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Safety First!
Apr. 25th, 2007 06:36 pmWhile walking back to the staff room after a class:
Mr. S: Did you know sixth period is cancelled today? We have a...hm, not a fire drill.
Me: Hm? Not a fire drill?
Mr. S: Well, the students will run away from a bad man in the gym. Like a drill. A police officer will dress up.
Me: Say what now?
This conversation gave me the impression that the students would be running around the gym en masse while some dubious guy in a ski mask chased after them while the teachers looked on and told them to infuse more terror into their screams. You know, like a proper drill.
Well, it turned out that it was only the student council who got to run away while everyone else just watched. Too bad. But the police officer had an awesome criminal outfit: red toque, sunglasses, surgical mask (the kind that Japanese people wear when they're sick), track suit, a lab coat over the track suit, a baseball bat (the end was padded so that he couldn't accidentally kill anyone), and the piece de resistance, a giant fake aluminum foil knife straight out of Otakon 6.
So here's what happened. The student council were sitting on their desks on stage while one of the teachers conducted a pretend class. When the "criminal" showed up, yelling "HORYAAAAAA~!!" and whacking his baseball on the ground, the teacher valiantly wrestled with him while the students valiantly knocked over their desks (presumably to hamper the bad guy) and ran away like Brave Brave Sir Robin himself. Hurrah! That'll stop the bad guys!
After that, some chick nattered on for half an hour about some stuff I couldn't understand, though I think the basic message was "run away, stupid." I was kind of too busy dreaming up excuses for not working on my![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
blind_go* fic and mentally composing this LJ entry to bother listening to her. Oh, and she and her male assistant got a couple students to come up and help them demonstrate how to assault people who attack you.
I don't think this presentation at my school had anything to do with the Virginia Tech shootings, because apparently the police come and do this every year. But the timing is eerie.
*hey, does this count as a blind_go panic entry?
Mr. S: Did you know sixth period is cancelled today? We have a...hm, not a fire drill.
Me: Hm? Not a fire drill?
Mr. S: Well, the students will run away from a bad man in the gym. Like a drill. A police officer will dress up.
Me: Say what now?
This conversation gave me the impression that the students would be running around the gym en masse while some dubious guy in a ski mask chased after them while the teachers looked on and told them to infuse more terror into their screams. You know, like a proper drill.
Well, it turned out that it was only the student council who got to run away while everyone else just watched. Too bad. But the police officer had an awesome criminal outfit: red toque, sunglasses, surgical mask (the kind that Japanese people wear when they're sick), track suit, a lab coat over the track suit, a baseball bat (the end was padded so that he couldn't accidentally kill anyone), and the piece de resistance, a giant fake aluminum foil knife straight out of Otakon 6.
So here's what happened. The student council were sitting on their desks on stage while one of the teachers conducted a pretend class. When the "criminal" showed up, yelling "HORYAAAAAA~!!" and whacking his baseball on the ground, the teacher valiantly wrestled with him while the students valiantly knocked over their desks (presumably to hamper the bad guy) and ran away like Brave Brave Sir Robin himself. Hurrah! That'll stop the bad guys!
After that, some chick nattered on for half an hour about some stuff I couldn't understand, though I think the basic message was "run away, stupid." I was kind of too busy dreaming up excuses for not working on my
blind_go* fic and mentally composing this LJ entry to bother listening to her. Oh, and she and her male assistant got a couple students to come up and help them demonstrate how to assault people who attack you. I don't think this presentation at my school had anything to do with the Virginia Tech shootings, because apparently the police come and do this every year. But the timing is eerie.
*hey, does this count as a blind_go panic entry?
