I don't think it quite rises to the level of "pop-tart gun terrorism"
Posted on 10/02/2014 3:44:46 AM PDT by markomalley
Guns and rumors of guns aren’t the only things that will cause schools to go into lockdown mode.
Costumes – complete with plastic sword – apparently will do it, too.
Four schools in Onslow County, North Carolina were sent into police lockdown when a cafeteria worker panicked when the employee saw someone dressed like a pirate.
It was “International Talk Like A Pirate Day” and one school employee apparently decided to take it one step further.
A staff member reported seeing a “suspicious person” – the “pirate” – approaching the school and called police.
“The Onslow County Sheriff’s Office said that ‘suspicious person’ turned out to be a Richlands Elementary staff member dressed as a pirate,” ABC 12 reports.
The school was locked down for about three hours and no “suspicious person” was to be found – likely because he or she was in a classroom.
According to The Daily News, “Onslow County Schools sent out a news release the day after the incident indicating the it was a case of mistaken identity and there was no malicious intent.”
WITN reports the panic started when “the worker mistook a plastic sword for a gun.”
“It was terrifying,” says Bailey Padgett, a student at Trexler Middle tells the news station.
“I didn’t know what was going on … we were all huddled up in a corner.”
Police were also searching for a “white man” wearing “cammo pants and a drab olive shirt” but ultimately found nothing.
According to WITN, “… A man approached a teacher at Richlands Elementary this morning. The teacher noticed the man had a gun on his hip; it’s against the law to have a gun on school property. The teacher reported the man to officials, but he hasn’t been seen since.”
That likely led to the cafeteria employee mistaking the plastic sword for a gun.
Richlands Primary, Richlands High School and Trexler Middle School, in addition to Richlands Elementary, were given the all clear and the pirate festivities resumed.
The stupid is enough to make your eyes bleed.
Oh, good God...
Yet another sign of a formerly great country having been reduced to a pathetic, quivering mass of panicked fear of its own shadow.
Man up, America.. you’re embarrassing your sad self.
And these are the people educating the children!
I don't think it quite rises to the level of "pop-tart gun terrorism"
You’re right. We’ve become a silly culture, society, and country.
Silly countries get hurt.
We will have deserved it.
FOUR schools?????
Did they spot the Queen Anne on the sound or something???
Next will come the lawsuits because some precious flower will be suffering from PTSD and the school district/teacher will be blamed.
“””“I didn’t know what was going on … we were all huddled up in a corner.””””””
Do they have an official name for plastic sword-a-phobia yet?
I can't hearrrr yooooou!
Fire any "worker" who can't tell the difference between a plastic sword and a gun.
Who want’s to take bets the reporting hysterical individual was a female?
Who want’s to take bets the reporting hysterical individual was a female?
...I wouldn’t touch that bet with a thousand foot pole...in fact, if it weren’t a female, I’d be shocked, shocked, I tell you...
All your plastic swords are belong to us.
I think a 6th grader could have written a better article than this idiot reporter.
Still, the school staffer is an even larger idiot and should be given a couple of weeks “time out’ without pay because of all the trouble she caused and the cost to the community.
I mean no offense to any FR teachers, but my public school teachers in the ‘40s-’50s weren’t such wimps as the teachers of today. I have lost all respect for public school teachers, in general, although I know there are still some good ones out there.
We’ll lock down a school because of a plastic sword, but we won’t restrict the travel of those coming from ebola-ridden countries.
The cafeteria employee also often mistakes Moochelle's entrees for real food.
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