Posted on 12/13/2007 7:56:59 AM PST by JZelle
ROXBURY, Conn. (AP) ― A school custodian's impromptu after-hours karaoke performance prompted a police response when a teacher thought she was being threatened over the loudspeaker.
State police say a teacher at Booth Free School barricaded herself inside a classroom Wednesday when she mistook someone singing a Guns N' Roses song over the public address system for a threat.
She was working after hours and thought no one else was in the building. Then she heard someone say over the loudspeaker that she was going to die.
Six troopers and three police dogs showed up and found three teenagers, one of them a custodian at the school, who had been playing with the public address system.
Police say one of them sang "Welcome to the Jungle" into the microphone. The song contains the lyrics "You're in the jungle baby; you're gonna die."
The teenagers were cuffed on the ground for about 15 minutes while police investigated. They were released after being questioned and state police Sgt. Brian Ness said they did not realize the teacher was in the school and will not face charges.
"These things happen," Van Ness said. "Luckily it was humorous. You kind of have a gut feeling. As soon as we got there, we spoke to the three kids. They understood."
I’m trying not to laugh
Prolly lucky for the teacher they weren’t singing “Don’t Stand So Close To Me” by the Police...
When I was high school, I worked at a grocery store. After close every night, we’d take turns singing over the loudspeaker. The guys who worked in the produce and deli sections in the back of the store used to get a kick out of that. I’d usually break into “The LOOOVEEE BOAT...soon will be making another run...”
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Welcome to the jungle
We got fun ‘n’ games
We got everything you want
Honey we know the names
We are the people that can find
Whatever you may need
If you got the money honey
We got your disease
Chorus:
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your shun n,n,n,n,,n,n,,n,n,n,,n,n,,n knees, knees
I wanna watch you bleed
Welcome to the jungle
We take it day by day
If you want it you’re gonna bleed
But it’s the price you pay
And you’re a very sexy girl
That’s very hard to please
You can taste the bright lights
But you won’t get them for free
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Feel my, my, my serpentine
I, I wanna hear you scream
Welcome to the jungle
It gets worse here everyday
Ya learn ta live like an animal
In the jungle where we play
If you got a hunger for what you see
You’ll take it eventually
You can have anything you want
But you better not take it from me
Chorus
And when you’re high you never
Ever want to come down, so down, so down, so down YEAH!
You know where you are
You’re in the jungle baby
You’re gonna die
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your shu n,n,n,,n,n,,n,n,n,,n,n,,n,n,,n knees, knees
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Feel my, my, my serpentine
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your shun n,n,n,n,,n,n,,n,n,,n,n,,n.n, knees, knees
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your
It’s gonna bring you down!
Ha!
How about these lyrics? “You’re so vain, you probably think this song is about you, about you”!
Sounds like the makings of a funny little Readers Digest story to me.
A century ago ‘School Days’ would have been enough to do it.
Or “Every Breath You Take.”
On the darker side, what's with the cops always making someone lie face down on the ground? Especially when they are cuffed and no obvious threat?
Worse, Dope Stars Inc, “Kiss”.
Or even better, Love/Hate “Spinning Wheel”.
Teach would’ve had a stroke.
She would have really been offended if “Big Butted Woman” was played.
Amateurs. Sung correctly, the words are unintelligible.
I wonder if that teacher thought for just one second, “Wouldn’t it be nice if I had a gun for protection?”
I’m sort of amazed these kids even knew who Guns and Roses are/were - I was still in high school when that song came out!
I wasn’t even born yet when Iron Maiden put out ‘Live After Death’ in summer of 1985. I came into the world in October. Steve Harris says it’s scary there are fans of such an age that they weren’t alive when their first album was released in 1980.
Heh, good point. Some of my favorite Stones and Zeppelin albums pre-date me by at least a couple of years.
Awesome!
I sing badly. Been asked not to sing anymore, but never had the police called on me.
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