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Sabbatai
07/21/09

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So one day I am in school... high school and I am slightly inebriated (read: very fuxed up) sitting on the sidewalk outside of the cafeteria when a van pulls up.

The door opens and a giant mouth, a guy with a neck the length of your arm and some other creature I don't recall jump out.

The mouth eats my backpack and I all my teachers and the administration are pointing at me and laughing.

Then to make me feel better my friend who is completely sober tells me "Don't worry they are real, I see them too."

It didn't make me feel better....

We have this thing called "First Night" here in Annapolis MD that happens every New Year's Eve. People dress up in costume, get drunk and so forth.

This was all done in secrecy with no advance warning that crazy goblins would be coming to visit us.
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CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
07/21/09

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I remember reading in the news about a guy in the UK who got slightly sloshed. And watched an Independance Day fake broadcast on BBC2. He panicked, grabed his wife and kids and made his way down into the basement. He stayed there for a week until other family members got concerned and called the police. They found the family huddled in a corner of the basement!! What a cock!
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Dr Emilio Lizardo
07/21/09

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Maybe the kids could get back at them if they all stop dead in their tracks at the exact same moment and start speaking in unison.
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RandomFrequentFlierDent
07/21/09

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Didn't the same thing happen during Orson Wells' broadcast of The War of the Worlds, except in America and with over a million adults?
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MonkeyT
07/21/09

@RandomFrequentFlierDent: My grandmother heard that broadcast. She didn't panic. She loaded her shotgun and sat on the porch waiting for them.
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RandomFrequentFlierDent
07/21/09

@MonkeyT: This world needs more people like your grandmother.
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LiC
07/21/09

@MonkeyT: I need to hear more stories about grandmas, alien invasions, and loaded shotguns.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
07/21/09

@MonkeyT: My grandparents heard that broadcast too. Including the disclaimer. Plus, grandpa read the original book.
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Grey_Area
07/21/09

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Of course next week the school will catch fire. Alarms will go off and the teachers will be yelling, "Everybody queue up and walk out to the yard. there's no need to panic..."

Only to face roomfuls of little crossed arms and icy stares. "Yeah right. Like we're really gonna fall for this shite twice."
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
07/21/09

@Grey_Area: "Pull the other one, it's got bells on it. Alien bells, oo-er."
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Mortimer Gray
07/21/09

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Next simulation: Zombie outbreak! The school refuses to be held liable for any beheaded faculty members.
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acrobatic rabbit
07/21/09

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BAH!! hahaha. ah... this is great. Superb, really. Kids are wusses. Scare the snot out of them then cough it up to inspiration. Awesome.
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Hamslicer
07/21/09

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With the help of a tape recorder and over-active imaginations, my cousin and I convinced the neighbor kids he was possessed by the devil. One of them even punched him in the stomach.
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Hamslicer
07/21/09

@Hamslicer: (we were about 12 at the time)
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Aidan_
07/21/09

@Hamslicer: Yeah, that would have been my reaction as well, both to your thing and the alien invasion. If I thought aliens were invading the elementary school I probably would have tried to throw down.

I remember when I was about six or seven and went trick-or-treating, some dude was sitting on the porch of his house pretending to be a stuffy-guy wearing a wolfman mask, and while I was getting my candy got up and started reaching towards me. I punched him in the nads, ran back to my mom's car doing and did Dukes of Hazard slide across the the hood screaming for her to start driving.

Moral of the story: please, stop fucking with the children. They will cut you.
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RavenNemain
07/21/09

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The parents should be happy; I am a teacher, and one of the worst things about the school system is the way many schools fall into a routine, and the idea that, if it's been good enough to do for the past umpteen years, then we should keep doing it. They fear change.

A school and staff that are actively trying to make the experience more creative and engaging is to be applauded, even if there are some flaws in its execution. Plus, points for geeky awesomeness!
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Random434
07/21/09

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Would anyone else have cheered at this when they were in school?

I, having seen and loved both Close Encounters and the original Day the earth Stood Still since I was 6 would LOVED this.. In Fact.. Since I disliked most of my teachers, I would have loved it if a couple of them were taken, Probed unnaturally, then left in a corn field.

This too much anger?Maybe...

But oh what fun!!!
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Lassus
07/21/09

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Whomever thought this idea up deserves some kind of medal. Or enobling to Knighthood by the Queen. Or maybe a Gawker starring.

Nah, I guess Knighthood's fine.
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Illogic
07/21/09

@Lassus: I concur.
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draculatrophy
07/21/09

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...and I, for one, welcome our new educational faculty overlords.
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Belabras ate my dingo!
07/21/09

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That is the most awesome thing I've ever heard of a school doing.

I seriously hope they don't get punished for it, because that's one of the most interesting and cool approaches to teaching that I've heard of in a long time.
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Illogic
07/21/09

@Belabras: Not to mention creative. Sounds like they have pretty awesome teachers, the lucky bastards.
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JodaThongnopnua
07/21/09

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Whatever, I don't get people complaining about this. If only my school put this much effort in. These kids will never ever complain about a lack of LARP'ing experience either.

Shit was real, yo.
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JodaThongnopnua
07/21/09

@JodaThongnopnua: Not to mention the fact that I swear that they will look back fondly on this when they are young adults. "Remember that time our entire damn school was hit by aliens." "OH! Oh yeah! That was awesome. I was scared shitless."
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Chip Overclock
07/21/09

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Reminds me of that (true?) story on the radio show THIS AMERICAN LIFE where parents staged a halloween party for the young ones, telling them that a psychopathic killer was on the loose and that's why they had to stay in the basement. Once one of the parents wearing a mask started wandering around outside, tapping on the basement windows, all hell broke lose. Crying, tantrums, screaming, panic. And that was just the chaperones. Then two heroic kids wriggled out though a basement window to a neighbor's house to alert the police.

Ah, good times.
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bitgod
07/21/09

@Chip Overclock:
And then next thing you know, Syfy makes a TV show out of this.

Oh....they already did.
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Hamslicer
07/21/09

@bitgod: I bet the school had better special effects.
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Chip Overclock
07/21/09

@bitgod: I never intentionally watched that show, ?Scare Tactics?, but I did catch an episode or two when Shannen Doherty hosted it because, well, you know, Shannen Doherty. Anyway, I felt it had to be all staged, or at least very very carefully setup. If they pulled something like that in the some state where concealed carry permits were easily acquired, there would be bloodshed. Or at least a supremely awkward moment, with production staff holding up their hands.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
07/21/09

@Chip Overclock: They must check the backgrounds of everyone involved (and limit access to the set) to make sure nobody's carrying.

Unless, of course, everyone's in on it so they don't bring their guns.
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