NORWICH – A 17-year-old high school student charged with making a terrorist threat appeared in Chenango County Court on Monday and requested the charges against him be dropped in the interest of justice.

Chad Frink, 17, of Otselic, was charged with making a terrorist threat, a class D felony, after allegedly creating and posting a video on snapchat.

In the brief video, that was only a few seconds long, the caption appears asking, “Are you going to shoot up the school?” After the question appears it is answered with another caption, “Yeah dude.”

In court Frink’s attorney argued the post was not a threat.

“In this particular case, Mr. Frink did not make any threat,” said defense attorney, J. Kevin Daley.

According to Daley, Frink was posting a conversation he had with another student; with Frink asking the question, and the other student responding with, “Yeah dude.”