One Bullet = Lockdown
Anyone else think they're giving kids ideas?
- A northwest suburban middle school was locked down for more than four hours today after a student found a bullet on a hallway floor, according to an email sent out to parents.
Dan Coles, superintendent of Wauconda Community Unit School District 118, said in the email that Matthews Middle School in Island Lake was under a “cautionary lock-down” from 8 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. after the bullet was found as students were arriving.
Thye [sic] investigation that followed included a canine unit, a locker-by-locker search, and review of security footage, according to the email. Police determined it was safe to resume a normal schedule, the email said.
You know why you never hear about this on the south and west sides? Because if someone found a bullet on the floor, they'd keep it in case someone had a gun that fit it later.
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
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OT somewhat but what's with the two do nothing's at Ferdinand an Tripp pumps? An how can someone of my stature get a gig like they got? Jaguar makes good cars!
What an OVER-REACTION!!!! -I've been to the grade schools when bullets are found in the kids backpacks or fallen out of pockets and reported to school staff. The story is familiar..."I found it in the couch (on the floor, etc)."
Lock-down, canine unit, a locker-by-locker search, and review of security footage??????
-Hey, Wauconda, grow-up and come to reality! Lock-down????? Really????? Geeeezzzzzz!!!
Wauconda, open a dictionary: o·ver·re·act·ed,
"To react with unnecessary or inappropriate force, emotional display, or violence."
Imagine those kids in middle school laughing at their administrators...
SCC called this right-on (as usual): In Austin or Auburn-Gresham "if someone found a bullet on the floor in school, they'd keep it in case someone had a gun that fit it later."
Not only did I bring bullets to school in Chicago I brought my own 22 rifle! I was on the ROTC rifle team at Senn High School. We had a small bore rifle range at the school. We also drilled with real M-1 Garand rifles! I remember shooting on Nov 22, 1963 the day Kennedy was assassinated.
It's genius, actually.
You plant one or two unfired rounds in a school and wait for the cavalry to arrive.
While they're dicking around at that school, getting their dog-&-pony show assembled, you attack a different school, on the other side of town.
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Reminds me of a senior prank of a high school where the staff came in and found three small pigs running through the place. The pigs were clearly marked, "#1",
"#2" and "#4".
The staff and police spent all day looking for pig "#3">
There was never a pig "#3".
This couldn't be overreaction on the part of school officials, could it?
OT: Chicago Crack Attack Pt. 2
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Published on Nov 14, 2013
Impromptu family dance party on the middle of LaSalle & Monroe.
No retro. See Fran's article in the Suntimes. Shields is a dead man walking. Dan Herbert should have kicked his punk ass when he had the chance. Fuck you Mike. If you get one vote in 2014 that's one vote too many.
OT: Looks like the FOP election is a two-horse race now that we retro pay is out. One of those horses is disabled. Dean the Dream Angelo might just fuck us more than Shields did.
Dougherty seems to be the only logical choice Even tthough Shields and Angelo tried to torpedo him with this made up military veteran bullshit. Karma is a bitch Mikey. Look out Dean its right around the corner looking for your I'm too hurt to work as the police ass. Hope you enjoyed robbing my pension for the past decade plus.
I remember bringing bullets from my dads service revolver to school for show and tell. The schools have done a great job in demasculinizing the average student, this is what happens when you have folks with liberal arts degrees teaching your kids.
It's all to acclimate the kids to the presence of police and military. They want the fear factor to exist and they do these things all over the country. It is pathetic. Guns are being demonized and so is the Constitution. The conman in chief hates both and does everything to get rid of both.
Wait, someone finds a bullet IN the school so they lock everyone IN the school? Wouldn't you try and get everyone OUT of the school to avoid a fish in a barrel type situation? Just askin.
Over reaction is what suburbs like to do, it shows they mean business and are professionals yada yada yada. It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that some of these suburban departments go to when handling an incident such as a traffic crash. I've witnessed 4 fucking lanes of traffic completely cut off in order to service some asshole who caused a traffic crash when 2 lanes would have more than sufficed. I believe it's the "lets slow traffic to a fucking crawl so people can see what the fuck were doing". How bout getting the clusterfuck crash cleared up with a minimal amount of inconvenience so people can go about their business of attempting to go to and from work or home or wherever else they chose. The same rule applies in this instance. One stupid ass kid drops a bullet on the floor and the entire fucking place is locked down. Wow! How about assigning one officer to stay in the school the entire day instead of all the other bullshit which everyone was subjected to.
Reminds me of a senior prank of a high school where the staff came in and found three small pigs running through the place. The pigs were clearly marked, "#1",
"#2" and "#4".
The staff and police spent all day looking for pig "#3">
There was never a pig "#3".
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That right there is about the funniest thing I have ever read. Also ranks up there as best school prank. Kudos sir. Kudos. Bid I knew your name and unit I would buy you lunch. Greatest prank ever.
Some kid figured a way to get out of a test that day.
In today's fucked up society, you just never know.
School personnel are out of their minds.
Att: Crimefile
Yep you're right. That was SOP at all Chicago Public High Schools in the 1960s. At good old Kelly ('66) the ROTC was in the basement, they had a rifle range there, and drilled with M-1 Garands. The fact is that not only were firearms common in-with ROTC, the Chi Cop (Sgt iirc) assigned to the school had his .38 S&W right there on his hip where anyone could grab it as he walked the halls with everyone between periods (But no one would even think of that then, kids respected the Police).
Besides that, like many kids back then I carried a pocket knife every day and it wasn't any 'super duper state secret', teachers knew we had knives. Not to mention the jerks with the M-80s & Cherry Bombs (explosives today) who got some sick kick by flushing them down the boys toilet. Plus all the 'neat things' kids made on the sly in shop classes which would all be dangerous weapons now (of mass destruction or something). I made a nice detailed Oak Judge's Gavel in one day on the lathe, now it'd be classified as a Bludgeon.
With Zero Tolerance any of that would be cause for them to not only lock down the school, but call in SEAL Team Six to take us all out as terrorists. Oh!....and the Grief Counselors, those scam artists would be on site pqd afterwards to soothe the bruised psyches of today's youth over a 'weapon' (I fear for future generations).
(LOL. My Woodshop Teacher had a desk drawer full of all the neat things he collected over the years that he caught his 'enterprising students' make on the sly. He never turned any of them in. Mr Wasil Rocked!)
Not only did I bring bullets to school in Chicago I brought my own 22 rifle! I was on the ROTC rifle team at Senn High School. We had a small bore rifle range at the school. We also drilled with real M-1 Garand rifles! I remember shooting on Nov 22, 1963 the day Kennedy was assassinated.
11/15/2013 01:00:00 AM
Oh my God, so you're saying you shot Kennedy? I'll be damned, the conspiracy theorists were right there was a third gunman at the grassy knoll!!
Overreaction? Really? This is why the burbs, at least most of the NW and Northern burbs don't have this crap.
Think about it, wouldn't you rather have overreaction than no action if your kid attended that school. Bullets and guns may be the norm in the ghetto but in most suburban schools around Chicago they aren't. Quit bashing Wauconda for doing their job. Where there is a bullet, the gun could be close. Quit comparing Chicago policing to anyone else, crime does not stop at the Chicago border.
I was the chemistry class aide and had access to the chemical vault. Red phosphorus/potassium permanganate paste on brown bathroom towels and placed upside down throughout the litter strewn halls of high school. 1st one I tried was in the bathroom and after I stomped it and the resulting explosion melted my banlon [sp?]sock to my ankle , I knew I had a good thing going. Lowered the dosage and all day long there were explosions going off in the hallways. School was so much fun then and when I got on the job, life became even more of a comedy of tragedies. But humor and insanity got us through. Long live the F Troop.
is that a bullet in your pocket.....
or are ya' just glad ta' see me?
Chalkie
To the quiche-eater, Anonymous at 12:15:00 PM:
If you want us to "Quit comparing Chicago policing to anyone else, then you need to go find yourself another blog to post on!
Anonymous said...
is that a bullet in your pocket.....
or are ya' just glad ta' see me?
Chalkie
CHALKIE! I've missed your rapier wit - welcome back
I love how everyone says overreaction! If your kids were in school and you heard they found bullets, your heart would skip for a second at least. Bullets dont kill people, the the machine/tool they feed into does in the hands of a jagoff. Where there is smoke, there's fire. Where there are bullets, there MAY be a gun. You want your kid in a school that doesn't handle the situation as real?!
Im not talking to the old heads about gun ranges at school, Amundsen had one too, but if bullets were found then, they would be able to tell if the caliber matched what was used and there would have been a reason for their presence.
The school did the right thing for this day and age. No wonder detectives are overwhelmed if some of you tested. You cant teach common sense or leadership skills, you have it or you dont, and you cant fix stupid either.
To: Cutbert J. Twillie & Crimefile.
One of my contemporaries from that era made in shop class a small, working smooth bore ship's cannon like you might have seen in the Errol Flynn movie, "Captain Blood."
(Now you'd say Johnny Depp and "Pirates of the Caribbean".)
As I recall they test fired it in the school parking and he got a B+ in the class.
If that happened today what the hell would happen?
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