krome2ez Posted January 31, 2013 Report Share Posted January 31, 2013 Boy's Nerf gun comment locks down school By New York Post January 31, 2013 6:40 am A Jittery officials put a Bronx elementary school into lockdown yesterday after an aide overheard a student say "something about a gun" - which turned out to be only a toy Nerf gizmo he had at home. The school worker heard the 12-year-old boy talking to a classmate about the "gun" at PS 4 at 1701 Fulton Ave. in the Morrisania section at 8:15 a.m., cops said. The worker alerted school officials, and they immediately closed down the campus as heavily armed police swarmed the building. The boy later told cops he was talking about his Nerf toy, which was at home. Even though it turned out to be a false alarm, parents rushed to the school, fearing the worst during the two-hour ordeal. "It's nerve-racking. There [were] police officers here with assault rifles, and there [were] helicopters flying around," said Jacklyn Williams, mother of a 9-year-old student. --- Originally published by Jessica Simeone, and Frank Rosario. © 2013 The New York Post. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved. http://www.gopusa.com/news/2013/01/31/boys-nerf-gun-comment-locks-down-school/?subscriber=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vietnam1969 Posted January 31, 2013 Report Share Posted January 31, 2013 Things like this is getting way out of line. Wonder if the word, Gun will be removed from the dictionary. Sad but true. This country is getting a bad rap from our own government and especially the media. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattyangel Posted January 31, 2013 Report Share Posted January 31, 2013 OH NOOO, not the nerf gun too. So unfair, such ignorance in our government. Not scratching the Nerf gun off the Christmas, Birthday list just yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bamagirl Posted January 31, 2013 Report Share Posted January 31, 2013 OH NOOO, not the nerf gun too. So unfair, such ignorance in our government. Not scratching the Nerf gun off the Christmas, Birthday list just yet. ;)/> The Hello Kitty bubble blower got a little girl suspended last week, my little girl had one last summer... SMH at what the world is coming too!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontlop Posted January 31, 2013 Report Share Posted January 31, 2013 SO the teacher was an idiot and intentionally made it into more than it was for political gain .. im surprised the teacher didnt tackle the kid and hog tie him .. i guess the teacher felt they only way to get this child under control was to call the police . a normal human being would of looked at the child and asked wht he was talking about and done their job whether saying your not allowed to say the word gun in school or what ever . but this teacher is obviously a second amendment hater..a toy nerf gun at home is al it was .. not an assult rifle ..the teacher never investigated and disaplinary action should be taken against the teacher .. and the child should be apologized to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DinarMillionaire Posted January 31, 2013 Report Share Posted January 31, 2013 People with this sort of knee jerk reaction should be deemed mentally unstable, fired and charged for all cost incurred by the emergency response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smee2 Posted January 31, 2013 Report Share Posted January 31, 2013 Unfortunately the world is full of idiots. Some of them who don't listen or hear a comment completely and will make an assumption ... this being the result of an idot making an assumption. Some of them will be, perhaps unconsciously, seeking their own fifteen minutes of fame by being the one to report something that will get everyone off their butts and running in circles. And some of them will, for the fun of it, take an unimportant little word, or phrase, or complete sentence sometimes, and report it in such a way as to make themselves seem like the hero. What gets to me is that the people coming to scoop up a kid with a nerf gun, swarmed into, around, and most likely over, a school full of kids, while armed to the teeth. Can you say idiotic? I would assume that registered gun owners, and carriers, the ones who want guns to remain a part of what they perceive as their rights as Americans, those people would be damned sure there was a problem worth the wearing, loading, or even pointing the guns forward where someone could be in the line of accidental fire. It is the "official" gun toters who, in this instance and others like it, will, warranted or not, charge in wearing body armour, and carrying loaded rifles aimed where they are going, and want us to think they are solving the problem with the greatest of care. Yeah ... right! Not only the teacher who reported it, but also the principal or other staff to whom he reported it, should have done their own homework, and investigated to see what the boy may have said, and if there was a gun on the premises, or just what was really going on before calling in the troops. Fortunately, in this case, there was no threat, unless you think being hit in the face with a sponge a threat. smee2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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