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Connecticut Teacher Scared By Guns N Roses Song


by turfgrrl


December 14th, 2007 · 16 Comments

The singing must have been really bad in this one. And how can a teacher not know every lyric to every Guns and Roses song? (jk) I think that modern society has just been dumbed down enough to not recognize a real death threat. A movie like Airplane! could not be made today, because no one is left to get the jokes. From the AP

Loudspeaker Karaoke Scares Conn. Teacher

ROXBURY, Conn. (AP) — Karaoke can be scary, but threatening? A school custodian’s impromptu after-hours karaoke performance prompted a police response when a teacher thought she was being threatened over the loudspeaker.

State police say the teacher at Booth Free School barricaded herself inside a classroom Wednesday when she mistook someone singing a Guns N’ Roses song over the public address system for a threat.

She was working after hours and thought no one else was in the building. Then she heard someone say over the loudspeaker that she was going to die.

Six troopers and three police dogs showed up and found three teenagers, one of them a custodian at the school, who had been playing with the public address system.

Police say one of them sang “Welcome to the Jungle” into the microphone. The song contains the lyrics “You’re in the jungle baby; you’re gonna die.”

The teenagers were cuffed for about 15 minutes while police investigated. They didn’t realize anyone else was in the school at the time. No charges will be filed, said state police Sgt. Brian Ness.

And for those of you who don’t know the tune:

And Airplane!

Tags: Education

16 Responses so far ↓ “Connecticut Teacher Scared By Guns N Roses Song”



  • 1 Anonymous // Dec 14, 2007 at 4:51 pm

    Thanks for the humor after the Laurel/Amanda post.
    Nothing funny about that. The Airplane scene where the line of people, some holding boxing gloves and wrenches, and of course the nun, beating up on the woman who his having a fit while screaming at her to calm down, reminds me of some of the folks on this blog who gang up on someone when they are vulnerable. Obviously Amanda and Laurel both made mistakes and regret their actions. But some of the comments in that last post are downright cruel, and obviously made by some of the regular contributors. Surely you can’t be that mean.

  • 2 Anonymous // Dec 14, 2007 at 9:07 pm

    Anonymous#1.

    I will state that the behind closed doors policy of city officials and cooperation to their corruption is so commonplace that our leaders do not know why anyone would not comply to their every whim. The noncomplaint to the organized corruption get penalized in some way to make them invisible to the public but occassionally the powerful get exposed to the public and when that happens they do all they can to make the public forget. Everyone knows another show down is coming.

  • 3 turfgrrl // Dec 15, 2007 at 7:54 am

    anonymous # 1: Don’t call me Shirley. :) I was thinking the exact same thing on that clip.

  • 4 Anonymous // Dec 15, 2007 at 2:50 pm

    Axl Rose is a racist! Shame on this post!

  • 5 ctyankee // Dec 15, 2007 at 6:23 pm

    to #4:

    Shame on you. The post has *nothing* to do with Guns N’ Roses, it’s about overreacting, it’s about a teacher with an overactive imagination (too many Halloween or Friday the 13th movies).

    Perhaps is was a poor choice of music, but let’s look at some of the other possible outcomes:

    Saga: “On The Loose” they’d have been charged with boisterous exuberance.

    Pink Floyd: “Young Lust” they’d have been charged with soliciting prostitution.

    Simon & Garfunkel: “My Little Town” Abandoning the scene of a massacre.

    Electric Light Orchestra: any title… Satanism.

    So, my point is that we’re so wound up as a society, there’s no room left for expression. Is this what we want.

    I can’t convey how relieved I am that the charges were dropped.

  • 6 Anonymous // Dec 15, 2007 at 8:33 pm

    Roxbury, Connecticut is where Authur Miller wrote Death of a Salesman…and he was accused of destroying the American Dream in that play.

  • 7 Anonymous // Dec 15, 2007 at 9:58 pm

    Ct Yankee, your a joke! The leader of this band- is a open racist. Therefore, this man nor his works should be posted here.

  • 8 Big Fan // Dec 15, 2007 at 10:00 pm

    Alx Rose is not a racist. Your bad for sayin that he is. Read up on the word about Axl. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axl_Rose. Peace out.

  • 9 :) // Dec 15, 2007 at 11:32 pm

    lighten up #7 we have a mayor that shouldn’t be in office and his work is substandard but we still allow him to be mayor.

    anyone ever hear of the fish cheer by country Joe Mcdonald? mimics Norwalk I’d say my opinion of course.

    1 2 3 what are we voting for

    I don’t give a damm the next stop is Oyster Park

    4 5 6 open up the park we are all going to die

  • 10 Anonymous // Dec 16, 2007 at 12:52 am

    Here is Axl Rose’s statement to rolling stone.

    “I used that word (n****) because it was taboo. I was pissed off about some black people that were trying to rob me. I wanted to insult those particular black people.”

    Shame on this post!

  • 11 Anonymous // Dec 17, 2007 at 5:14 pm

    #10 Did you purposely leave out the next sentence when Axl said “I didn’t want to support racism.”?

    When “One in a Million”’s lyrics prompted members of the press to call Guns N’ Roses “David Duke’s house band,” Rose countered, “I don’t like being associated with that. I asked the crowd [at a Guns N’ Roses concert]: “Is that what you get out of this, that we’re racists and you’re supporting it? ‘Cause if that’s the case, I’m gonna go home. That’s not why we’re here.”

    http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5937403/axl_rose_the_rs_interview

  • 12 Anonymous // Dec 24, 2007 at 9:23 pm

    You can’t have it both ways. Narrow-minded Jesse Jackson never apologizes for all his racist mistakes yet thrives on demands for apologies by whites. Duke University mistake for one!

    The Jena, LA was racist, racist, racist against blacks, so when I see racism I speak against it. Axl Rose does not have a high school degree. Education is important, isn’t it? Education isn’t everything, yet highly educated leaders using race to advance a single-race agenda is racist.

    Antisemitism in a sad state of affairs. I wasn’t there so I do not know if his words are twisted around and frankly I think that may be the case. Supposedly Will Smith said that Hitler “didn’t wake up going, ‘Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.’ … I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was ‘good.’” Do I attack him for what he said or for the color of his skin? No, I learn about the whole person and try to understand him before making a judgment. Is Jesse Jackson demanding an apology?

    I like Will Smith as an actor, but this statement is ignorant, detestable and offensive if true. I can appreciate satire, parody and humor about my Judaism, but this was not any of the three.

    Any human can discriminate against another human being. We live in color. Life is not black and white.

    Concluding my statements I will say turfgrrls post had absolutely nothing to do with endorsing Axl Rose but the post is about the disconnect of some from modern society. Your “that’s racist” statements is an excellent example of such disconnect.

  • 13 Anonymous // Dec 24, 2007 at 9:47 pm

    I want to add that “twisted, backwards logic” makes sense to me. A lot of racist people use “twisted, backwards logic” and in this twisted, backwards logic they confusingly do evil in the name of xyz. I am not offended if Will Smith said Hitler was messed up in the head. If Will Smith thinks what Hitler did was good then I find that incredibly offensive.

  • 14 Anonymous // Dec 30, 2007 at 5:11 pm

    Axl Rose has been called a racist and a homophobe way too many times by ignorant people. Let’s not forget that the lead guitarist of Guns N’ Roses, Slash, was half black, and that Axl Rose admires and has performed with Elton John numerous times. Guns N’ Roses have also toured with Living Colour, a great hard rock band composed of black men. Coming across as racist was not his intention.

  • 15 Anonymous // Dec 30, 2007 at 11:17 pm

    #14 Americans need to learn how to distinguish between people calling someone racist and politically motivated accusations. When you read about the controversy it is politically motivated and not African American race group as a whole motivated.

    The most dividing politicians feed themselves off the ignorance and become superstars in the limelights to advance their careers. You won’t find African Americans up in arms over his decision to fight the reactionist. Axl and others state that he was tired of the taboo topic about race relations.

    Political leaders out to raise money for self interests disregard the division they cause because it lines pockets and makes them powerful. The reason people shy away from the subject of racism is a result of political leaders dividing. We can do better.

  • 16 Anonymous // Dec 30, 2007 at 11:50 pm

    Party motivations…if you look at the history of party labels you will not find one party for any given year representing the Constitution of the United States. The sooner people realize labels are misleading America, the sooner we can make a person transparent. A voter retrained to analyze the actions and not the surface the sooner we will get transparency.

    In the meantime we will continue down the misleading path where labels such as independents, republican, democrat and the rest of them outweigh the actions behind the name of a person.

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