Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Security Theater

Today our school received two of these long, Y-shaped metal poles.  I was unsure of their purpose and was surprised to hear they are to keep away intruders.  If a bad dude decides to invade Zamami school this pole is supposed to be used as protection.  Caught by the hilarity of such a prospect, I laughed out loud, which amused a few people who apparently agreed with me.  I defended my position, pretending to be an intruder.  I had one of the guys try to protect himself against me with the pole. I quickly showed the uselessness of the pole by just grabbing it myself and (a) lifting the hoop over my head or stepping over it or (b) spinning around it and walking towards the guy.  Pretty soon everybody was laughing at the stupid pole, but they hung it up anyway.  I really hope this was a national mandate and that nobody at Zamami thought this was a good use of money (especially because we live on Zamami, where a crime has never occurred).

[Seriously?  We're going to have a single bad guy come into Zamami and somebody is going to think "get the pole!" before all of the male teachers just tackle him?]

4 comments:

Cliff said...

Whenever we have had 'intruder drills', the teachers usually grab whatever is around them, like baseball bats and stuff. I wonder if our schools will be getting this government approved weapons.

Quentin said...

When I used to teach in Gunma some of the schools had net guns in every classroom.

Dave said...

I would love to be there on 'intruder drill' day when the net guns are deployed.

Son of Higashi said...

Dave, here's a project for you - find out some way to electrify the half-circle end of the pole. That would make things way more awesome.