The unintended pun in everyday life.

Saturday, June 18, 2011

A Pun I Thought, at First Didn't Say, But Then Said Anyway

Apparently schools have begun to conduct mock hostage and/or shooting situations, so SWAT teams can practice making sure they know how to wear their armor and take control of the school and make sure they don't get hurt while they take down the suspects. In one case I read about recently, the superintendent didn't handle the experience very well, so ended up resigning due to bad publicity. He hadn't told the students, and what's worse, he had told the parents to ignore any cell phone calls or text messages from their children. Seems to me this last fact would make the whole exercise invalid--if a real situation had occurred, the parents would certainly not have ignored their children's calls.

Click here to read about this incident.

Description of this and other incidents, with a decided opinion of the practice, indicating that the superindent resigned.
June 18, 2011
In explaining this to my son, I said: “The school didn't even tell the students, which just seems ignorant. And I was about to say that the superintendent took so much flak, but that would be an unintended pun, so I'll say he got so much bad publicity, that he resigned.”
For those of you not familiar with military terms, "flak" is the junk fired from anti-aircraft artillery. SWAT team members wear "flak" jackets to protect them against injury.

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