Four high school students in New Jersey have found themselves in custody and charged with creating a false alarm after discussing plans on Facebook to blow up their school by igniting the gas line and making terroristic threats and creating conspiracy.

Taking from Mashable.com

NBC reports it all began at Belleville High School after an unnamed student found a Facebook page on which two seniors and two juniors were hashing out a plan to destroy the school. The facility was evacuated, and a bomb squad searched both the high school and the students’ homes. Their efforts revealed no evidence, so it’s unclear whether the threat was a prank or a legitimate plot to reap destruction.

Regardless, the teens are currently being held at the Essex County, New Jersey, Juvenile Detention Center.

Naturally, a smattering of folks have already launched into dissecting the follies of youth in the comments section of this story, but one comment from an anonymous poster strikes a chord:

“Why are kids so incredibly stupid? My friend’s son’s FB friend just posted a similar comment followed by ‘jkjkjk lolol haha’ on her son’s page. This generation of texting, sexting, tech-savvy-with-no-common-sense morons may well be the dumbest yet.”

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