Brickbat: AAAARRRGGH!

If you are holding a Pirate Week celebration, you might expect someone to show up dressed as a pirate. But at least one employee at North Carolina's Richlands Elementary School didn't. That employee saw another worker dressed as a pirate and reported a suspicious person. That led to officials locking down not only the elementary school but all schools in the area.

Comments

[UnCivilServant]

So when is the person who reported it going to be institutionalized for paranoia? Or were they actually dumb enough to believe that modern pirates dressed like their 17th century counterparts? Is that then grounds to fire them for gross incompetence?

[Rich]

If a person is sufficiently, um, civic-minded to report a "suspicious person" surely they would be willing to undergo a psychiatric exam and to face in court the person they reported.

[jmomls]

*Or were they actually dumb enough to believe that modern pirates dressed like their 17th century counterparts?*

I'd bet that the teacher's costume in question totally sucked and probably looked more like an Oakland Raider fan than actual 'raider', in which case, I'd *totally* put the school on lock down.

[Rev-Match]

The incident was investigated by school staff and law enforcement agencies.

I can't help but wonder how much this costs to the taxpayers. I mean, what kind of man-hours could actually be spent when you could simply look at the person dressed as a pirate and conclude: "Hey guys, it's just Julie getting into the spirit of pirate week." Wtf kind of "investigation" actually needs to occur?

[UnCivilServant]

They have to justify their budget and terrorize the children into compliance.

[Jerryskids]

Damn, and here I saw a skeevy pack of wild redskins at FedEx Field last night and I said nothing!

[UnCivilServant]

You let the potatos go? What sort of Pirate are you?

[Radioactive]

a salad pirate?

[UnCivilServant]

Have you never heard of potato salad? Would you leave out the rum too? Have you ever had rummy potatos? What did they taste like?

[Fist of Etiquette]

When I was in school, the teacher showed us Captain Phillips. We were on lockdown for a full week.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

They showed us 'Red Dawn' and then we went out hunting for Russians.

[Florida Man]

Did they mention Canada in red dawn? I Remember the billion 800 million screaming Chinese.

[An Innocent Man]

One of my favorite lines ever.

[Florida Man]

*innocent man tosses whiskey into fire*

[Rufus J. Firefly]

No mention of Canada.

But it was IMPLIED!

[SugarFree]

I hate to think this of our gentlemanly neighbors to the north, but I imagine most of you would just sit back, laugh, and wait for the Cubans to finish us off.

[Agammamon]

The would just retreat 5 miles from the border into territory more cold and dangerous than siberia during the winter and wait for the cubans to freeze to death.

[Anomalous]

I am the captain now!

[An Innocent Man]

Does a modern day pirate carry an ARRRRRRRRRRRRR-15?

[Radioactive]

A vast c of me harties will avenge me.

[Swiss Servator, Grundgesetz!]

*narrows gaze*

[Agammamon]

They carry AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRPG's

[Radioactive]

shiver me timbers!!!

[JW]

Remember the days when idiots like this were rarely let into positions of authority and people didn't completely lose their shit at the merest whiff of risk, no matter how unlikely or remote that risk was?

Like, you know, a swashbuckling pirate raid?

Yeah, me too. Good times.

[jmomls]

*Remember the days when idiots like this*

Remember the days when teachers and other professionals dressed like...professionals?

[Rich]

A costume-wearing staff member was apparently the person behind a case of mistaken identity that prompted the lockdown

"Mistaken identity"?

Oh, well -- YA reason to ban Halloween.

[Radioactive]

mistaken for who? fucking Blackbeard?

[Mongo]

It happened to be Snitch Like a Stasi Ratfuck Day coincidentally.

[userve32]

Sounds liek a solid plan to me dude.

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