6 December—The big news in Goshen, Litchfield, Morris, and Warren (the Region 20 towns in alphabetical order, if you haven’t figured it out) is that even though a live bullet was found in the misnamed Lakeview High School yesterday, causing a typical albeit these days understandable overreaction—sheltering in place, police call, and gun-sniffing dog—nobody was killed or injured. It’s likely, in fact, that although it certainly was prudent to take precautions, most of the kids and staff weren’t scared or worried. But parents, maybe.

According to reliable online sources, the call to Troop L barracks was made at about 9:50 a.m., the police responded immediately from about a mile down the road (probably with sirens wailing and strobe lights flashing), and the lockdown was over by 11:30 a.m. (For the record, newsbreak.com’s CRIMERADAR, which provides a recording of a13-second call from a dispatcher to police, puts the call at “07:02 AM.”)

According to the Region’s website—one of them, anyway—classes at the high school start at 7:50 a.m. (Wouldn’t it make sense to consolidate the websites? Or does Litchfield expect to divorce Wamogo because Wamogo married Litchfield for its money and the marriage doesn’t appear to be going too well?)

So according to the superintendent’s emailed letter, the pupil perp was identified by the rozzers and wasn’t armed. According to online sources, the perp was 15 years old and was issued a juvenile summons for second-degree breach of peace and faced disciplinary action by school authorities. Thus, if readers want to know the young perp’s identity, they’ll have to ask anyone but official sources.

The live round found on the floor of a classroom, by the way, was a 9mm, presumably Luger. And that’s all we know.

To reminisce about the good old days when kids could show off their bullets and even their daddies’ war-trophy firearms and other ordnance in school show-and-tells and the only sheltering-in-place we did was totally useless duck-and-cover drills looking forward to atom-bomb attacks, read Shooting ghosts from October of last year.