Posted on 07/17/2009 11:06:15 PM PDT by myknowledge
It was supposed to inspire pupils to write more creatively.
But the arrival of a UFO at Southway Junior School also inspired something rather different - terror.
Some of the seven to 11-year-olds were left in tears after a spaceship apparently crash-landed and a teacher was abducted by aliens.
To make it look realistic, the school obtained sirens and flashing lights from the police and littered the grounds with debris from the 'spaceship'.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Orson Wells’ War of the Worlds all over again!
...But what I’d like to know: it’s the middle of frickin’ July! Aren’t kids supposed to be on SUMMER BREAK?!?!?
Oh. School is in the U.K. Never mind...
Sure sounds like a better use of school time than putting condoms on cucumbers.
Sounds like the cover up has gone into full swing.
The funny thing...is that had this occurred in Alabama...the kids would have left school at the first sign of trouble...ran home to the family reporting alien invasion...and then everyone would have pulled out guns and shot anyone coming up to the trailer as a possible alien in disguise.
Morons.
I could not take it oh so seriously seriesly really, when you called and said you'd seen a UFO!
Mark
Was her name Mrs Wormwood?
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