"Would you like a slushy with that?"
Posted on 05/03/2005 6:12:13 AM PDT by SLB
CLOVIS, N.M. -- A 911 call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school.
All over a giant burrito.
Someone called authorities Thursday after seeing a boy carrying something long and wrapped up into Marshall Junior High School.
The drama ended two hours later when the suspicious item was identified as a 30-inch burrito filled with steak, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and jalapenos. It was wrapped inside tin foil and a white T-shirt.
"I didn't know whether to laugh or cry," school Principal Diana Russell said.
Russell said the mystery was solved after she brought everyone in the school together in the auditorium to explain what was going on. Afterward, eighth-grader Michael Morrissey approached her.
"He said, 'I think I'm the person they saw,"' Russell said.
The burrito was part of Morrissey's extra-credit assignment to create commercial advertising for a product. "We had to make up a product and it could have been anything. I made up a restaurant that specialized in oddly large burritos," Morrissey said.
After students heard the description of what police were looking for, he and his friends began to make the connection. He then took the burrito to the office.
"I have a new nickname now. It's Burrito Boy," Morrissey said.
Yesterday it was a 31-inch burrito. Shrinkage?
Did you hear about the little 8 year old boy who was expelled because he messed with a pretzel and made it look like a gun? I think the liberals are going cRaZy out there.
It's a good thing they caught him... Everybody knows a burrito should have beans and cheese in it, in addition to all the other stuff.
A 30" burrito is a lethal weapon once ingested.
This would be a good movie. Maybe could slam Michael Moore types. Picture Moore at this school getting footage for his upcoming documentary, "Bowling for Columbine," interviewing frightened students and teachers who say we need tougher gun control laws, as snipers position themselves on the roofs. At the end of the movie, it turns out to be a burrito.
Cry, for we are governerned by fools who don't trust the citizens of this pea-brained Nation.
Is this a second incident of a burrito caper or a repeat thread. I swear I read this a couple weeks ago
I thought we were governed by ourselves, via our representatives. So, who's at fault for faulty government?
I WAS IN THE POOL!!!!!!!!!!
I WAS IN THE POOL!!!!!!!!!!
Heard on the police scanner:
Cop 1: "OK, KID! DROP THE BURRITO AND PUT YOUR HANDS OVER YOUR HEAD!"
Cop 2: (sotto voce) OK, you two cuff the kid and haul him away. You, Swenson, grab the burrito. Lunch is in 5 minutes behind the football bleachers. After lunch, we'll head down to Donut World. You all with me?
6th posting - Search is your friend...... :-)
I did search - nothing on Burrito. Post the links to this thread for ease in tranisiton.
Not enough coffee - I was searching by Poster. The handle "Burrito" is free if someone wants it. :-)
That would never work. Michael Moore would devour the burrito and go back for seconds.
Really like your tagline, BTW. I dearly love C. S. Lewis' writings.
"Would you like a slushy with that?"
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