When reasonable people turn into crazy batheads

So.
So.So.So.
A kid tells another at another high school in my county that they heard that another kid had threatened to bring a gun to school. Then, one of them gets on My Space (ugh!) and threatens violence worse than anyone had seen.
This was last night.
Today, it's all over the county- parents, schools, businesses, that there's a guy at another school with a gun.
No wait, he shot someone.
AND
he's coming to our school
AND there are bomb threats.

Sheesh.
Effing rumor mongers!

We had about half of our kids check out today, 80% at the other school. It was a zoo!
Nothing got done.

The Good News- all the dumb asses left before we had our field day. All the good kids were left, and we had a blast playing in the sun: egg toss, 3-legged race, balloon race, etc, etc.