Are you familiar with the expression "just because I am paranoid doesn't mean someone's not out to get me" We had a bazaar episode at school on Wednesday that proves that! First of all, I will take you to 6:30 a.m. when the head custodian arrived at school and stumbled upon a cat eating a dead bird. When he approached the cat it took the mangled bird in its mouth and ran up a nearby tree.
Fast forward 2 hours when all the kids are waiting to go inside and the teachers walk out to line them up. All of a sudden there is a Loud bang and a bird falls out of a tree. Now, we had kids on the ground, yelling, running and teachers ushering them inside ready to go into lock down, because we knew there was a gun. My principal was very calm and assured us it was probably a pellet gun until she saw the bird and it's poor body.
When everyone was calmed down and spoken with the whole story came out. The farmers in the fields that surround our school use firecracker like flare guns to scare the birds away from the seeds and one happened to fire at the exact same time the bird (that the cat had been munching on) fell out of the tree.
So, in review, no one was shooting at anyone, there was no gun at school and no one killed anything, except maybe a cat.