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THE MR. WEIR WHO CRIED FIRE
The Wilkinson Administration play with student's minds as 23 die in
panic
Wednesday 18 July 2001
In a day that can only be described as a tragedy, 23 students are dead and many more are injured after
a senseless stunt planned by the Wilkinson Administration. The Unofficial Bundy High
Newsletter's correspondent Johnno "Monkey-Wrench" Winchester remembers the fateful
morning as if it was yesterday (well, it was actually.) Here is his recollection of events:
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"The time was 11:03 AM and the school bells started to ring. Since my watch is exactly on the bell, I
was confused why the bells were going 2 minutes early. Then it hit me.
"FIRE!!!" I heard someone yell from the back of the room. Suddenly, the class had erupted into a
frenzy of chaos and panic. "QUICK!" yelled Mr. Humphreys, "Grab your books and run to the
door as quickly as possible!" In the stampede that followed, about 15 or so of the students were
being trampled by the bigger, stronger ones who were all trying to squeeze out of the small door at the
same time. "If you push harder, we'll all get out faster!" screamed Mr. Humphreys who was
starting to get crushed in the rush. Soon, many students had stopped trying to exit the class and had
started to use school supplies as weapons to injure their classmates so that they could exit the room
first. Then I felt a rush behind me and that is the last that I can remember up until when I regained
consciousness today in hospital."
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As horrific as Johnno's injuries may be (a broken collarbone, 5 broken ribs and a bruised spine), he is
among the lucky in a class which had 3 fatalities and left 5 others as paraplegics. The total number of
deaths for the whole of Bundy High is 23 students, 1 groundsman and 3 tuckshop ladies despite the
fact that there was no actual fires on the school premeses.
After contacting Dave Wilkinson (head of the Wilkinson Administration), it was revealed to The
Unofficial Bundy High Newsletter that this was actually all part of a "fire drill" being run by school
officials in conjuction with the Queensland Fire Brigade. Although seeming unlikely, this is actually
true. In fact the school had even proposed to burn down 'O' Block to make the whole drill seem more
life-like, but Mr. Weir's idea was soon voted down.
Even though the concern of most people was on the terrible loss of life from the incident, other valid
questions were raised by students. Speaking to an Unofficial Bundy High Newsletter reporter
on the oval as the drill was taking place, one student questioned the school's use of the air-raid siren -
a seemingly extreme siren to sound ("it's not as if the Germans are bombing us" said the boy.) Others
were also upset at the fact that the Wilkinson Administration decided to hold the drill IN THE 5-MINUTE
BREAK INSTEAD OF IN CLASS TIME and then punished students who were understandably late to
the next class.
The study into the incident will continue tomorrow.
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