"Conn. Teacher Calls Police Over Impromptu Karaoke"


ROXBURY, Conn. (AP) ― A school custodian's impromptu after-hours karaoke performance prompted a police response when a teacher thought she was being threatened over the loudspeaker.

State police say a teacher at Booth Free School barricaded herself inside a classroom Wednesday when she mistook someone singing a Guns N' Roses song over the public address system for a threat.

She was working after hours and thought no one else was in the building. Then she heard someone say over the loudspeaker that she was going to die.

Six troopers and three police dogs showed up and found three teenagers, one of them a custodian at the school, who had been playing with the public address system.

Police say one of them sang "Welcome to the Jungle" into the microphone. The song contains the lyrics "You're in the jungle baby; you're gonna die."

The teenagers were cuffed on the ground for about 15 minutes while police investigated. They were released after being questioned and state police Sgt. Brian Ness said they did not realize the teacher was in the school and will not face charges.

"These things happen," Van Ness said. "Luckily it was humorous. You kind of have a gut feeling. As soon as we got there, we spoke to the three kids. They understood."

Wcbstv article: http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/gunsnroses.scares.teacher.2.610016.html

That's kind of crazy! I guess the teens will know better then to play with the pa system!

lmao, omg I was so glad to read this post!!! There are so many posts about what is wrong in the world and what new violence has occurred in our school systems, that it was a relief to read something that was comical and non-violent!!!


Thank You!

Quite funny, I would suppose they were either suspended or given serious detention time. It isn't in the article, but I wouldn't be surprised at all. And, what teenagers these days sing 'Welcome to the Jungle'?

Plus, Booth Free School? What the heck kind of school name is that? Doesn't look like a private school according to the website, but it is certainly an odd name choice.

Some People are that paranoid! lmao

Daniel

That's just too funny!

maybe it was named after john wilkes

lol, yeah right.