Allieu Shaw, a student of Frostburg State University in western Maryland, has been charged with two counts of disrupting a school operation after threatening to shoot up his school during (what we can only assume was) a very heated match of Call of Duty 4 over Xbox Live. After making the threats, complete with detailed instructions as to how he was going to carry out the attack, one of his teammates contacted the Frostburg police department, who prompted an immediate lock-down of all schools in the Frostburg area. If convicted, Shaw could face a one year jail sentence or a $5,000 fine.One neat thing about this otherwise alarming story: The student who contacted the Frostburg police does not attend FSU -- in fact, he lives in Oregon, nearly 2,500 miles away from the school. It's refreshing to know there are complete strangers out there who are capable of putting down the controller for a few minutes to make a responsible, cautionary phone call -- regardless of the sincerity of Shaw's threats.
