NM: Burrito causes gun scare in school

[Erich]

http://www.kobtv.com/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=18803&cat=HOME

Burrito causes gun scare at Clovis school
Loaded with meat and beans, a long burrito prompted police to lock down a Clovis junior high school.
Last Update: 04/28/2005 5:26:52 PM
By: Todd Dukart

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.

 

[FPrice]

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.

Sounds like an "assault burrito" to me.

Better call SWAT, it's almost their lunch time.

 

[Alex45ACP]

Now that's funny.

 

[TXatty]

Sounds like an IED (Improvised Explosive Device) to me.

 

[Gun God]

Ha! A light machine burrito! Loaded with a 150 bean belt.

 

[armoredman]

Chemical agents have been employed!

 

[walking arsenal]

would that be an offensive weapon?

 

[Nio]

There oughta be a law...

Who needs a burrito that long? They ought to be banned...

Nio

 

[Rebar]

The real danger begins after it's eaten.

 

[Watchman]

Nobody "needs" a burrito that long...

Just look at all the trouble it caused...

A 2 and half foot long burrito is unnessecary when a couple of one footers would do just as well. That 'long range" burrito is a public nuisance. It is definatley dangerous to the public...

There ought to be a law...

 

[kbheiner7]

What a sad, sad commentary on our society.

 

[bad LT]

A two and a half foot long Burrito full of beans is a dangerous weapon.

 

[another okie]

Was it a high-capacity burrito? Did it have a silencer?

 

[dasmi]

But the student came forward first, admitting he had what they were looking for – a two-and-a-half-foot-long burrito.

I want to shake that kid's hand. That is a man's burrito.

 

[El Tejon]

Anyone else thinking about the skit in "Monty Python"?

You then shoot the perpetrator and then eat his burrito, thus completely disarming him! Like that? I learned that in Malaysia.

What about pointed sticks?

 

[GRB]

I see the humor in it all but I have to wonder about the panicked whacko who called it in as a gun! Then I have to wonder, what would have happened had the poice arrived and this kid lifted the burrito to show them. Scary thoughts.

They ought to make the 911 caller eat it all, then lock him/her in a fairly small closet for about 3 or 4 hours so that he/she can contemplate the before and after possibilities, all the while enjoying the aromatic fragrances that are bound to bloom in the closet.

 

[Edmond]

Burritos like that are banned in Chicago.

 

[wmenorr67]

But it was for the children.

 

[Alex45ACP]

The real danger begins after it's eaten.

haha

 

[mr.trooper]

A 2 1/2 Foot Burrito? Manufacturors shouldnt be allowed to offer such things. "WE ALL KNOW THAT SUCH THINGS ARE MARKETED TO THE CRIMINAL ELEMENT."

 

[MICHAEL T]

I bet if they were looking for donuts they would have found them.
What is this country coming to everybody jumping and calling cops over anything except a real crime. Then its I didn't see anything officer.

 

[FPrice]

What a sad, sad commentary on our society.

Which, the actions related in the story or our comments???

 

[Vernal45]

It could have been worse, the LEO's could have seized the Burrito, for the children, and ate...I mean disposed of it.

 

[akviper]

We need federal legislation banning horrible objects such as this immediately. What if a student attempts to walk into a school with a trombone case or other object that could conceal a weapon of mass destruction. How about no objects over 4 inches in length within 10 miles of any school or building containing a child. We could all sleep better at night if this legislation was passed.

 

[Cosmoline]

You may laugh, but I've experienced some Burritos that should have been regulated as Class II destructive devices.