Back in
March I quoted a bit of The Daily Mash's spoof article on
traumatising lessons inspired by the real life staged shooting 'role-play' lesson at a school in Evesham, Worcestershire. At the time I said that Cracked.com probably had already pencilled it in for a place in
Seven Terrifying Lessons Your Child May Be Taught In A British School, and then promptly forgot all about it. In my inbox today was an email from a rellie back in the UK who, knowing I have a chuckle about this sort of thing, sent me this link to a Cracked article titled, '
8 Real Grade Schools That Went Completely Insane'. From #7 on their list:
Sometime around March this year, children ages 10 to 13 at the Blackminster Middle School in Evesham were rushed into the playground for what they assumed was a fire drill, when a masked gunman appeared out of nowhere and "shot dead" a popular science teacher.
Well, I wasn't far off. Incidentally, British schools are also at numbers 4, 3 and 1 on the list, meaning that they outnumbered the combined efforts of the USA and Australia's sole entry (#5 - locking up the special needs kids in a pen) by two to one.
Kind of makes you proud, doesn't it?
Angry_Exile 90p · 754 weeks ago
Anyway, JuliaM wrote:
My heart always sinks a little bit when I'm reading a 'Cracked' article on insanity and the first couple of place names are ones I recognise all too well.
It's always much, much more comforting when the stories originate from places like 'Stallion's Tackle, Arkansas'...
I'd probably have something relevant to add but I'm going to be trying to nut out what's wrong with the fucking comments all afternoon. I will say that making people write 'Stallion's Tackle' on any mail they send you would be very tempting. It's even better than 'Iron Knob'.