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[News] Guardian Article: Columbine Scare in North Pole, Alaska

 
 
iconoplast
00:13 / 30.12.06
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Outside, people are going about their business on Frosty Avenue. Friends are chatting on Kris Kringle Drive. A gang of hoodies are slouched against the candy-cane striped streetlights on Santa Claus Lane, having just emerged from the Christmas-themed McDonald's. Everything in North Pole is Christmas-themed. Itis Christmas Day 365 days a year.

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Each week in November and December, a box of Santa letters is sent over to the nearby Middle School where the town's 11- and 12-year-olds - the sixth graders - write back in the guise of elves. It is part of the curriculum.

But there's something else - something bad. Six of last year's Middle School elves, now aged 13, were arrested back in April for being in the final stages of plotting a mass murder, a Columbine-style school shooting. The information is sketchy, but apparently they had elaborate diagrams and codenames and lists of the kids they were going to kill. I've come to North Pole to investigate the plot. What turned those elves bad? Were they serious? Was the town just too Christmassy?
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
16:09 / 03.01.07
Holy Crow, that was great.
 
 
iconoplast
17:31 / 03.01.07
That may have been the strangest of the strange but true things I read in 2006.
 
 
Quantum
23:47 / 03.01.07
I read that article and it had a big pic of a local woman who should be on Barbelith- she lives there in christmastown but hates it, early twenties, comic writer, Batman symbol tattoo etc; it was her attitude that got me the most. I was going to start a thread on how someone should contact her via Myspace, but then I thought it might not be welcome. She's probably too cool for us.

But I like to think if I ever get stuck in North Pole I know there's someone I'd get on with. Coolest girl in town no less.
 
 
Quantum
23:50 / 03.01.07
"Apparently they drew up a list," I say.

"Well, I have a hate list on my wall, too," she says.

"Yes," I say, "but I'm sure you don't have access to weapons."

"I have a revolver in my bedroom," J says.

"Do you stand in front of the mirror with it and shout 'freeze' and imagine what it's like to kill your enemies?" I ask.

There's a silence. "I might," says J, finally.


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