Loonie-Tunes -- November 28, 2018

One reader thinks heavy oil producers need to construct a six-foot-wide / thousand-mile long hockey rink from Alberta to Minot -- let the kids move western Canadian heavy oil to the US.
 
There's a reason the Canadian one-dollar coin is called a loonie. But that's not the end of the loonie-ness. From a reader who caught this on NPR: now that Canadians have banned "weapons" from schools, kids are being given 94-cent hockey pucks with which to defend themselves. I cannot make this up:

Hockey pucks: They're small, heavy and — one Michigan college thinks — might be the perfect weapon against an active shooter on campus.

Oakland University, a public school located in Rochester Hills, near Detroit, is distributing thousands of 94-cent hockey pucks for just that reason.

The distribution, which began earlier this month, stemmed from a March faculty active-shooter training session following February's shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school that left 17 dead.

A participant at the training asked the Oakland University Police Chief Mark Gordon what items people could use to defend themselves on the campus, which has a no-weapons policy.

A hockey puck was a "spur-of-the-moment idea that seemed to have some merit to it and it kind of caught on," Gordon said.

The faculty union followed up on the idea, purchasing 2,500 hockey pucks: 800 for union members and 1,700 for students, the Free Press reports.

The school conducts active-shooter training sessions multiple times a year, teaching the "Run, Hide, Fight" method which emphasizes fleeing an active-shooter situation above all else, hiding if fleeing isn't an option — and fighting if hiding isn't, either.

Now, the training will be "run, hide, throw." Or for those with hockey sticks: "skate, swing, shoot."

A hat trick will require three active shooters.

From an earlier post:

One reader thinks heavy oil producers need to construct a six-foot-wide / thousand-mile long hockey rink -- let the kids move western Canadian heavy oil from Alberta to Minot.