Good god!

[mysteriousaliways]

I've just been to pick up my daughter from youth theatre rehearsal at her school and had to make a detour just before the road her school is on, because the police had closed off the road. I went the long way round and saw the other end of the road-block just at the junction onto the school's road. Thought it was an accident or something, as they had the 'Police - Accident' signs up and had blocked off the road with police cars with the flashing lights.

It wasn't until I got to the school and one of the older kids who helps with youth theatre (who happens to be the 17-year-old who lives next door to us) came out and told us that they weren't letting the kids out until someone came to collect them, as there was a gunman wandering around town and they weren't sure where he was!

Needless to say, I took a circuitous route home without stopping to do the recycling.

This was 15 minutes ago - we've just this minute got home - so I expect it's still going on.

Meep!

Comments

[aire-blair.livejournal.com]

How SCARY is that!!

Thank goodness you're all home and safe!

[mysteriousaliwz.livejournal.com]

I was definitely glad to get home, despite C complaining I had no sense of adventure!

Just a few weeks ago there was a guy who went on a killing spree in the county next to ours who killed his brother then drove around the local villages shooting people at random, killing 12 before killing himself. And this was in a quiet rural area like ours. So it's the first thing that springs to mind when you hear there's another guy with a gun. Definitely too close for comfort.

I expect it won't turn out to be anything dramatic, probably just a domestic dispute and an air-rifie. I hope.