about staying home that night?..what the hell, right?.. ****************** Nah, I figure this is Texas so, if he does show up with a gun, there'll be someone there who'll shoot him and then we can get back to catching up and getting drunk. Besides, I was one of the people who was nice to him and was part of his lunch clique in school so I'm hoping that will get me non-target points. Plus, after 20 years, I want to see what everyone looks like. The ones I'm still in contact with have taken care of themselves and are aging well. The others, I'm curious about--especially my old crushes. That's worth checking over my shoulder periodically for people with wounded inner children.
From: darkheart
Date: 4-Oct-2007 20:42
"When officers traveled to his home they found a live M-80 explosive and then hundreds of homemade destructive devices and about 700 additional explosive devices under construction." I get the feeling the 'bombs' were fireworks.
From: selfcleaning [buttocks]
Date: 4-Oct-2007 20:49
The sheriff's office said Vaughn admitted to sending the e-mail and said he, "Hated all of his classmates and just wanted to be left alone." - Then just don't go. I never do. Let him rot in jail for a few years. This guy is pure whacko.
From: prestonsgirl [Melanie]
Date: 4-Oct-2007 21:11
HAHA! Pointdexter is getting back at all those middle-age bullies who gave him wedgies in High School! Seriously though...in 1991, I went to my ten year(Class of 1981)High School reunion. The first person I saw was this guy named Alan. He was the smallest guy in my graduating class...and also the smartest. Poor Alan was picked on all the time by the stoners and the popular kids...he went into the Marines after High School and made a career of it. Here he was at the reunion all decked out in his uniform with all the medals he earned(He fought in the Gulf War)...he apparently gotten taller after High School and QUITE handsome! I was so happy for him I could have cried, he had such a hard time in school...guess who I did NOT see at the reunion...yep...all the kids who picked on Alan...they probably couldn't afford tickets, were dead or in jail or maybe the manager at McDonalds wouldn't let them have the day off!
From: noracejusthuman
[Alien From Earth]
Date: 4-Oct-2007 21:20
In the year 2 0 0 1, at our next reunion..we all lit matches in the darkened ballroom. 21 people burned their fingers...I can see now and forever Sammy the match , as he smiled and shed a tear, Looking up from the burning fires of Hell. lucky bastard.
From: find [the pussy]
Date: 4-Oct-2007 21:21
I left school at age 14 because of all the crap. If I had stayed, I would have killed a certain teacher. 45 years later I am very rich and I still hate her. If I had the knowledge then, I would have blown the cunt apart. BTW I am an explosives consultant today.
From: mljohns00 [Radical Conservative]
Date: 4-Oct-2007 21:36
In this day of Federally funded "Anti-Terrorism" boondoggles, an M-80 changes from a firecracker to a "live M-80 explosive". Those "700 additional explosive devices under construction" are probably strings of firecrackers, too. Happy 4th of July.
From: evildave [Evil Dave]
Date: 4-Oct-2007 21:39
I missed my 5, 10 and 20 year reunions. Always busy with something else when it came up, and little or no interest to begin with. I don't even remember anybody from high school, or middle school, or grade school. I'm bad enough with names I'd never come up with most of them even if I recognized a 40 year old version of those kids. By the time a 30 year or 40 year reunion comes around, I suppose more of them will be dead of their own accord, as if I knew any of them were alive now. *** Now for the evil tip of the day! If you plan on doing something unspeakably violent, DO NOT TELL ANYONE! I mean, for cryin' out loud, what are these psycho idiots thinking, bragging about how they'll kill specific bunches of people, at specific places, at specific times? This is how almost every one of the failures gets caught. If this guy just kept his mouth shut and showed up at the reunion with a big bag of bombs over his shoulder, nobody would ever have had the chance to say 'peep' about it, and we'd have gotten a nice, rotten news story about a mass killing spree and suicide. Instead, we get a story about how the 'system' of people spying on each other and tattling to police at the drop of a pin 'works'. All hail Big Brother! This anonymous loser will go to prison for 400 years for all those counts of 'possessing a destructive device' instead of getting his big batch of infamy.
From: aulduron
[Aulduron]
Date: 4-Oct-2007 21:46
He may not have been planning to bomb them. They only mentioned finding M-80s and "homemade destruction devices" he had hundreds completed and was building 700 more. I doubt he was going to use a thousand bombs to blow the place up, when one or two bigger bombs would do the job. I bet he's just a drunken bigmouth who makes fireworks, or maybe just bullets, at home.
From: dementia66 [UberVandal]
Date: 4-Oct-2007 22:03
Have the Muslims gotten over the Crusades yet? WWII has been over for 62 years, have the Jews "gotten over it"? Vietnam has been over since 1975, have those vets "gotten over it"? Have we gotten over 9/11 yet? Do you think the vets returning from Gulf War Part II "With a Vengeance" AKA operation ongoing occupation will "get over it" anytime soon? Of course, the above go far, far beyond any crap one would endure in school; however, unless it happened to you, it is always easy to say "get over it". In regards to big brother cracking down on "explosives" such as M-80's, buying reloading equipment or even spent brass is no longer permitted on eBay.
From: doesshe
[ever shut up, that DS?]
Date: 4-Oct-2007 23:58
I didn't go to my 10-year HS reunion a few years back. I loathe situations like reunions where you have the same conversation 50 fucking times with 50 people about your life since you'd seen them last (reunions, weddings, wakes...etc). One of my good friends from HS went, so I gave her a few of my business cards with my e-mail addressed scrawled on it to give to a some people I'd actually like to hear from again. That sufficed.
From: rotteneggs13
[a bakers dozen]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 00:33
<<Timothy Joseph Vaughn>> That name certainly sounds like the name of a mass murderer. Perhaps he wanted to surprise his class-mates with a 'bombe' I never went to any of my high school reunions. What is the purpose of seeing people you didn't like then and probably won't like now? The friends that I have from high school I keep in touch with in them.
From: fartnozzle
[Hiznibs]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 00:34
If this raisin sack wanted revenge he should have done it at his senior prom twenty years before...He'd be getting out of prison right about now... ...You gotta love the thinking of some cops: if C-4 explosive is bad, M-80 must be 20 times worse! I can almost hear the gears turning as he preps for the press conference!
From: kyotay2001
[We all have our bears to cross]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 01:11
I was gonna make a most likely to implode joke but , Ya'll covered that ground. Then I was gonna say something about how I am aging and faring better than my H.S. peers (which is gratifying) but you all beat me to that too. Soooo.. All I've got to say is.. You motherfuckers are really showing your age.
From: doesshe
[ever shut up, that DS?]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 01:12
PPP, yeah, you are quite the asshole. I hope you are stoned at your next high school reunion...and not stoned in the "fun way". If you don't attend it, I pray a lynch mob of your former classmates goes to your house, you get dragged out into the street, and get stoned (via rocks) in front of all your neighbors.
From: pontiuspilatus
[Pontius Phallus Pilatius]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 01:57
From: doesshe [ever shut up, that DS?] Date: 5-Oct-2007 01:12 PPP, yeah, you are quite the asshole. I hope you are stoned at your next high school reunion...and not stoned in the "fun way". If you don't attend it, I pray a lynch mob of your former classmates goes to your house, you get dragged out into the street, and get stoned (via rocks) in front of all your neighbors. ----------------- As if I went to a school reunion, hehehe. And regarding the lynch mob, most of them are fat and/or dead already. DS, you're upset because I love cranky? Who in return loves DD? Who himself loves, errr, Pamela Anderson? Life is a bitch, innit.
From: pontiuspilatus
[Pontius Phallus Pilatius]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 02:36
DS, I won't be in a wheelchair anytime soon. I survived a few crashes that an elephant would have had trouble to get out of. One day, in a crash, I must have bled 2 liters, there was blood everywhere. So don't count on me getting weak in the near future.
From: ciaochowbella [I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 03:54
None of my friends were in my graduating class. They were all either a year older or a year younger. I go to those reunions. As for my own class reunion, I kindly informed the class secretary that if she EVER sent me an invitation, I'd come to her house, fuck her husband, shit in the kitchen and overflow all the toilets. She has wisely never sent me an invitation.
From: ladyjanegrey
Date: 5-Oct-2007 05:45
My high school has conveniently "lost" me. I went on classmates.com for a lark and registered under an assumed name just to see what was up. There are people from my class on there blathering about this teacher, that class, this part of the school, etc. I can't remember half this shit. Was this the most important time in their lives? That they are reminscing about it 27 years later online, not at a reuion, but seemingly daily? That is effing pathetic. Ladyamythest: It's my birthday, and you made my day with that Goofy Fuck thing! A gin and tonic raised to you, my fine woman!
From: ciaochowbella [I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 06:14
PPP, it's your syphilis. It affects your brain and sometimes even the most reasonable things seem irrational. Seems it's already too late to save you from yourself.
From: garmonbozia
Date: 5-Oct-2007 06:37
Once back in school, I turned the class "vice president" down for a date... smashed her ego to bits and humiliated her in front of all her popular friends. She kept coming back, no doubt hoping I'd change my mind and let her save face. I'd just reject her again. I caught all kinds of hell for it, but it was worth it. Now I wish I'd have found the most uncool geek chick in the class, asked her out, and swayed with her past Miss Popular as many times as possible during the homecoming dance. That's the only thing that could have made that little ego-flush any better. (Hindsight is always 20/20.)
From: four20nprogress
[Ryan]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 07:09
But really come on. Who hasn't dreamed of spraying homemade napalm over all those hundreds of shitheads you had to deal with in HS. Napalm = Favorite gene pool cleansing tool
From: crnkybitch
[cranky bitch]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 07:18
DS, you're upset because I love cranky? Who in return loves DD? +++ DD?? If you love me Pontius at least try to remember that I hate everyone* except dickhead, he's wonderful.
From: underpantism [Skippy Duffin]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 08:09
You see you all are lucky in that most of you probably went to mixed schools, rather than all boys like me. So there is pretty much no reason for me to want to go to a school reunion. $80 to sit with people I sat with for years (for free) and had to deal with their farts and sweaty unwashed body smells. Nice guys mostly, but I think I'll leave those memories in the past where they belong.
From: vomit
[Vomit]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 08:13
Personally much as I hate most of my former classmates I hate my teachers even more Although as the worst of them are currently burning in hell I dont feel the need to show up at the reunion with explosives. Wish I could say the same for a certain former employer though.
From: jacobins [alex]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 08:53
Jesus Christ, you're 39, high school is over, get a fucking life.
From: teratomarty
[Self-made man]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 10:23
I'm younger than this guy, and my memory of high school has already faded, as does a dream caused by a bad burrito once I've taken the morning dump. Seriously, man, find a hobby. A *different* hobby.
From: aulduron
[Aulduron]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 12:05
I didn't belong to any graduating class, but that doesn't stop people I never knew from spamming me with reunion invites. I might laugh if the building they gathered in exploded, but I certainly wouldn't do it myself.
From: trixiekitsch [trixie]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 12:06
This is what happens to some people who can never fit in in high school. Poor man, at least now he'll have a real peer group: prison buddies.
From: rotteneggs13
[a bakers dozen]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 12:55
The Unabomber wanna-be was having thoughts incendiary. Class reunions as many have stated are lame. You don't have company reunions so why have school reunions. Who really cares if Betty Jane the slut has 3 kids and Bob the wanker is in prison doing life. (Although that would make for some interesting conversation) TRUE STORY: My dad's best friend in high-school, Rob Marshall, killed his wife. My dad used to double-date with him. Joe McGinniss wrote a book about the story: Blind Faith. Eggcellent read if your into the true crime genre. I bet there was a lot gossip about him at his reunion while he sits in prison.  When-ever my dad would spout off about my friends being space-cadet stoners, I always would say at least they didn't murder anyone. Yet.
From: useless2society [Useless II Society]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 14:17
God I love ad bots. This ad was on the same page as the article: 
From: useless2society [Useless II Society]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 14:30
On a lighter note, the guy should really not have announced his intentions first. If I was in his shoes I would have sneaked into the place the night before and laced the place with explosives and a good timing device (because the LAST thing you need is the bomb going off at the wrong moment - remember Von Stauffenberg). If I couldn't do that I wouldn't do anything. Except maybe spread rumours of the class president being a child molester. God I'm evil! When it comes to good terrorism (something kids don't appreciate nowadays) either do it right or don't do it at all. And don't ever ever ever make an empty threat. I hated my school too and always had terror fantasies. The bastards somehow got hold of my current address a few years back and sent me a letter asking me to verify my contact information. So I grabbed a porno mag (not mine honest) found some porno video company and gave their Hollywood Boulevard address as my home address. Never got another invite since. I'll bet they're still getting catalogs.
From: sp00k
Date: 5-Oct-2007 14:55
I guess spiking the punch just isn't good enough for some people anymore
From: 69rotten69 [oh yeah]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 15:32
I was going to go to my last reunion just to show that one person that she really did make a mistake by dating someone else while I was away at college. But, I ran across a picture of her in the local newspaper and she has grown from a cute little 120 lb girl I remembered to a 300 lb behemoth with tits that would not easily fit into a bushel basket....no need to go to the reunion - I'm pefectly satisifed with the outcome. Come to think of it, I should have gone just to laugh at the f'wad that got her (same one she messed with while I was gone). It took 25 years, but I'm now happy.
From: huwatng [Hue]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 15:58
I made a mint in real estate, bought the old school, tore it down and put up condos. Fuck 'em.
From: static
[arking quotes]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 20:29
69rotten69 [oh yeah] ... Saw I lady at my 20th that was so homely as a teen, but now could pose for Playboy. I was always nice to her, not like everyone else that made jokes, mean stuff, just nice. She used to wear loose fitting thrift store reject clothing. She was wearing the little black dress and was freaking hot. Hair that was short, straight was long and silky. Though her smile in school wasn't much, probably because she had nothing to smile about, now it's huge, glowing, perfect. Yea, I got her number.. Btw.. I have a date with her tomorrow night. Wish me luck.
From: sawgunner [Doug]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 21:54
High school? Hell, I'm still pissed about the people who jacked with me at pre-school. They pushed me off the swing, ratted me out to the teacher when I talked in line, and so on. My every waking hour is spent dreaming of the ways I will get my revenge. Four decades doesn't make one forget about the little bastard that cut in front of me to go down the slide.
From: lexdysic [John Soames]
Date: 5-Oct-2007 22:41
M-80's? Yea, that's what the world has come to. Fucking anyone from San Diego County that is older than 40 remembers that those and other cool fire works could be brought back from Hexico back in the day, that was until dumb fucks started blowing off their hands with them. Black Cat, Cherry Bombs, you young fucks don't know what you've missed. As far as Classless Mates, yea, it was once a good thought to look up some old school buddies, but get to the reunions, and surely some snoby ass saggy titted mole infested fat old bitch that isn't even in the year book will be the one generating the who's who of your class. Fuck them. Estes Model Rocket engines? Back in the early seventies you had to get a permit to receive explosives just to buy them. Now, you can pick them up at your local Wal-Fart. The world is a fucked up place, and I'll be glad when I'm fucking dead. Sorry though, I can't commit a sin, so please bear with me for a few more decades. Besides, the guy lives in Flordia, give him a break. What a shit hole.
From: dennisisevil
[Dennis]
Date: 6-Oct-2007 00:04
O.K. a memo to all you armchair Osama Bin Ladens, Stop advertising your plans. Myspace and other such sites has to be the best thing to happen to law enforcement since Dunkin Donuts put in a drive thru.
From: huwatng [Hue]
Date: 6-Oct-2007 03:08
As you go to your home by the ocean May you never forget those sweet hours That we spent in the Red River Valley And the love we exchanged mid the flowers
From: mgr878 [matt]
Date: 6-Oct-2007 06:06
A live M-80. Oh boy. Let's see, I think my friends and I lit off about a thousand of those things when we were kids. And we still have all of our fingers. If the police have to lead off with an M-80, then I think those other "hundreds of homemade destructive devices" were no more than homemade firecrackers. The lying cops always hype up this type of BS. They are such a bunch of drama queens and you can't believe a fucking thing they say. In a few months these heros will be rewarding themselves with awards ceremonies, banquets, and medals for bravery.
From: ciaochowbella [I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened]
Date: 6-Oct-2007 07:24
Static, is it the picture that is unclear? This should help. 
From: 69rotten69 [oh yeah]
Date: 6-Oct-2007 12:46
Eveyone should go to their high school reunions just to prove to yourself that you ARE better than those assholes at the popular table - just like your mama told you. There is nothing more refreshing to see a bald, fat jock or a high school beauty queen with an obvious xanax addiction. The best revenge is living well - oh, and rubbing that fact in the faces of your past enemies. Funny how the skinny little punks that had their noses in a book all the time are the ones that the jocks are now crawling to for a job.
From: pussypounder [deeppenetrator]
Date: 6-Oct-2007 15:09
I have yet to go to any of my High School Reunions. However, I tend to wish everyone from my old school the best be them pricks or saints. I teach High School now and everyday reminds me that almost everyone there is a dumb ass. I have ran into some of the old bullies, some of them are the same, some of them have actually become decent people. One of my old bullies apologized to me and we became good friends. I am always amazed at people who dwell on vengeance for stuff that happened to them at High School and refuse to give anyone a second chance.
From: snatchvondrippy [snatch]
Date: 6-Oct-2007 15:33
look for the bear necessities the simple bear necessities forget about your worry and your strife i mean the bear necessities that's why a bear can rest at ease with just the simple bear necessities of life now-when you pick a paw paw or a prickly pear- don't prick the wrong paw-next time beware don't pick a prickly pear with a paw when you see a pear, try and use the claw-but you don't need to use the claw when you pick a pear from the big paw paw
Updated: 11-Oct-2007 14:38
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