Posted on 11/28/2018 3:50:55 AM PST by a little elbow grease
Hockey pucks: They're small, heavy and — one Michigan college thinks — might be the perfect weapon against an active shooter on campus.
Oakland University, a public school located in Rochester Hills, near Detroit, is distributing thousands of 94-cent hockey pucks for just that reason.
The distribution, which began earlier this month, stemmed from a March faculty active-shooter training session following February's shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school that left 17 dead.
A participant at the training asked the Oakland University Police Chief Mark Gordon what items people could use to defend themselves on the campus, which has a no-weapons policy, the Detroit Free Press reports.
A hockey puck was a "spur-of-the-moment idea that seemed to have some merit to it and it kind of caught on," Gordon said.
The faculty union followed up on the idea, purchasing 2,500 hockey pucks: 800 for union members and 1,700 for students, the Free Press reports. (snip) -- "If you threw [a hockey puck] at a gunman it would probably cause some injury. It would be a distraction, if nothing else," Gordon told WXYZ, a local ABC station. The police chief also suggested a group of students could "rush" an active shooter with their pucks, creating a distraction that would allow someone else to get their hands on the shooter's weapon.
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sigh.....and I did look....
More coffee?
More coffee....
Ooooh! You goalies always were a little weird. But us defensemen love ya.
Well, in that case:
AIM careful, kids. So You CAN put an eye out with that thing
OK, sorry I didn’t mean to get off topic.
That’s not what I meant. I was just saying, originally, that throwing hockey pucks wouldn’t have much effect on a person wearing body armor.
OK, I know if I got hit with a Puck in the face or probably anywhere I’m gonna go “OUCH” and a few other choice words.
In the face, certainly. However, a hockey puck is not the most accurate projectile, unless the school holds hockey-puck-throwing classes.
Honestly, the whole concept is just so dumb!
It's not dumb. And it's not really intended for adults in college.
In school shootings involving small children, a tactical problem is the ability of the shooter to aim deliberately and fire at his pace.
Throwing solid objects at his head, even if they miss, as long as they enter his field of vision, are both a distraction and a disrupter of his sight picture.
Of course, it's a temporary measure to facilitate escape and armed response.
If there's not a armed guard able to respond and kill the shooter, it's kind of pointless.
But it's better than freezing and waiting to be shot.
Yeah, okay.
In Barkley’s case, that’s a funny thing, but not something unheard of. Most celebrity autobiographies are ghost-written out of necessity. The better ones list the writer as the co-author. The idea being that the book industry thinks it’s okay so long as the subject is telling the story, whether or not he’s doing the actual writing.
But it’s still hysterical.
Yes, you are right.
Barkley doesn’t care, and neither did Bill Russell.
Likely I wouldn’t care either if I were them.
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