I suppose it’s a plan. Just a questionable one
In case of school intruder, hurl a can of peas at them:
You’ve likely heard of students bringing canned food to school for food drives, but have you ever heard of bringing a canned food item to school for safety?
A letter sent to parents of students at one school in Chambers County requested just that — students were asked to arm themselves with an eight ounce canned food item.
Though it sounds odd, administrators believe the practice could catch potential intruders off guard, possibly even knocking him or her out until police arrive.
It’s better than nothing. But someone armed would probably be better. But be careful, those cans for weapons may soon violate zero tolerance policies.
January 13th, 2015 at 1:50 pm
Kevlar back packs?
How about “Bring your parents handguns to school (then surrender them to one of OUR “responsible adults”) day”, so mummy or daddy have the same
self/family defense “options” at home as school children?
January 13th, 2015 at 1:58 pm
Sorry my arm today probably couldn’t do much damage with a hurled can good.
Now pick the skinny asthmatic per-pubecent Little Weer’d…
How about just lift that “Gun Free Zone” sign so the school becomes as tempting a target as the public park across the street.
January 13th, 2015 at 2:05 pm
This reminds me of our “active shooter” training when I worked at a major med center. One of the advised actions was to use improvised (primitive) weapons against a criminal perp with a gun. But guns were banned for that purpose and the posssession of guns was a supposed “warning sign” of a potential “active shooter”. This is the utter insanity and evilof political-correctness where an improvised primitive weapon is OK, but not the best and most effective modern weapon!
January 13th, 2015 at 2:12 pm
Doesn’t bringing the canned food for the express purpose of using it as a weapon trigger some kind of zero tolerance policy?
January 13th, 2015 at 2:34 pm
Of course, Ken! And what about fists? Shouldn’t schools be fist-free zones too? But then, just maybe that rule could be waived should a mass-murdering perp ignore the “no-gun” signs and enter the school with evil intentions. Then, and only then, would fists be an acceptable defense against the shooter, but no dangerous sharp objects!
January 13th, 2015 at 2:38 pm
I wonder if they have canned pea practice to improve their aim.
January 13th, 2015 at 3:02 pm
It might at least make things peas-ful again.
At the high school I went to can goods would have just been used in the socks instead of locks.
January 13th, 2015 at 4:51 pm
So an admission that “gun free school zones” don’t work. Then, as a result of that failure, we tell Middle School kids to line up in front of an active shooter and throw cans at him, thus making the students easy targets.
But heavens, no- can’t arm the teachers.
January 13th, 2015 at 5:25 pm
So it seems that whirled peas are the means, not the end.
January 13th, 2015 at 5:32 pm
But no canned ham. That might be offensive to some terrorists.
January 13th, 2015 at 5:45 pm
Guys, all they are saying is to give peas a chance.
January 13th, 2015 at 6:07 pm
Meet firepower through superior peas.
January 13th, 2015 at 6:17 pm
Are the children’s arms and cans now considered to be pea-shooters?
January 13th, 2015 at 6:47 pm
Maybe they can use a pillow case with soda cans ala Sean Penn in Bad Boys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPoxee46S4s
–Greg
January 13th, 2015 at 8:18 pm
DM’s right… They’re admitting failure without admitting it…
January 13th, 2015 at 8:18 pm
Upvote to Mr. Chubbins.
The slingshot guy has the perfect school weapon. Magazine fed, repeating, pump action pencil shooter. And it would make a good craft project too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYJ2zj1SB5Y
January 13th, 2015 at 9:04 pm
It might be a parochial school. Upgrade the pencil shooter to fire rulers.
January 13th, 2015 at 9:10 pm
Alabama’s definition of a deadly weapon includes a can. When one kids throws a can at another kid and causes brain damage, the teacher at fault should go to prison.
(7) DEADLY WEAPON. A firearm or anything manifestly designed, made, or adapted for the purposes of inflicting death or serious physical injury. The term includes, but is not limited to, a pistol, rifle, or shotgun; or a switch-blade knife, gravity knife, stiletto, sword, or dagger; or any billy, black-jack, bludgeon, or metal knuckles. – See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/alcode/13A/1/13A-1-2#sthash.MWRoR8Iu.dpuf
January 13th, 2015 at 10:02 pm
Well maybe not, dustydog. Not if its common, day-to-day, ordinary use is not as a weapon. For example, straight razors have been ruled not to be deadly weapons, under the criminal definition, because their primary purpose is to shave people not slit their throats.
January 13th, 2015 at 10:20 pm
At that point, you might as well send your kid to school with a study all metal masterlock combo lock in on pocket of his backpack, and a two or three foot length of 550 cord with a small loop tied in one end in another pocket. Neither are weapons, but when you put them together, that’s a hell of a lot better than canned produce. Then you just have to practice a bit so you don’t whack yourself with a high speed chunk of metal on a string.
January 13th, 2015 at 10:37 pm
Visualize Hurled Peas!
January 14th, 2015 at 2:25 am
Mike McDaniel has suggested two gallons of cooking oil instead. Remove the lids, point them out of the door, and stomp on the jugs. Then lock the door. The oil will make the floor too slippery to stand, protecting those inside a lot better than hurled peas.
January 14th, 2015 at 4:00 am
It sounds like the school administrators have watched Crocodile Dundee too many times.
January 14th, 2015 at 8:19 am
Dave, the cooking oil is a great plan! Unless the shooters have a device that lets them shoot projectiles over short distances; then the kids are screwed.
January 14th, 2015 at 8:53 am
“Mr. Chubbins Says:
January 13th, 2015 at 5:45 pm
Guys, all they are saying is to give peas a chance.”
That is the funniest thing I’ve read this week. Hall of Fame comment.
Serious note: a friend living in England told me that everybody he knows keeps some form of club behind the front door: a cricket bat, a broom handle, something. Sensible people arm themselves with something.
Back to some fun. And, when I was in school, the boys were expert peashooter marksmen. A chewed paper wad substituted nicely for ammo, and the Bic pen barrel was excellent. Yes, it did cause some trouble, but no one got sent to counseling.
January 14th, 2015 at 10:31 am
http://www.FASTERSavesLives.org
Ohio schools can get real, effective, life saving training at no cost to them.
JLE
January 14th, 2015 at 11:12 am
Hey, at least they aren’t telling the kids to cower in place. Active resistance instead of passive submittal is an sea change in education.
I’d still want some teachers armed – and active.
January 14th, 2015 at 11:31 am
I remember my tall, black, 60-ish high school principal, a WWII vet, bouncing a kid off his office wall with a backhand after the kid sassed him. Things were different then. But canned goods for self defense now?
Eventually someone like Colonel Black in Catch 22 is going to appear and holler the equivalent of “Gimme eats!” and all this foolishness will stop.
January 14th, 2015 at 11:42 am
Come on y’all, they’re just trying to appease the antis:)
Greg, Sean Penn won’t need soda cans, he can just use his sculpture:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/celebrity/sean-penn-i-dont-miss-my-gun-collection/ar-AA88gWX?ocid=mailsignout
Whaddaya bet his bodyguards have one of those “cowardly killing machines” in his pocket? Just another arrogant brainless selfish publicity whore.
OTOH, if I could get a mil and a half for my stuff all welded together I could buy me some really nice stuff.
January 14th, 2015 at 12:59 pm
If our children are to protect themselves from armed mass murderers by throwing a can of peas, then according to “the equal protection of the laws” (14th Amendment) so should our “leaders” who keep them in “gun-free” zones be relegated to the same! After all they are OUR EMPLOYEES so we should make the rules for them!!! Otherwise they have NO BUSINESS telling us, THEIR EMPLOYERS, how to protect ourselves and our children!!!
January 15th, 2015 at 1:22 am
Where do you get 8oz cans of peas? All I have ever seen have been 16oz. If I send my kid with one will he be arrested for having more then 10oz of peas?