SWAT Ties Up Students, Blows Tires During "Bus Hijacking"
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 8:55 pm
Students Involved in Bus Hijack Drill - But Aren't Told About it
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAxypEN1Lro[/youtube]
Students riding the school bus in Rossford, Ohio, just outside Toledo, were the subjects of a hijacking drill conducted by the local police force they never saw coming, reports Opposing Views.
In the drill, a policeman posing as an armed and masked hijacker enters the bus, ties up students, and paces up the aisle - all while police and school administrators watch live video of the proceedings from the comfort of their seats at an outside venue.
The bus was eventually driven to a parking lot belonging to the Owens Center for Emergency Preparedness, a police training center, where the town's SWAT team shot out the tires, entered the bus and "saved" the students from hypothetical doom.
Planning for the drill began in May, but the jarring experience that that took a toll on at least one student is quite fresh.
"I didn't know what was going on, because at the start he was just a normal person and then he pulled out a gun and a mask, and put it all on," said teen Justin Klocko. "Then he started tying everybody down and it just got really scary."
A transportation official for the school defended the drill, saying that "every driver, administrator will take something away from this, saying that this could actually happen on my bus." And one student claimed the exercise made her feel good knowing that when the real thing does happen, "there are people who will be there to stop it."
I wonder how many of these "training exercises" end up going live.. Boston Bombing anyone?
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAxypEN1Lro[/youtube]
Students riding the school bus in Rossford, Ohio, just outside Toledo, were the subjects of a hijacking drill conducted by the local police force they never saw coming, reports Opposing Views.
In the drill, a policeman posing as an armed and masked hijacker enters the bus, ties up students, and paces up the aisle - all while police and school administrators watch live video of the proceedings from the comfort of their seats at an outside venue.
The bus was eventually driven to a parking lot belonging to the Owens Center for Emergency Preparedness, a police training center, where the town's SWAT team shot out the tires, entered the bus and "saved" the students from hypothetical doom.
Planning for the drill began in May, but the jarring experience that that took a toll on at least one student is quite fresh.
"I didn't know what was going on, because at the start he was just a normal person and then he pulled out a gun and a mask, and put it all on," said teen Justin Klocko. "Then he started tying everybody down and it just got really scary."
A transportation official for the school defended the drill, saying that "every driver, administrator will take something away from this, saying that this could actually happen on my bus." And one student claimed the exercise made her feel good knowing that when the real thing does happen, "there are people who will be there to stop it."
I wonder how many of these "training exercises" end up going live.. Boston Bombing anyone?
