Posted on 04/28/2005 5:05:20 PM PDT by 2Am4Sure
It wasn’t a gun that caused police to lock down Marshall Junior High School in Clovis. It was a burrito.
Police locked the school down after a citizen saw a student walking into school with a long, skinny object wrapped in a white cloth. He thought it was a gun and called police.
Officers searched for the student while the school was on lockdown. But the student came forward first, admitting he had what they were looking for – a two-and-a-half-foot-long burrito.
The student had taken the burrito, wrapped in foil and a white cloth, to present in a culinary career class. It was loaded – with meat and beans.
Police called the incident a good exercise for all of the officers who responded to the school.
One observer joked that with the right combination of ingredients, the burrito could have been a deadly weapon.
Talk about lack of effort for one's schoolwork.
Run away...run away...its a burrito..OMG!
Well I hope they expelled the little jerk. How dare he bring anything to school that might be construed as a gun! They do have a zero tolerance policy, don't they?
I understand the concern. My husband and burritos are a deadly combination.
Hey, in the proper, er, hands, a burrito can be a deadly weapon!
make a run for the border.
is that a chulupa in your pocket or are you just robbing me?
or, Is that a burrito in your pocket or are you happy to see me?
Potentially annoying in the extreme. Deadly, I don't think so. I will leave it to someone else to come up with the "silent-but-deadly" bit.
Meat AND beans, huh? Could contribute to global warming in more ways than one.
I wore camo and brought a large bag with paintball gun and gear to my community college once for a speech class. No one even looked at me twice as I walked into the building... no kind of dress surprises people anymore.
I don't think I'd like to try that now though...
Longjack, something funny for once, enjoy!
What this country has come to. Before I bought my first car I sometimes drove my dad's truck to school (he was an engineer for an oil company and had a company truck assigned to him).
In a gun rack just inside the rear window were a Mini-14 and a 7mm Mauser. In the glove box was an M1911. There were probably no less than 100 rounds in the truck for each weapon.
Not only that, there were at least 20 other trucks in the school parking lots with weapons in them. Some of them owned by teachers or coaches.
Can you imagine the squeals and howls of rage if the same were to happen today?
This is unbelieveable!!!!!
Every kid ever born onthe Eastern New Mexico plains has cut their teeth on a firearm.
Just great. A burrito causes hysteria in New Mexico while a 10 year old in Portland, Or. carries a loaded .38cal. revolver around school for half a day before school officals find out(the kid threatened to shoot anybody who told on him).
When burritos are outlawed, only outlaws will have burritos.
If every high school male with a long skinny thing in his pants was expelled, we would only have girls schools for cryin' out loud.
Almostlike a bird flying over the White House causing an evacuation.
They showed that thing on the 5:00 news. It was wrapped in foil and covered with a white kitchen towel. I could see where someone could mistake it for a gun.
Guess the citizens' beeber got stuned, along with the cops. Oh well, beebers get stuned all over this great land.
FMCDH(BITS)
He should be happy he wasn't arrested for having something that someone THOUGHT looked like a gun.
Even though the kid was in NM, I'm sure he had a real burrito and not some Taco Hell crap.
I hope they weren't planning to put a condom on it as a class exercise.
-PJ
Somebody pass the Advil.
"a two-and-a-half-foot-long burrito."
How does one carry a 2 1/2 foot long burrito?
Over the shoulder or with two hands?
You would think it would droop in the middle if you carried it with one hand.
How did he keep all the stuff from falling out. I can keep the ones from Taco Bell in one piece.
"...a citizen saw a student walking into school with a long, skinny object wrapped in a white cloth..."
a citizen should be cited for making a false report...
"Before I bought my first car I sometimes drove my dad's truck to school (he was an engineer for an oil company and had a company truck assigned to him). "
"In a gun rack just inside the rear window were a Mini-14 and a 7mm Mauser. In the glove box was an M1911. There were probably no less than 100 rounds in the truck for each weapon. Not only that, there were at least 20 other trucks in the school parking lots with weapons in them. Some of them owned by teachers or coaches."
And never a single "gun related" incident either the whole time you were there I bet... me too in my hometown area (especially around opening week of deer season) but back then it never was a problem.
Of course back then there weren't that many whiny liberal parents obsessively trying to be their kids best friends either. We knew the proper value of things because we had to earn them the old fashioned way, by hard work. We respected others and their property too for the same reason. And we all sure knew respect for firearms from an early age. Some states (Idaho I know) used to require a NRA course be completed for the HS boys to graduate. It was part of the PE program. It included live fire marksmanship training with hunting rifles for the final grade. .30-.30's not .22's. It was not optional. They made sure we all knew how and practiced safe handling and shooting. Net result, fewer accidents. Why did we ever allow these programs to end?
Can you imagine the liberal, anti-2nd Amendment howling that would go on today at the mere suggestion that these tried and true methods of reducing accident and injuries to out youth be readopted in our schools again today?
I still live in an open carry state, if only we can keep it.
1ofmanyfree
Thank you.
**Every kid ever born onthe Eastern New Mexico plains has cut their teeth on a firearm.***
I went to High school in Carlsbad NM way back in 1962. One day several students showed up with rifles, handguns and large knives.
No panic. No lockdown. No race riot. it was LEATHERCRAFT CLASS and they were building holsters and scabbards.
Now that I think of it, the first firearm I saw at school was in Farmington, NM way back in 1956. A kid took an old military percussion cap pistol for show and tell.
What would happen today....
I once had a burrito scare in Clovis.....
I was on a road trip...and had a burrito on the road....
About the time I hit clovis.....I had the scare....
hysteria ended when I found a restroom...
Can't helieve it...30 posts and not yet even one ''Drop the chalupa! '' reference.
:^)
LoL
Lol, pong
Given that this was in New Mexico. A tall cool one and some Pepto-Bismol might be more appropriate. They like their stuff muy caliente.
If I ate a 2 1/2 foot New Mexican burrito and it wouldn't be all that silent and it would near deadly for everyone around me.
With a burrito that big, especially one from New Mexico, you'll be making a run alright, but it won't be for the border.
I would imagine you have a 2 1/2 foot long piece of cardboard holding it, before you wrapped it up in the foil.
been meaning to change my tag, but it never seems the right time.
Not mention all the kids taken away in handcuffs. It's federal crime after all. Defined in the law as a misdemeanor, even though it's punishable by up to 5 years in prison. Although that should still provide lifetime loss of the "violators" RKBA, because that law doesn't mention felonies, but rather "punishable by more than 1 year".
"I would imagine you have a 2 1/2 foot long piece of cardboard holding it, before you wrapped it up in the foil."
I think even a piece of cardboard wouldn`t handle a burrito that large. Maybe it was a frozen burrito?
Leave it to a guy to take a big ole burrito to a " culinary career class " ....LOL !
Then a yardstick maybe?
I am from Portales, 20 miles from Clovis, and never even heard of a burrito until I was living in California.
My junior and senior year in high school I would also carry my katana with me sometimes. I would have practice after school and on days that I rode my motorcycle I had no choice but to keep it with me and carry it from class to class.
I can imagine the panic it would cause theses days.
I sure hope this kid gets expelled under the zero tolerance laws. Burritos are guns if you look at them the right way
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