Posted on 05/17/2013 5:42:30 AM PDT by KosmicKitty
Just got a text message from my 16 year old
North Haven High School in lockdown due to a home invasion on Elm Street (same street as school)
I'm sure it's just a precaution, but moms still worry.
And we live right next door to the school, so I'm in lockdown here too :-(
Yep, ready to go - and unfortunately in our vacation home in another state.
All I've got here is a non-function ancient rifle and a black power muzzle loader that I don't have a clue how to load.
Guess I could hit them over the head with it :-)
Everyone cower in place. /sarc
We’ve had resource officers in our schools FOR DECADES.........
I lived most of my life next door in Wallingford, but fled CT 15 years ago. What in blazes is happening out there?! North Haven ain’t Meriden. It ain’t even Hamden!
Things sure went downhill in North Haven since Angelo retired.
Told my son - Run, Hide, Fight - In that order.
I despise this lockdown and “wait to got shot” mentality. I teach at Gateway and I noticed that they just put up the “Gun Free Zone” signs. After some crazy girl threatened to do a “Sandy Hook” at the school!!
I teach at UNH too. At least there we have armed police.
We just started locking our doors after the Cheshire home invasion.
Don’t worry, they lock-down schools now if they find a peanut butter sandwich in the cafeteria when a kid with allergies is in there.
They locked-down my kid’s school and sent everyone home when a 6th grader wrote something on a bathroom stall about blowing up the school.
its getting ridiculous.
Looks like they’ve lifted the lockdown.
I’ll listen to the IRS testimony a few more minutes then I’m heading out to my garden.
I’m pretty good with a shovel or hoe :-)
I would still keep it handy. If they come to the door, greet them with it and they will likely bug out. They don't know it isn't loaded.
$&#% autocorrect turned me into a dork once again...: )
Funny thing is, when I originally read it, I read Force. Didn't even catch the typo since I understood what you meant.
I don't want to derail the whole topic, but there's a big difference there. Armed guards in schools are a good idea, while seatbelts on school buses are a bad idea. All research and testing shows that seatbelts would not materially change injury rates in bus crashes, and would actually increase injuries. Three or four feet of webbing with a buckle on the end makes a formidable weapon in the hands of a kid. Most crash injuries are minor, and rarely is ejection from a bus ever an issue-- which is the main function of seatbelts.
I feel so guilty LOL over that.
“Three or four feet of webbing with a buckle on the end makes a formidable weapon in the hands of a kid.”
You shoulda been on my bus the day crazy Micky got hold of the driver’s lead pipe.
Now that’s entertainment.
Elm Street....?
Guess should call this “NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET”
Was Freddy Kruger involved....?
My son’s school does this often if anything happens within a block or two. However, there was no lockdown when a white-haired grandfatherly looking gentleman walked in and wandered through the hallways stealing wallets out of the teachers’ purses.
According to the sex offender database, there are 4 offenders in North Haven and 2 of them live on Elm Street!!
If it’s close to a school, it must be a gun-free zone. Burglars and rapists prefer those areas.
There’ been a homeless guy who just got arrested for child porn living in the woods in the area of the school for months!!
He just got arrested last week.
When they first started “lock downs” here I told my kids that if there was ever a lock down they were to sprint past all of the teachers and leave the school. Either meet us a a rally point or continue on to the house. I would deal with the consequences afterwards.
Can you tell me if they moved the high school?
FMCDH(BITS)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.