[Ironsight]

About five minutes ago, the lockdown just ended. I heard a knife was involved, but that's pretty much all I know. I got to spend half an hour sitting in front of my teachers desk furious over the fact that I was spending my last moments locked in a classroom, and trying to ignore the constant chatter of the rest of my idiot classmates talking despite the no-talking rule encouraged during a lockdown.
At least something exciting finaly happened at school.

Really though, a knife? That's not really anything to worry about.

So, how has your day been so far?

[Gio]

Sounds like fun. We had something similar happen when I was a senior in high school. the kid I am talking about did however bring a gun instead of a knife.

[Ironsight]

Apparently the whole knife thing didn't even happen on campus. It was a couple blocks away actually.
On another note, we were in the middle of notes when it happened :silence:
And I didn't like that class :P

[Someone Else]

Two years ago somebody was stabbed on my shool's campus by a kid from a different school and we were on lockdown in homeroom the whole school day.

At least I had some good friends in that class, and the teacher was cool. I happened to not bring my DS and forgot my cell phone that day though...

[Toasty]

That sucks. Never been in a lockdown, but there was recently some shootings around the county I'm in. I heard rumors that someone got shot at the local Wal Mart, but I didn't hear any actual news about it, so I'm assuming it was just a rumor.

Silly gang initiations. Everyone knows that if you're gonna shoot somebody, you do it where there aren't a bunch of people and dozens of cameras around.

[Someone Else]

It was kinda exciting, different at least. My friends and I joke about calling someone up to stab somebody on or near our campus so we can get another lockdown if we have a test that day that we don't want to take. =P

[Mallick]

Miley Cyrus, on Mar 27 2009, 12:51 PM, said:

Really though, a knife? That's not really anything to worry about.

They don't need to be reloaded, they don't have a chance of jamming..

[Ironsight]

Yeah, but 30 bodies versus one knife...

[Mallick]

30 bodies versus one gun?

[Ironsight]

A standard handgun usually has 12 rounds to a magazine.
With little practice, a person can eject the empty magazine and insert a full one in under three seconds.
That's 24 shots. Even if you're a terrible shot (the rooms aren't even that big), that's enough to take out half the classroom (or if you're smart, anyone who decides to be a hero and charges you) and leave everyone else pissing themselves in fear.

If you run out of ammo, you can still pistol-whip people, but I guess at that point it's the same as having a knife...

Although I can see why using a knife would be better. One could just wait until the person has emptied his magazine, then tackle the guy as he's reloading.
A knife eliminates this, but as I said, it's you with a knife against 30 people of varying physical fitness. You're going to get tired eventually...

[Nosferatu]

I thought this was the Relationships topic for a second by that post.

[Mallick]

lol

[Split Infinity]

Someone Else, on Mar 28 2009, 10:32 AM, said:

At least I had some good friends in that class, and the teacher was cool. I happened to not bring my DS and forgot my cell phone that day though...

They let you bring your DS to school?

Fffff--

[Someone Else]

Not EXACTLY... it depends on which teacher you're trying to play it in front of and how/when you're trying to play it.

In homeroom they really don't care what you do since there's generally nothing going on.

As long as you don't stab or shoot anyone of course.

[Toasty]

Lawl.

Most teachers at my school will let you listen to music while you're working, and some will just let you do whatever during the last part of class where most teachers give you time to do homework.

But seriously, if we spend nearly half the class period doing homework, why the hell do we have four one and a half hour periods instead of six one hour periods? At least then people would actually get to take all the classes that they wanted to take.

[Split Infinity]

Well, my homeroom is just a five-minute rollcall so.

We're not meant to bring any gadgets at all because we're supposed to spend our free time studying, seeing as that's 'why we're at school'. Though everyone's been secretly bringing their iPhones since one kid figured out how to tap into the school Wi-Fi. :D

[Toasty]

It ain't that hard if the school's WiFi uses WEP encryption.

[Split Infinity]

Yeah, he just had to figure out the password and set it to a certain port or something.

[Golden Legacy]

My high school tried to ban mp3 players as part of a citywide provision, as well as to keep cell phones out of sight. During the assembly as the principle was citing these new rules, a kid played his cell phone ringtone, and a few others plugged in speakers on full volume and blasted it into the entire auditorium.

[Split Infinity]

^ Now if I had my own seal of approval...