Went through a similar experience when I was in high school. Was at a church camp of all places and the 'leaders' decided a mock hostage situation idea would be a good idea. One girl in the group had just recently been robbed at gunpoint and was severely traumatized by the whole thing. They set it up telling us that someone had escaped from some detention facility earlier in the day and while we were all eating a man came in with the director at gunpoint and told everyone to get down. He shot in the air and a couple of friends and myself all noticed it left no hole in the ceiling (hmmm.. blanks??). We quickly started quietly communicating to each other how to get metal chairs and grab this sob and beat the hell out of him. I guess luckily one of the leaders saw or heard us planning and stopped the whole thing. Still to this day (15 yrs later) I wish we would have gone faster and been able to abuse this guy a little. Not really sure if any of the 'leaders' ever got to do much in camps again after that and not sure many of those kids wanted to go back to camps either. What a joke... people really are amazing.
I feel for the kids that had to go through this and hope it does not screw up any of them too bad. I am sure the parents are loving dealing with the nightmares and fears now.
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Went through a similar experience when I was in high school. Was at a church camp of all places and the 'leaders' decided a mock hostage situation idea would be a good idea. One girl in the group had just recently been robbed at gunpoint and was severely traumatized by the whole thing. They set it up telling us that someone had escaped from some detention facility earlier in the day and while we were all eating a man came in with the director at gunpoint and told everyone to get down. He shot in the air and a couple of friends and myself all noticed it left no hole in the ceiling (hmmm .. blanks??). We quickly started quietly communicating to each other how to get metal chairs and grab this sob and beat the hell out of him. I guess luckily one of the leaders saw or heard us planning and stopped the whole thing. Still to this day (15 yrs later) I wish we would have gone faster and been able to abuse this guy a little. Not really sure if any of the 'leaders' ever got to do much in camps again after that and not sure many of those kids wanted to go back to camps either. What a joke ... people really are amazing.
I feel for the kids that had to go through this and hope it does not screw up any of them too bad. I am sure the parents are loving dealing with the nightmares and fears now.