Stories of the Central Lockdown

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    On Tuesday, April 17, 2007, students in Central High School in Rapid City, SD were locked into a full-security mode for more than three hours - lights off, no leaving rooms, stay quiet. A report of a gun in the building had triggered the status, and though it was confirmed a hoax shortly after 1:00pm, the day imprinted a distinct mark on students. Here, many of them leave their stories.
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Locked in the Library

Posted by Mr. Sheehy on April 18, 2007




So, yesterday there was a lock down.

It was really scary cause that was the first time I ever saw Mr. Jones run and be all freaked out. We were coming up to the door wondering why they were locked and stuff and then Mr. Jones came running up the door and started yelling at us to get to the library and stuff and we were getting like rushed up the stairs. So we sat there for about 9924334 hours (sums up to around 3) just being bored and talking and trying to sleep and trying to hear what people on the security guards walkie talkies were saying…so that we got all the information we possibly could. We couldn’t go anywhere near the wall of windows and we couldn’t go to the bathroom or anything. There was one kid that did his business in a Gatorade bottle and that was kind of weird.

When we were heading out to the Civic Center we had to hold on to the shoulders of the person in front of us and that was sort of hard cause my group would go all fast the slow then speed up again and it was sad.

We had 149 people in the library.

I don’t like the kid that did this. It was stupid. And I hope he feels terrible.

- Sarah (who, for the record, wanted to title it, “The Suspenseful Story of Sarah”)

One Response to “Locked in the Library”

  1.   Tierra Says:

    I was in the library too. I had the feeling it was fake, but I was thinking “No one would ever lie about something like this.”

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