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Teen Girls Target Cruise, Bunny
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MOCKED FOR DEATH The Energizer Bunny, Cruise (inset)
Tom Cruise, Oprah Winfrey, and The Engergizer Bunny can breath a sigh of relief. The talk show host, the movie star, and the battery company mascot—along with several hundred teachers and students at Sequatchie County High School in Dunlap, Tennessee—found themselves on the receiving end of a totally plausible, utterly imminent threat by six high school girls who are now being charged with conspiring to commit homicide.

According to AP, the would-be assassins posted the names of 300 real and fictional individuals on MySpace, whom they claimed they wanted to "kill."

While the offending page has been removed, Dunlap Police Chief Clint Huth outlined the seriousness of the situation: "In general terms, it was like, 'Let's kill these people' ... I am not saying we thwarted a shooting incident or an act of violence ... On the other hand, had this gone unchecked, down the road it could have grown into something a whole lot more serious than a list of names."

The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports that officials at Sequatchie County High School went on lock-down after learning about the "hit list" Wednesday. (Though Chattanooga's News Channel 9 contradicts that.) Predictably, the Free Press reports, the town is now "reeling."

The alleged conspirators, ages 14 and 15, have been sent to a juvenile facility as their court dates (and deportation to Guantánamo) are set. Calls to the Energizer Bunny went unreturned.

By Matt Haber   01/26/07 2:32 PM
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