Posted on 04/28/2005 5:05:20 PM PDT by 2Am4Sure
It wasn’t a gun that caused police to lock down Marshall Junior High School in Clovis. It was a burrito.
Police locked the school down after a citizen saw a student walking into school with a long, skinny object wrapped in a white cloth. He thought it was a gun and called police.
Officers searched for the student while the school was on lockdown. But the student came forward first, admitting he had what they were looking for – a two-and-a-half-foot-long burrito.
The student had taken the burrito, wrapped in foil and a white cloth, to present in a culinary career class. It was loaded – with meat and beans.
Police called the incident a good exercise for all of the officers who responded to the school.
One observer joked that with the right combination of ingredients, the burrito could have been a deadly weapon.
Talk about lack of effort for one's schoolwork.
Run away...run away...its a burrito..OMG!
Well I hope they expelled the little jerk. How dare he bring anything to school that might be construed as a gun! They do have a zero tolerance policy, don't they?
I understand the concern. My husband and burritos are a deadly combination.
Hey, in the proper, er, hands, a burrito can be a deadly weapon!
make a run for the border.
is that a chulupa in your pocket or are you just robbing me?
or, Is that a burrito in your pocket or are you happy to see me?
Potentially annoying in the extreme. Deadly, I don't think so. I will leave it to someone else to come up with the "silent-but-deadly" bit.
Meat AND beans, huh? Could contribute to global warming in more ways than one.
I wore camo and brought a large bag with paintball gun and gear to my community college once for a speech class. No one even looked at me twice as I walked into the building... no kind of dress surprises people anymore.
I don't think I'd like to try that now though...
Longjack, something funny for once, enjoy!
What this country has come to. Before I bought my first car I sometimes drove my dad's truck to school (he was an engineer for an oil company and had a company truck assigned to him).
In a gun rack just inside the rear window were a Mini-14 and a 7mm Mauser. In the glove box was an M1911. There were probably no less than 100 rounds in the truck for each weapon.
Not only that, there were at least 20 other trucks in the school parking lots with weapons in them. Some of them owned by teachers or coaches.
Can you imagine the squeals and howls of rage if the same were to happen today?
This is unbelieveable!!!!!
Every kid ever born onthe Eastern New Mexico plains has cut their teeth on a firearm.
Just great. A burrito causes hysteria in New Mexico while a 10 year old in Portland, Or. carries a loaded .38cal. revolver around school for half a day before school officals find out(the kid threatened to shoot anybody who told on him).
When burritos are outlawed, only outlaws will have burritos.
If every high school male with a long skinny thing in his pants was expelled, we would only have girls schools for cryin' out loud.
Almostlike a bird flying over the White House causing an evacuation.
They showed that thing on the 5:00 news. It was wrapped in foil and covered with a white kitchen towel. I could see where someone could mistake it for a gun.
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