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Bureaucracy at its finest, or, Your Tax Dollars at Work.

Today, during fourth period, i had just gotten sat down at my computer, and logged in, when suddenly an “emergency” assembly was called for the whole school. After much hustling and bustling, and murmurs of disasters that may have happened, the real reason for the assembly was called. I was shocked. Not 2, not 10, not 50, but ONE thermometer had broken in one room, so the entire school was evacuated, and that entire wing, up and downstairs, was quarantined, and lucky me, thats where all my crap was. When i got outside, i saw that for this one thermometer, they had brought in TWO full sized firetrucks, and an entire HAZmat truck and team, in addition to the fire cheif in his little patrol truck. FOR ONE **** THERMOMETER! i feel so safe now. while half the local firestation is here cleaning up a thermometer like its a plutonium bomb, someones house burns down because the firemen were too busy.

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (6 minutes after post)

Lmao, alarmism at its finest. Wth did they think was going to happen that they needed to evacuate the entire school???

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SayItsSo offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 13 #
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did a house really burn down?

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BaconByAnyOtherName offline Verified User (2 years, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
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i dont know, but the least they couldve done was do it when the **** thing actually broke. they didnt evacuate us until 30 minutes before school got out, about 2 hours after the thing broke.

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BaconByAnyOtherName offline Verified User (2 years, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
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sayitsso wrote:
did a house really burn down?

no, im just saying

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SayItsSo offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 13 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (11 minutes after post)

so why did ur break it?

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____________________ offline Verified User (2 years, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (11 minutes after post)

Seriously, that’s retarded.

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BaconByAnyOtherName offline Verified User (2 years, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (11 minutes after post)

they dropped it.

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SayItsSo offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 13 #
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When i get superpowers i’m going to beat u

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BaconByAnyOtherName offline Verified User (2 years, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (14 minutes after post)

why me?

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1 year ago (28 minutes after post)

It was probably a mercury thermometer. The chemical mercury can be highly dangerous, and while I do think that what they did was overkill I suppose ‘better safe than sorry’.

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BaconByAnyOtherName offline Verified User (2 years, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (30 minutes after post)

a mercury thermometer it was. but thats no reason for all that. theres “better safe than sorry” safe, and “stick you in an airtight rubber ball wrapped in bubble wrap so you dont catch a cold” safe.

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1 year ago (31 minutes after post)

Meh. Maybe it was to cover themselves legally.

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Xeno Dragon offline Verified User (2 years, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 10 #
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The terrorists have won.

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BaconByAnyOtherName offline Verified User (2 years, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (33 minutes after post)

thats always what it is. now no stupidass parent after a quick buck can sue the school

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Limon offline Verified User (2 years, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
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There’s probably more mercury in the fish sticks they served for lunch.

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BaconByAnyOtherName offline Verified User (2 years, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (48 minutes after post)

considering the fish sticks they serve at lunch…a lot more.

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Commander Ikari offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 223 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (11 hours, 26 minutes after post)

Why the hell don’t they just use alcohol thermometers?

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Commander Ikari wrote:
Why the hell don’t they just use alcohol thermometers?

because mercury is red, dammit!

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Commander Ikari offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 223 #
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Bacon, God of Gods wrote:

Commander Ikari wrote:
Why the hell don’t they just use alcohol thermometers?

because mercury is red, dammit!

alright then…

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Xeno Dragon offline Verified User (2 years, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 10 #
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Bacon, God of Gods wrote:

Commander Ikari wrote:
Why the hell don’t they just use alcohol thermometers?

because mercury is red, dammit!

No it isn’t… It’s silver.

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BaconByAnyOtherName offline Verified User (2 years, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
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Xeno Dragon wrote:

Bacon, God of Gods wrote:
Commander Ikari wrote:
Why the hell don’t they just use alcohol thermometers?

because mercury is red, dammit!

No it isn’t… It’s silver.

same thing

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SayItsSo offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 13 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (1 day, 1 hour after post)

Bacon, God of Gods wrote:

Xeno Dragon wrote:
Bacon, God of Gods wrote:
Commander Ikari wrote:
Why the hell don’t they just use alcohol thermometers?

because mercury is red, dammit!

No it isn’t… It’s silver.

same thing

how??

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (1 day, 1 hour after post)

magic

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