Teens Sing Guns N’ Roses Into School PA System, Terrified Teacher Calls On The K-9 Squad

I can’t believe that there are people out there in 2007 who are still scared by Guns N’ Roses’ “Welcome To The Jungle”–in 2007, people!–but apparently a schoolteacher in Connecticut, who was staying after school one day when three teenagers took over the PA system and engaged in some impromptu karaoke, is still unnerved by the lyrical content of W. Axl Rose and Co. Or maybe she was just freaked out by the crummy rendition of the song that she was subjected to?

State police say a 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 on the ground for about 15 minutes while police investigated. They were released after being questioned and state police Sgt. Brian Ness said they did not realize the teacher was in the school and will not face charges.

OK, I feel bad for the woman being freaked out. But raise your hand if, given the opportunity to engage in this sort of behavior when you were in high school, you wouldn’t have jumped at it immediately.

Conn. Teacher Calls Police Over Impromptu Karaoke [WCBS; HT Brian Lutz]