'Heart Of Gold'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
The most common reason our schools went on lockdown? One of the schools out in the boonies had a coyote or some other wildlife with teeth hanging around the schoolyard and it wasn't clearly communicated that it was *just* at the one school. Never failed to crack me up.
My email is gaslighting me.
apparently, lockdown is one of the earliest steps a lost of schools take response to a threat, on the theory that if it does turn out to be serious, you can keep the nutter in a contained area, you don't have kids wandering around the halls where you can't easily account for them, and so on -- so it really sounds more serious than it is.
That makes perfect sense to me. But in this case, it's multiple schools? That sounds a like a bigger deal. Except if it's like what Sara is talking about.
Bless you, WTOP: [link]
Looks like now there's a bomb threat AND a crazy fuck with a gun. The reason it's five schools is because the gun was displayed at a bus stop, so they don't know exactly which school is threatened.
Bah! on people with guns and bombs threatening schools.
ION, we have a chance of snow tonight.
I think that they need to come up with a better word for it than "lockdown". . . .it could be a fluffy pink alert. That way everyone would know that it's not serious. . . yet.
Ay yai yai.
I think that they need to come up with a better word for it than "lockdown". . .
Too true -- from what my friends were saying, it's kind of the alert equivalent of a fire alarm (get everyone in order, out, and accounted for) rather than the firemen breaking down the doors with axes, but the name really strikes me as an artefact of the whole macho-paranoid security climate.
Now WTOP is saying NINE schools are locked down. And I don't know if it's changed, or if I just misread it the first time.
They could call it everyone stay in your room time.
I *just* realized why one of the tech's at the vet's office looks so familiar: she bears a passing resemblence to Abby on NCIS. Same hair, coloring, personal style, chirpy warm personality.
Oh she's my favorite one!
Matt, I hope your dad's clot clears up soon. And that that's his last trip to the hospital for a good long time.
My co-worker brought in pumpkin whoopie pies that his wife the professional baker made. so so yummy. the filling has little bits of crystallized ginger.