'Fresh Prince' theme song forces PA school lockdown
Everyone on the planet knows the words to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song.
'Fresh Prince' theme song forces PA school lockdown
Everyone on the planet knows the words to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song. It's infamous. It's parodied constantly. It's been translated into a bajillion languages. There's no way anyone could get the lyrics confused for a school shooting threat, right? Wrong.
An Ambridge Area High School student, 19-year-old Travis Clawson, quotes a passage from the song in his voicemail greeting, saying "...just shootin' some b-ball outside of the school." When the receptionist from his eye doctor's office called him on Thursday to confirm an appointment, she thought that the message was a warning, indicating that he was busy "shooting people" outside of his school. She called Ambridge school officials, prompting a swift lockdown of some schools in Western Pennsylvania.
Economy police finally made contact with Clawson late morning and discovered he was “chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool” in the guidance office of Ambridge’s high school, which then was swarmed by officers who took him into custody.
James Mann, acting police chief in Ambridge, said Clawson was interviewed by police and he told them he meant no harm and that his message was just him imitating Will Smith’s rap intro to the show that ran on NBC from 1990-96 and now is rerun on ABC Family. All six seasons also are out on DVD.
This is something that really happened.
When a couple of guys, they were up to no good, starting makin' trouble in ma neighborhood...I got in one light fight and my ma she got scared, she said, "Ur movin' with ya auntie and uncle in Bel Air!"— CaptAwesome- 19 years old in high school?— flavadog6
- watching Fresh Prince reruns makes you a little slow, it seems. — ekw555
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Sounds like that moronic receptionist needs to go back to school and take a basic competence course. She should be arrested for wasting taxpayers money and police time.— JLH - Bajillion?? Seriously?— JusWonderin
"Economy police??" Are the bargain basement police force???- HA! I was thinking something similar. — miller71
- and here i thought the TSA people were dolts— raynesrock
- NO,the economy police are making sure your not splurging on purchases you dont need..— trimski1
Every single facet of this incident is laughable. By the way, can I rent some "Economy Police?"— verve- So what punishment is the receptionist getting?— mj355
- The receptionist should be held accountable for her stupid actions.— kelz1966
- geez good thing this kid didn't have some biggie on there— Iknowyourider
- lol... Economy is the name of the Borough— IMO112
- Did you know the TV theme song has a REMOVED VERSE?
I begged and pleaded with a day after day
But she packed my suit case and sent me on my way
She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket
I put my walkman on and said might as welll kick it
First class yo this is bad
Drinkin orange juice out of a champain glass
Is this what the people of Bel-air life like
Hmmmmmmm this might be alright
But wait I hear a frenchie Bushwa an all the
Is this the kind of place that they would send this cool cat
I dont think so Ill see when I get there
So I hope they re prepared for the prince of Bel-air
Well ah the plane landed and when I came out
There was a dude looked like a cop standin there with my name out
I aint tryin to get aressted yet I just got here
So I sprang with the quickness like lighting and disappeared— DrewDown91
