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Burrito causes gun scare at Clovis school
Loaded with meat and beans, a long burrito prompted police to lock down a Clovis junior high school.
Last Update: 04/28/2005 5:26:52 PM
By: Todd Dukart

It wasn’t a gun that caused police to lock down Marshall Junior High School in Clovis. It was a burrito.

Police locked the school down after a citizen saw a student walking into school with a long, skinny object wrapped in a white cloth. He thought it was a gun and called police.

Officers searched for the student while the school was on lockdown. But the student came forward first, admitting he had what they were looking for – a two-and-a-half-foot-long burrito.

The student had taken the burrito, wrapped in foil and a white cloth, to present in a culinary career class. It was loaded – with meat and beans.

Police called the incident a good exercise for all of the officers who responded to the school.

One observer joked that with the right combination of ingredients, the burrito could have been a deadly weapon.

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That "citizen" should be arrested. But the story is just one more example of how everything today is reacted to with hysteria.Our country is really going down the tubes.
 
Everyone wants their own 15 minutes of fame for being a hero. Sadly all they end up doing is making a mess.
 
DROP THE BURRITO AND PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR!!!



No one needs a burrito that big. We must ban the burritos...its for the children...

Good work, officer - you probably saved a whole classroom of kids from a tasty meal.
 
I think its more like the joys of a 'post-Columbine world'. Or, if you want to go farther back, of a 'no-guns-in-schools world'.
For pity's sake, who could mistake a burrito for a gun enough to call the cops? A white tube? That could be anything!
 
In Beaverton a while back, they had a "Man With A Gun" thing near Beaverton High, turned out it was a person with a rifle, who had just bought it and was walking from his car to his house(maybe 20 feet). School got locked down.

People are so stupid.
 
Twycross,

you're right, there is no definitive event to blame for the growing paranoia of folks in this country. each subsequent event (columbine, 9-11, etc) just increases the paranoia.

next thing ya know just saying the word 'gun' will cause a panic!
 
next thing ya know just saying the word 'gun' will cause a panic!
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There was an article in the local paper a few days ago relating a similar story about a panic.

An Air Force C-17 cargo plane was scheduled to land at the local municipal airport (which is large enough to accomodate commercial jets) but there was backed up traffic so he was told to go into a holding pattern at 2000 feet over the adjacent town.

Over 150 people called 911 to report the plane circling the area. At least two local schools brought all their kids inside and went into lockdown mode.

Britons faced fleets of German bombers over London in WWII with resolve and a stiff upper lip. People in this country, on the other hand, piss their pants and hide under the bed when one of our own planes flys by.
 
next thing ya know just saying the word 'gun' will cause a panic!
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I had a previous employer that would make all employees attend a "sensitivity training class" It become company policy that you could not use certain words at work - for example "postal" or "gun"

In their mind we had no reason to use those words as we did not have to deal with either at that job and it would induce stress and fear...
 
The "hero" in the story should probably lay off the mentholated crack for a while. Maybe try the crack Light 100s for a while to take the edge off.


I've heard that mentholated crack can be really bad for you. :rolleyes:


A nation of addled sheeple morons. :barf:
 
It become company policy that you could not use certain words at work - for example "postal" or "gun"

Please tell me this company didn't make postal code scanning guns! :D
 
Britons faced fleets of German bombers over London in WWII with resolve and a stiff upper lip. People in this country, on the other hand, piss their pants and hide under the bed when one of our own planes flys by.
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Owl, that was choice. We have become products of the nanny-state, and as the old saying goes- "The fruit don't fall far from the tree."
 
The Brits had nothing on us . In NYC public schools we had "Duck and Cover". We laughed in the face of Nukes. "BRING IT ON" . Our desks will protect us .
 
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