WHY THE FUCK DID NO ONE TELL ME MY SCHOOL BLEW UP?!
Yeah, so I was talking with one of my online peeps and we were comparing our old high schools.
Niles West was decidedly better, by the way.
So, I decided to go through the ol' archives of The West Word, just to see how this once-spiffy newspaper was doing. (and to lord over our superior journalisim.) So, I'm looking through the random links to random newspaper release dates and the first one I click on is from April 1st 2004. What do I have to greet me on the front page, you ask?
Niles West fucking blew up.
The odd thing about it, is that this happened a few weeks after I happened to see a spectacular film called "Dawn Of The Dead." Spectacular indeed. I quite enjoyed this film and one of my hobbies is Role-playing amusing storylines via AOL chats. My friend and I share this hobby, so we decided to plan out a Dawn of the Dead storyline. Now, Katie, Chelly, Diego, you've all heard me rant about this.
We thought, "Hmmm, where other than an indoor mall would be a good place to be held up in case of Zombie attack? A Hotel? No...A prison....maybe later...Where else? I know! Niles West High School is a fucking awesome place. They have very sturdy doors and windows, all sorts of places you could lock down and still survive, and all kinds of places to hide! And, when the time came for us to leave, I have the perfect escape plan."
The plan went thusly. The school is utterly locked down, and there are all sorts of places to be. So when we go stir crazy or are forced to leave for one reason or another this is what we do.
The autos classroom always has at least one car inside. What we have to do is cut open or syphon out any remaining gasoline and put it in a bucket which can be procured from numerous places around the school. We take ropes from the High Ropes Course and other places in the gym and we soak the rope, about 1,000 feet or so. Then we open all the valves on the bunson burners in the science wing, closing it off with fire doors and such, allowing it to fill with flamible gas. Meanwhile we also rig a few fastropes from the third floor roof to the northeast side of the school and another up in Ports in the theater. Once the ropes are nice and soaked in gasoline we thread the gas-soaked rope into the gas-filled science wing, just waiting. When all is set we equip everyone with some heavy-duty gloves, our fastest runner doubles-up. So we have the fastest one poised at the garage door where we've lured all the zombies to through various means. Mostly by showing most of our activity right there. So when all is ready we have everyone else locked in the northeast side of the school save our one runner. When we are ready the runner opens the garage door to the autos classroom, makes sure he is seen by the hordes and runs his ass off to the auditorium about 500 or so feet down the hall. Once the hordes follow suit, he runs up to the balcony and goes into ports, taking the secured walkway and going to the pre-rigged fastrope at the front of the house. He leaps safly down, holding on to the rope with his double-gloves so as not to burn his hands. Meanwhile, the Zombies fall through poorly constructed ceiling panals as they try to chase him.
While this is happening the group at the northeast side of the school light the gas-soaked rope, allowing the fire to slowly creep toward the science wing at the other end of the building while they leap out of the windows and fast-rope to the ground where they quickly run to the parkring lot to secure a vehicle big enough for them all. They then drive up to the exit for the fine arts wing where the fast one should be coming out. As the zombies pool in the school the group is driving away just as the gas-rope hits the science wing, reducing the entire school to flame and rubble.
This was all planned about three days after Dawn Of The Dead opened.
What happened a few weeks later?
The science wing is blown up because of an open valve on the bunson burner.
Does anyone else find this creepy?
Niles West was decidedly better, by the way.
So, I decided to go through the ol' archives of The West Word, just to see how this once-spiffy newspaper was doing. (and to lord over our superior journalisim.) So, I'm looking through the random links to random newspaper release dates and the first one I click on is from April 1st 2004. What do I have to greet me on the front page, you ask?
Niles West fucking blew up.
The odd thing about it, is that this happened a few weeks after I happened to see a spectacular film called "Dawn Of The Dead." Spectacular indeed. I quite enjoyed this film and one of my hobbies is Role-playing amusing storylines via AOL chats. My friend and I share this hobby, so we decided to plan out a Dawn of the Dead storyline. Now, Katie, Chelly, Diego, you've all heard me rant about this.
We thought, "Hmmm, where other than an indoor mall would be a good place to be held up in case of Zombie attack? A Hotel? No...A prison....maybe later...Where else? I know! Niles West High School is a fucking awesome place. They have very sturdy doors and windows, all sorts of places you could lock down and still survive, and all kinds of places to hide! And, when the time came for us to leave, I have the perfect escape plan."
The plan went thusly. The school is utterly locked down, and there are all sorts of places to be. So when we go stir crazy or are forced to leave for one reason or another this is what we do.
The autos classroom always has at least one car inside. What we have to do is cut open or syphon out any remaining gasoline and put it in a bucket which can be procured from numerous places around the school. We take ropes from the High Ropes Course and other places in the gym and we soak the rope, about 1,000 feet or so. Then we open all the valves on the bunson burners in the science wing, closing it off with fire doors and such, allowing it to fill with flamible gas. Meanwhile we also rig a few fastropes from the third floor roof to the northeast side of the school and another up in Ports in the theater. Once the ropes are nice and soaked in gasoline we thread the gas-soaked rope into the gas-filled science wing, just waiting. When all is set we equip everyone with some heavy-duty gloves, our fastest runner doubles-up. So we have the fastest one poised at the garage door where we've lured all the zombies to through various means. Mostly by showing most of our activity right there. So when all is ready we have everyone else locked in the northeast side of the school save our one runner. When we are ready the runner opens the garage door to the autos classroom, makes sure he is seen by the hordes and runs his ass off to the auditorium about 500 or so feet down the hall. Once the hordes follow suit, he runs up to the balcony and goes into ports, taking the secured walkway and going to the pre-rigged fastrope at the front of the house. He leaps safly down, holding on to the rope with his double-gloves so as not to burn his hands. Meanwhile, the Zombies fall through poorly constructed ceiling panals as they try to chase him.
While this is happening the group at the northeast side of the school light the gas-soaked rope, allowing the fire to slowly creep toward the science wing at the other end of the building while they leap out of the windows and fast-rope to the ground where they quickly run to the parkring lot to secure a vehicle big enough for them all. They then drive up to the exit for the fine arts wing where the fast one should be coming out. As the zombies pool in the school the group is driving away just as the gas-rope hits the science wing, reducing the entire school to flame and rubble.
This was all planned about three days after Dawn Of The Dead opened.
What happened a few weeks later?
The science wing is blown up because of an open valve on the bunson burner.
Does anyone else find this creepy?