Seems like a really good prank to me:
ED HILLE / Inquirer Staff Photographer Eighty-five “full-blown live chickens” - identified later today as Rhode Island Reds - were discovered roaming the halls of Northeast Philadelphia High School this morning as faculty arrived before dawn.
“They’ve created quite a mess,” said Fernando Gallard, spokesman for the school district. “It’s going to take us at least a day to clean up.”
The flock was let into the school on Cottman Avenue over the weekend.
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Video surveillance shows that multiple culprits gained entry into the school about 9:30 p.m. Sunday to release the hens and spread chicken feed on the floors, Gallard said.
Classic. That is a great one. If this were the 1950s, that would be that. There wouldn’t be anything thought of this other than it was a great prank.
But what bothers me is this paragraph:
Any break-in is supposed to trigger an alarm, but the caper was not discovered until 5 a.m. by a janitor, Gallard said. How the perpetrators got into the building and why the alarm apparently did not go off is still under investigation.
Let me take this time to remind you of what Osama bin Laden and Co. have said about our school children:
In June 2002, its spokesman, Suleiman Abu Gheith, published an article on the alneda website that claimed: “We have the right to kill four million Americans — 2 million of them children — and to exile twice as many and wound and cripple hundreds of thousands.â€
If a couple of high school pranksters can get 50 live chickens into a high school without tripping any alarms, why should we think we could not suffer a Beslan in America?
Instead of sneaking in chickens, guns and bombs are sneaked in, and instead of chicken feed on the floor, you have shell casings and det cord.
People seem to have become lax. They better wake up before children are slaughtered. Not my words, threats or actions. They have done it before and have vowed to do it again. All they need is the opportunity.
