Student with wooden color guard rifle prompts lockdown, lockouts at Boulder schools

Fox31 Denver ^ | 16 Mar 18 | huck Hickey

[real saxophonist]

BOULDER, Colo. — A student with a wooden color guard rifle prompted Fairview High School to be placed on lockdown and four other schools placed on lockout on Friday morning, the Boulder Police Department said.

Police received a call about 7:30 a.m. saying they saw a teenage boy carrying what they believed was a white rifle case near Emerson Avenue in south Boulder. No gun was seen.

Mar 16, 2018

The Boulder Valley School District said just after 8 a.m. that Fairview was placed on the more restrictive lockdown, meaning all classrooms were secured, the lights were turned off and students were being kept quiet and in place indoors.

Southern Hills Middle School, Bear Creek Elementary School, Community Montessori School and Mesa Elementary were placed on lockout, the district said.

The restrictions were lifted about 8:30 a.m. after police found the student and it was determined he had been carrying a white wooden rifle that was brought to school for a color guard class.

The student usually carries the wooden rifle in a case. But the case he was carrying was full of flags so he decided to carry the rifle outside of the case, police said.

[real saxophonist]

[shelterguy]

Is that a fully automatic 2x4?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

It must’ve been made from assault wood.

[WayneS]

Ucking Fidiots.

[Wizdum]

Is that a fully automatic 2x4?

No, the 2X6 is the full automatic.

[robroys woman]

It must’ve been made from assault wood.

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Usually we just call them Louisville sluggers. :)

[MileHi]

The left is collectively insane.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Isn’t it good American wood

[American in Israel]

We have goobermint why? To hide if something goes wrong, virtue fascist when a 2x4 attacks, and spend all our money on themselves?

[lee martell]

I know one person in my family who gets triggered just by SEEING the word GUNS unexpectedly. She voted for Hillary, by the way.

[WKUHilltopper]

Intentionally trying to condition people to faint with anything that looks like a firearm. This is nothing more than psychological dog training.

[KC_Lion]

Ping for your interest.

[shelterguy]

I think I know what happened to the country and why it has become so incredibly wussified.......

Remember all them kids who got picked last for kickball? They became school superintendents.

[Drew68]

If he were smart, he’d turn that in at the next “no questions asked” gun buyback and get himself a $100 gift card.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Ditto. Used to twirl one of those my first year in band.

[real saxophonist]

Being this is Boulder, I’m surprised these rifles are even allowed. They are actually very good, visually, being spun and tossed.

[day10]

I went to an HS football game this past fall and, as the color guard performed with these things, I said to my friend: “I wonder how long it will be before the fake guns are outlawed?”

Here it comes.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

We must make a law requiring low splinter wooden guns.

[LIConFem]

Not surprising, given how incensed they were when a child nibbled a Pop Tart into the shape of a gun.