this is america?

[Popinjay]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/burrito_lockdown

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. All over a giant burrito.

Someone called authorities Thursday after seeing a boy carrying something long and wrapped into Marshall Junior High.

The drama ended two hours later when the suspicious item was identified as a 30-inch burrito filled with steak, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and jalapenos and wrapped inside tin foil and a white T-shirt.

"I didn't know whether to laugh or cry," school Principal Diana Russell said.

[kerssens]

30 inch burrito??!!??...I'll skip the obligatory joke about bombs and burritos.

[tbach24]

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Holy crap

[daryn]

not surprising when you consider several schools have been shot up. 30 inch burrito? i bet he was carrying it as you'd carry a shotgun. imagine if it was a shotgun and he blew some kids away.. then the guy watching came out and was like, "yeah i was gonna stop him but i figured it was just a 30 inch burrito"

[tbach24]

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"yeah i was gonna stop him but i figured it was just a 30 inch burrito"

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This thread already has made me laugh twice. Good points tho daryn

[Popinjay]

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not surprising when you consider several schools have been shot up. 30 inch burrito? i bet he was carrying it as you'd carry a shotgun. imagine if it was a shotgun and he blew some kids away.. then the guy watching came out and was like, "yeah i was gonna stop him but i figured it was just a 30 inch burrito"

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that sounds reasonable but then again it doesn't

[daryn]

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not surprising when you consider several schools have been shot up. 30 inch burrito? i bet he was carrying it as you'd carry a shotgun. imagine if it was a shotgun and he blew some kids away.. then the guy watching came out and was like, "yeah i was gonna stop him but i figured it was just a 30 inch burrito"

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that sounds reasonable but then again it doesn't

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precisely. that's the kind of stuff that happens when you have something as unreasonable as schools getting shot up in the first place.

[SpearsBritney]

...and then the boy with the 30 inch burrito was shot and killed by a stundent wielding a shotgun.

[Eurotrash]

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The burrito was part of Morrissey's extra-credit assignment to create commercial advertising for a product.

"We had to make up a product and it could have been anything. I made up a restaurant that specialized in oddly large burritos," Morrissey said.


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at least if this restaurant gets off the ground we'll have something to replace all the Chipotle posts.

[Blarg]

Americans love violence, and police love going paramilitary and getting to play with their toys. I'm glad no one got shot, and hope burritos haven't been criminalized yet.

[jakethebake]

Now I'm hungry.