Staff and parents at a middle school in the Boise suburb of Meridian, Idaho, pretty much lost their shit when a student carrying a folding "military style" short-handled shovel was mistaken for a maniac roaming the halls of the school with an axe on Thursday. The school went into lockdown while police searched the school for some two hours. Eight other schools in the Meridian district also locked their doors before police determined that the kid had an antique shovel that he had brought to school as part of a project for a history class. Despite the lockdown being a false alarm, parents who had gathered to wait at a nearby church were allowed to take their kids home for the rest of the day if they wished to. School officials quickly reclassified the school's security status from "Freaking Right The Fuck Out Over Nothing" to "Defensively Covering Embarassment With Reassurances That We Were Acting With An Excess Of Caution For The Children."
Well, hell. I am at work and can't disable the safety mode to access relevant clip, but Monty Python's meaning of Life begs to differ.
My son was once SUSPENDED at age 8 or whatever for bringing what was in actuality a Niagara Falls souvenir nail file he liked to call a knife to school. Seriously.
Oh sure....it's just a shovel. It's no big thing, nothing to be afraid of. Hey let's go plant some flowers...how about poppies...in FLANDERS!
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Well, hell. I am at work and can&#039;t disable the safety mode to access relevant clip, but Monty Python&#039;s meaning of Life begs to differ.
My son was once SUSPENDED at age 8 or whatever for bringing what was in actuality a Niagara Falls souvenir nail file he liked to call a knife to school. Seriously.
And here I thought it was Greek Yogourt.
a double-bladed axe? Was his name Gimli and did he have his beard tucked into his belt?
Earthquake alert??!!??
Oh sure....it&#039;s just a shovel. It&#039;s no big thing, nothing to be afraid of. Hey let&#039;s go plant some flowers...how about poppies...in FLANDERS!
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Wait until one of the students brings a didgeridoo to a music lesson.