Tense situation at New Mexico junior high school
With all the hightened security concerns at American schools following incidents like school shootings and especially in the wake of the tragedy at Columbine High School, authorities were taking extreme precaution on April 29 at Marshall Junior High in Clovis, NM. Someone made a call to police when they saw a boy carrying a suspicious package into the school. The package was a long cylinder and was wrapped in tin foil and a white T-shirt. Police put armed officers on rooftops near the school, closed nearby streets and locked down the school. Parents descended upon the school after hearing a report on the radio. They were waiting together to hear any news regarding the safety of their children. It was a tense situation until the police could secure the school and give the ok to remove the lock down. As soon as it was lifted, parents pulled 75 students out of school. The school principal brought everyone in the school together in the auditorium to explain the situation. The suspicious package that was brought into the school was described to the students. Afterwards, an eighth-grade boy approached the principal saying "I think I'm the person they saw". The boy went on to explain that he brought a package similar to what was described to school that day as part of an extra-credit assignment to create commercial advertising for a product. The package did not contain a bomb, it was a giant burrito! He made the burrito as a product that a restaurant could sell marketing it as specializing in oddly large burritos. When the police saw the large burrito, everyone laughed in relief. When interviewed later, the boy said "Oh, and I have a new nickname now. It's burrito boy".
See the full AP article on this at the MSNBC web site. I heard the retelling of this story on the radio yesterday on one of those Paul Harvey type of programs. Fortunately this one was a happy if not funny ending. I think the giant burrito could have still been considered a bomb though especially for whoever ate the thing. Can you imagine the explosion after consuming that much meat and beans wrapped in a giant tortilla. Things that make you go hmmm...mahhahaha. : )
See the full AP article on this at the MSNBC web site. I heard the retelling of this story on the radio yesterday on one of those Paul Harvey type of programs. Fortunately this one was a happy if not funny ending. I think the giant burrito could have still been considered a bomb though especially for whoever ate the thing. Can you imagine the explosion after consuming that much meat and beans wrapped in a giant tortilla. Things that make you go hmmm...mahhahaha. : )
posted by whaaaat! at
7:45 AM
4 Comments:
What's this all about? Every place I have gone today the blogger has been blogging about something to eat. I'm supposed to be on a diet! This is not helping! Do you know what I'd give for one of those giant burritos about now?
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Joe, at 2:05 PM
joe go to taco bell. Clovis is a little town. That must have been huge news there.
~Jef
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Anonymous, at 2:20 PM
Burritos can certainly be an internal bomb, that's for sure!
By
Fred, at 2:35 PM
Fred's comment above is too funny. I remember hearing this story back when it happened. It does look like a suspicious object.
By
Bar L., at 3:37 PM
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