Teacher calls police after Guns N' Roses karaoke scare

AP ^ | 12/14/07

[Mr. Brightside]

Teacher calls police after Guns N' Roses karaoke scare

School custodian's rendition of 'Welcome to the Jungle' prompts police call

2 hours, 54 minutes ago

ROXBURY, Conn. - State police say the 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.

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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 for about 15 minutes while police investigated. They didn't realize anyone else was in the school at the time.

[cripplecreek]

Welcome to the jungle baby. LOL

[Badeye]

Gee, and to think my senior year the cheerleaders got busted ans suspended for playing Alvin and the Chipmonks over the PA system....

[weegee]

State police say the 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.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Remind me never to sing “Welcome To The Jungle” in public...

[weegee]

After 20 years, this is officially “oldies music”, no?

[weegee]

While in a washroom or school.

[Mr. Brightside]

Remind me never to sing “Welcome To The Jungle” in public...

And if you don't get arrested for intimidation, they'll get you on racial discrimination.

[weegee]

GUNS & ROSES?!!! I though to told you to BURN their records, Tipper.

[stm]

“Welcome to the joint” punk-ass and say hello to your new roommate, he likes them young.

[Badeye]

Tippsy couldn’t burn them, she was way too depressed....

[Mr. Brightside]

Reminds me of the Bowling for Soup song “When did Motley Crue become classic rock”?

[Mr. Brightside]

I though to told you to BURN their records, Tipper.

Is THAT how we got global warming?... burning records?

[weegee]

Calling a song a “classic” and a former “hit” are two different things.

[PeteB570]

Another school?

That must be the third one this week.

:-)

[CT-Freeper]

I can’t believe the police actually cuffed the kids.

I worked in a grocery store as a teen, and we always fooled around with the PA system after hours. It’s what they’re made for, isn’t it??

[Rb ver. 2.0]

The way this teacher responded it would have been interesting if boys had done Barry White karaoke instead.

[cripplecreek]

When I was a factory foreman we had a bunch of ex cons from a halfway house working in the shop. I used to page them by their prison numbers.

[RockinRight]

You have GOT to be kidding. Someone sings a 20 year old rock song and gets suspended?

[ShadowAce]

That’s just cold! LOL!

[linn37]

Thats what people get for being lousy singers.

[vetvetdoug]

This is what one gets when you have touchy feely liberal Democrat pussies as teachers.

[rockrr]

Well, I do recall a certain fourth-grader who was called into the Principals office. While waiting for Mrs. DeVries to return this self-same fourth-grader picked up the handset and started singing (I can’t get no) Satisfaction (which happened to be in current rotation at the time).

That fourth-grader didn’t know that the mic was live and being carried to every classroom in the school. Man, did that take a long time to live down!

[Trajan88]

Karaoke... GNR's "Out to Get Me" off of Appetite or anything off Slayer's "Seasons in the Abyss" disk... that will shake up Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.

No eyes / ears left unbleeding.

Rock, be rocked, or step aside (as Z-Rock's Mad Max Hammer and Bolt Dude use to say).

[max americana]

BY COINCIDENCE, I actually was listening to Paradise City while going to work. LOL

Cant blame the 911 caller, BUT then again singing “Welcome to the Jungle”? ...the kids must’ve really sucked with their AXL version.

[Larry Lucido]

Could have been worse. She could have mistaken it for singing.

[weegee]

The way this teacher responded it would have been interesting if boys had done Barry White karaoke instead.

"Let-t-t's git it on-n-n-n-n-n..."

[jmc813]

Calling a song a “classic” and a former “hit” are two different things.

C'mon, how can you say that Appetite is not one of the best overall albums of the last 30 years?

[MotleyGirl70]

Appitite for Destruction is one of my favorite hard rock CDs from the late 80s. I still remember where I was when I first heard "Welcome to the Jungle."

I was just thinking of this; Motley Crue's Too Fast For Love was released 26 years ago almost to the day and Girls, Girls, Girls is already 20 years old.

Seems like just yesterday when I heard them all for the first time. My, how time flies.

[RockinRight]

I was rockin' out to Shout at the Devil this morning.

[CodeToad]

ROTFLMAO!!!

We’ve become a nation of scaredy cats.

[CodeToad]

“The way this teacher responded it would have been interesting if boys had done Barry White karaoke instead.
“

Apparently, a lot of teachers do.

[Mr. Brightside]

Ping for the days of high school. (How could I forget you?)

[ConservativeStatement]

I heard it a few months ago on the local classic rock station and cringed (because of the time/years not the song). :-)

[ConservativeStatement]

What happened to “Smokin’ in the Boys’ Room”? /s

[rabidralph]

I was listening to Heart’s Greatest Hits and Aerosmith’s Pump today to and from work. That’s about 27 years ago for the former and 19 years for the latter. They just don’t make music like they used to.

[Bernard]

They should have done Louie Louie. Nobody ever understood those words anyway.

[537cant be wrong]

it just goes to show you, know your audience

[UCANSEE2]

Things like this are why we need to outlaw Karaoke!

[RobRoy]

That is one of the best “amateur captions” I’ve seen on this site!!! A salute you!

[Madame Dufarge]

"And the rockets' red blare

The bombs bursting in air"

I can't even imagine how these strange and unknown lyrics would have affected the teacher at the Free School.

[fella]

Gee, and to think my senior year the cheerleaders got busted ans suspended for playing Alvin and the Chipmonks over the PA system....

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