CLOVIS, N.M. – A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito.
Someone called authorities Thursday after seeing a boy carrying something long and wrapped into Marshall Junior High.
The drama ended two hours later when the suspicious item was identified as a 30-inch burrito filled with steak, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and jalapenos and wrapped inside tin foil and a white T-shirt.
“I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry,” school Principal Diana Russell said.
… “Oh, and I have a new nickname now. It’s Burrito Boy.” …
I’m just not sure where to go with this one, so here’s both possibilities –
“What you got wrapped up in the foil, kid?”
“Two pounds of semtex”
“Thank god. We were afraid it was a burrito.”
or
“What you got wrapped up in the foil, kid?”
“A 30-inch burrito”
“Thank god. We were afraid it was a low whistle.”
But this little incident has given me some new ideas about interesting things to take on an airplane – I cannot tell a lie, Officer Opie. I put that tin-foil wrapped burrito in that T-shirt.
