From AP, via Fark. TWAT continues to protect our airports from swarthy, t-shirt wearing Americans, and our schools from Irish-American eighth graders carrying oversized lunch foods.
CLOVIS, N.M. – A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school…
The drama ended two hours later when the suspicious item was identified as a 30-inch burrito filled with steak, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and jalapeños…
After the lockdown was lifted but before the burrito was identified as the culprit, parents pulled 75 students out of school, Russell said…
“The kid was sitting there as I’m describing this (report of a student with a suspicious package) and he’s thinking, ‘Oh, my gosh, they’re talking about my burrito.‘”
In eighth grade, that’s all anybody can talk about, Mike.
But could it be the revenge of the illegals? Was poor Mike just a simple stooge in a Mexican bomb plot?
[...] Oooooh, I just know all my friends will be up for this challenge. Privacy International’s offering a small roundup of awards for stupid security procedures, whether at the high school, the garbage cans, the airport, or just at the border between the US and Manitoba which is patrolled on the US side by armed militiamen, and on the Canadian side by two red cones, which represents, by the way, a doubling of security on Canada’s part. [...]