Pickles by Brian Crane for December 27, 2021

Did anybody try to shoot Mr. Hudson?

We had fire drills and tornado drills. No bear drills, though.

I’ve heard of Bear Grylls but not bear drills.

Use to have fire drills and air raid drills.

Old enough to remember duck and cover drills in the event of nuclear attack.

We have a custodian who carries a flask.

It’s sad that this country puts the selling of more guns over the safety of our children, that they have “mad dog” drills so they know what to do when a shooter hits the school.

Don’t worries, kid. I’ll never comes into school. The last time I was forced to go into that miserable prison was when me was a cub.

Fire drills, at school and at work, were a way of getting time off tasklegally!

Nelson neglected to mention that it was also Psilocybin Day in his kindergarten classroom the day he mistook Mr. Hudson for a bear.

Just getting an image of the bear drill…

A famous bear said: “Only you can prevent forest fires”.

What about drills for a moose in a school? Happened earlier this year in Saskatoon.

A bear drillin’? What kinda hole?

My local paper had letters to the editor from 2nd graders. Most mentioned shooter drills, and others wanted increased security-metal detectors-at the entrance. (Head shake, sigh) The day after they had letters from 7th graders, most of whom wanted adults to pay attention to the planet. They want adults to stop destroying their future.

There were some grizzly bears near Pulaski’s candy store.

News flash: no school this week.

name bear drills — less traumatic that active shooter drills

Must be a country school.. those city ones have active shooter drills

An easy error to make.

He goes to Wiley Miller Elementary

About “Bear Necessities” ?

Bears are all over – my GPS often warns me “Bear left”, “Bear right”.

When I was a kid, we had air-raid drills and fire drills in school, but I never dreamed I would grow up to live in a world where active shooter drills have become the norm in our schools.

No EARL today..?? (so sad)

We had fallout shelter drills and fire drills. Hated the fallout going down into the basement auditorium. It was roomy and not gloomy, but maybe it was those big yellow signs that were a little unnerving.

Imaginations run wild in some kids…lol

So then, a bear.

One of my grandsons goes to kindergarten in a small town in Alaska; they do have bear-in-the-school protocols.

I remember a bomb shelter drill during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Neither boys nor girls yet enjoy going outside bare.

Did not think on bears. I thought be worse with teen’s on anger wanting to do worse.

Kids say the funniest things! My four year old grandson came out with the following…his dad takes a stern sounding deep voice when he’s in trouble, and on Sunday they went to his in-laws church to hear their family of five sing together. Jack is the older teenager and his voice has changed, so when listening to them sing, my grandson asked his dad (my son) “How come Jack sings with a grumpy voice?!” I love it!Their view of the world…

I was talking to a member of my church one Sunday morning and she had mentioned that there had been reports of a bear in the area of the church. I said to her, “Well don’t look at me. I keep my clothes on around here.” She said that I would fit in quite well with her family as many liked to joke around. :-)

they haven’t started bear drills yet here in hokkaido, but they might be a good idea since we do, in fact, often have bears wandering around school grounds…

My school had bare drills.

Seems you would apply the opposite solution to fires and bears. Lock up vs exit the building.

We never had “Duck and Cover” drills, but once we were told not to go home for lunch because of a bear sighting in the adjoining park…