That's not a drill, it's a sick prank. They inform the girls of the truth after 30 minutes of having the supposedly abducted girl hide? What was the purpose of the that, besides traumatizing the girls, yelling at some of them during that half an hour of emotional hell. People have a right to know what purpose this prank served.
That's a really scary thought! This isn't the first time I've heard of a PD faking out young people (not 100% if it was true since I didn't check for an alternate source): a friend once described how students at a HS were terrorized by a false narrative, they were told there was a car accident (with ambulances showing up as part of the farce, that much WAS true) and that two very popular students had been killed. Supposedly it was to emphasis the reality of drunk driving! The friend had become suspicious when she found no write up in the paper over why so many emergency vehicles (that she saw herself) had descended on that school. Somehow she found out from someone that it was a fake event.
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kestrel9 ago
That's not a drill, it's a sick prank. They inform the girls of the truth after 30 minutes of having the supposedly abducted girl hide? What was the purpose of the that, besides traumatizing the girls, yelling at some of them during that half an hour of emotional hell. People have a right to know what purpose this prank served.
pizzawithgreenchile ago
Not even a prank, perhaps a "dry run" or an aborted attempt at the real thing.
kestrel9 ago
That's a really scary thought! This isn't the first time I've heard of a PD faking out young people (not 100% if it was true since I didn't check for an alternate source): a friend once described how students at a HS were terrorized by a false narrative, they were told there was a car accident (with ambulances showing up as part of the farce, that much WAS true) and that two very popular students had been killed. Supposedly it was to emphasis the reality of drunk driving! The friend had become suspicious when she found no write up in the paper over why so many emergency vehicles (that she saw herself) had descended on that school. Somehow she found out from someone that it was a fake event.