blogworthy...
it's not too often we have, well, ANYTHING happen around here but yesterday was a pretty interesting day for kittyville residents...
early in the morning I started noticing police cars whizzing past our house with sirens going - this is not too uncommon as we live a few miles down the road from a police station
however normally (for an accident, fire, whatever) you see maybe 3 or 4 cars go by and that's the end of it... but yesterday I was seeing/hearing car after car after car... troopers, sheriffs, unmarked vehicles all with lights and sirens going
after about 30 minutes of this I was thinking this is NO normal accident/fire/whatever - so I decided to check the local newspaper's web site to see if they had any idea what the heck was going on
at the top of the page it said 'KITTYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL ON L*CKD*WN'
so of course I clicked on the article... and of course being the useless piece of crap that it is... they had no useful information
so of course I did the next logical thing... went to facebook!! haaa
where better to get news than from the people living it?
I (and 99% of my facebook friends) went to school there and several of them have kids that go there now... half of them are on the rescue squad or have a relative who is - which means information was immediately pouring into facebook from people listening to scanners...
without using too many keywords (so's to avoid local people looking for info on the situation stumbling on my little blogeroo) a g*y with a g*n went into the sch**l and took the pr*nc*p*l h*st*g* !!!
to make things even MORE interesting... rumors immediately started flying about WHO the g*y with the g*n was... once I showed up on facebook I instantly started getting hit with IM's from people saying they were hearing who it was... and who it was is someone that we ALL know
a local guy... someone I've known all my life... who dated my sister off and on for YEARS and she is still friendly with
so when SHE got onto facebook and got word of this... and the fact that he was still in the building which at this point was surrounded by police, SWAT, and helicopters she was obviously concerned
of course for the kids and staff... but also for HIM
at this point his name had not been officially released so there was hope it was NOT actually him... but sadly nobody seemed too overly surprised when his name came up over the scanners and through the grapevine
being 2000 miles away and having to go to work where she couldn't be on facebook she kept calling me asking for updates...
throughout the morning my phone was ringing off the freakin' hook - ohio friend saw it on the news there and was in complete shock... things like this just do NOT happen here
we're talking about a school that ranges in age from 12-18 - basically grades 6-12 and STILL only has probably less than 1000 students!! it's a tiny, rural school that unlike so many places nowadays doesn't even have metal detectors - in a community where most people don't even lock their doors - EVERYONE knows EVERYONE and when something bad happens to one person pretty much everyone feels it!!
so obviously when this started it was literally only minutes before the tom-toms were beating
people living near the school who weren't even home were offering their homes to parents waiting for word that their kids were safe and could be picked up... local businesses offered space for the hoards of people to sit and wait
all you city mice who wonder how us country mice can stand living so far off the beaten path... THIS is how!! that sense of community is priceless
anyway... as time went on we learned that it definitely WAS the person it was rumored to be - but thankfully all went well, he eventually surrendered and everyone was safe!!
everyone was watching the news and it was SO weird to see our little school on tv... and friends being interviewed and all that stuff - SO WEIRD!!
but weirdest of all I think was in the evening as I was cooking dinner I heard a knock at the door... people don't usually knock on our door and when they do somehow their individual knocks are distinctive but this was a knock I didn't recognize
I opened the door and standing there was a strange man in a suit - he introduced himself as being with a news organization who's name I won't mention but I will say it rhymes with LOX - behind him was another man with a camera!!
they said they had been given this as an address for Chr*s (the g*nm*n) HA!
I was like... ummm he does NOT live here!! they asked if I knew what they were talking about (asking about him) and I said yes... they asked if I was surprised by what happened and I was like HELL yes - who the hell ever thinks something like THAT is going to happen???
they started asking what I knew about him, what I thought of him etc. and I was just like ya know what...I don't really want to discuss it... I don't particularly care to be on the news
eventually they gave up and went away... but I HOPE no more news people show up here!!
anyway... that's probably the most blogworthy thing to happen around here in a long time - the last time something 'major' happened in this town was like 25 years ago - I hope it's another 25 before another major event... of this type anyway!!





