{"id":696,"date":"2007-04-20T10:17:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T15:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/696"},"modified":"2007-04-20T10:17:21","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T15:17:21","slug":"in-other-news-eddie-izzard-will-be-signing-autographs-today-at-the-oakland-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/696","title":{"rendered":"In Other News, Eddie Izzard Will Be Signing Autographs Today At The Oakland Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Owww…The Stupid…It Hurts….!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Man in wig, skirt spurs Cranbrook lockdown<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Only a day after students at Virginia Tech were locked in classrooms as a gunman killed 32 of their classmates, Cranbrook Schools in Bloomfield Hills went into lockdown Monday morning after parents reported seeing a suspicious man dressed as a woman near a campus bus stop.<\/p>\n

Police described a white male about 6 feet tall, wearing a gray or blond wig, lipstick, a flowered skirt, a dark coat and high heels.<\/p>\n

Parents first spotted the man standing near the Kingswood School parking lot around 7:50 a.m., school officials said.<\/p>\n

"He was walking up the lot toward Kingswood School," said Lt. Paul Myszenski with the Bloomfield Hills Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n

While he was not observed doing anything illegal, authorities decided to lock down schools after 8 a.m. Students were told to sit in their classrooms with lights off as police did a room-byroom search.<\/p>\n

Pam Friedman, a parent from West Bloomfield Township, was attending a mothers’ council meeting with Robin Rosenbaum and Elaine Robins, also of West Bloomfield, when the building they were in – the Institute of Science – was also locked down.<\/p>\n

Friedman was able to speak with her son, Jake, a 17-year-old junior, by cellphone, who informed his mother he was OK.<\/p>\n

"I wasn’t nervous at all after I talked with him," Friedman said.<\/p>\n

DeAnn Ervin of Birmingham – whose 12-year-old daughter, Noa, attends Kingswood School – learned of the lockdown when other mothers began calling her.<\/p>\n

Lockdowns aren’t that unusual, she said. The school practices at least twice a year.<\/p>\n

Ervin was confident the school would protect her daughter. "They communicate a lot with us," she said. "I was more worried about her emotional health than physical."<\/p>\n

Cranbrook’s department of public safety took part in the room-by-room search at Kingswood. No one was arrested.<\/p>\n

Officials also checked the grounds "where people can hide," said Thomas Sias, the school’s director of public safety, but were unable to find the man.<\/p>\n

"The problem is you have seconds to react," Sias said. "It’s a rather daunting task to check it all."<\/p>\n

Sias praised the students who were locked in classrooms for about 30 minutes. "When we were walking the halls, you could hear a pin drop," he said.<\/p>\n

At 9:20 a.m., the lockdown was lifted, and by 9:30 a.m., buses packed with students were rolling through the campus.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In other news, schools all across Lower Fuckingnuts County were in a state of lockdown after a woman with a crew cut was seen wearing a leather jacket and driving a Harley-Davidson low rider down Main Street…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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