Shell casing found at Homer Glen school

Chicago Tribune ^ | 08 mar 2014 | Dennis Sullivan

[rellimpank]

School administrators and Will County sheriff's police are scratching their heads over the discovery of a shell casing today at Hadley Middle School in south suburban Homer Glen.

Will County Sheriff Deputy Chief Ken Kaupas said three dogs trained in finding weapons and gunpowder found no other weapons-related items during a two-hour investigation of classrooms and lockers.

"Obviously we took the situation seriously," he said.

Kaupas said the shell casing had turned up around

[rellimpank]

--another example of the current idiocy--

[Flintlock]

I hope it didn’t shoot anybody.
Was anyone injured in the resulting mass panic?

[szweig]

You mean....all I have to do is go to the range, practice with 50 or 100 rounds, pick up a few pieces of spent brass, go by my local schoolyard and toss one of the shell casings onto the playground and watch this kind of FUN ensue? Wotta wonderful idea to kill a lazy Tuesday afternoon!

[Slings and Arrows]

Mobilize the grief counselors!

[muir_redwoods]

My high school rifle team used to shoot in the basement of an elementary school. Two dozen armed teenagers walking into an elementary school twice a week intent on shooting and no one ever got hurt.

[TADSLOS]

Probably a pop tart crumb in disguise.

[RandallFlagg]

[PilotDave]

Thank god it wasn’t a bullet key chain! They would have called out the swat teams with urban assault trucks to shoot dogs and write some parking tickets...

[Cobra64]

Typical reporter: "Shell casing"

There is no such thing as an ammunition "shell casing." Again, these asswipes "report" on stuff they know nothing about.

[Tupelo]

Some mornings, after reading the headlines and just a few stories like this, I want to cry.
I am starting to think America is lost forever.

[ConservativeInPA]

There is no such thing as an ammunition "shell casing."

Beat me to it. Casings are stuffed with meat and spices to make sausage.

[riverrunner]

I think every public school in Chicago land should have several dozens of casings thrown onto the ground.

Use steel casings and nothing is lost.

[tomkat]

you and me both, FRiend

[ThePatriotsFlag]

If they are into bullet casings they should come out to my gun range. Plenty for all.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

At least they didn’t call it a ‘bullet’.

[cripplecreek]

[Bernard]

School administrators and Will County sheriff's police are scratching their heads over the discovery of a shell casing today .....

When I read this, all I could think about was the opening scene of 2001 with the monkeys scratching their.... whatevers.

Or Sid Ceasar and his fellow actors being in awe of a dead person in History of the World...

[DeWalt]

It will later be identified, after rigorous testing, as a lipstick tube.

[bgill]

I bet it fits a pop tart.

[tillacum]

Another FREE GUN zone?