LOCKDOWN!!

A lockdown that lasted four hours was reported to have ensued at the local school!
E brings in the breaking news as D was too noob enjoying heated up food in the comforts of home.

E and the rest of the school were startled during their lunch time studying by a sharp call from a teacher, and promptly all the students in the proximity rushed into the nearest classroom without knowing why. Excited and then alarmed, the students weren't sure if it was a prank or surprise event or something more serious than that. E thought it was a chemistry party (dream on...) The reality, however, quickly began to assert itself as the teacher announced that we had entered a "code red". Though nobody was sure what that entailed, its importance was evidence as authority moved with lightning speed to tape up the doors and close the blinds. Students even moved to close the windows behind the closed blinds in an anxious precaution against any "bullets that could fly our way". Jokingly, they sat and awaited the news. They didn't have to wait long. Soon their suspicions were confirmed when twitter messages flooded in loaded with surrealistic pictures of tanks and armed men. Suspended above the pictures, or worse, bleakly unadorned for the mind to distort until it seemed their likenesses were floating right in front of them in the air, were words like "SWAT" and "machine guns". Alarmed, they sat tight anxiously waiting for more news crowded around the few electronic devices. Their only consolation was that they were sitting with their friends. Time seemed to pass slowly as more and more funny-worried messages and phone calls failed to clarify the situation. Finally, for what seemed like an hour after they were shoved into the classrooms, in tensions that weren't taut but getting there, the situation was revealed. A man with a firearm was posing a danger to society but not in the school and the dire mood was lifted.
Funny messages that helped lightened the disbelieving mood:
"didn't appreciate my counsellor shoving me under the desk"
"this student walked past the police and they threatened their gun on him" (yeah right)
E never saw the tanks or police hiding behind them or the snipers in person. Perhaps it's for the better. She did see, however, the K9 unit, and was escorted by police into busses that were awaiting the 1300 children of the school in order to be evacuated to safety.
All in all, it was disbelieving, scary, then exciting and finally very quickly boring as fack. As there was no release time specified, all sat in a state of anxious waiting to be freed from the unreal and unmoving situation. At the end of it all wanted more info and food but it seems to be a slow negotiation to safety (as one person remarked..."everything in movies happen so fast".)
Also a point of interest is that a student from another school was invited by a member of this school today and had to endure the lockdown. We're sure that went over well in the guy's mind. Next time, we'll hide our guns and placate stereotype-believing people with our cow poop bombs instead.