"Winning through intimidation..."

I moved from a big city in Texas to a small town in the lovely Texas hill country. I work in a neighboring town. Most of the residents of the hill country are lovely, conservative people. We believe in small government, gun rights, personal property rights, and all of the other conservative values. That's why it is strange that there is a gang in the public high school in the town I work in.

Yesterday all of the high school kids started telling their parents that the gang was threatening to start shooting people today. When I got to work this morning, it was all over Facebook that attendance was very low at school, that even a lot of teachers called in sick, and police were called to be inside and outside the school. Parents were calling the paper where I work with all of the rumors going around, and were very worried.

The kids were scared. Evidently these gang kids were telling certain other kids that they were going to be shot the next day, and others were texted the same. I found it all surreal that I had left the city to get away from this type of thing, but alas the city problems have made their way to our town.

And the gang? They are predominantly white and are Twilight-heads. They wear black and those strange contacts that make your eyes look red. Their gang is named the Wolfpack Gang, after the wolves on Twilight. Away from school, they are spotted around town as they wear wolf ears and tails...

Manipulation? Check. Terror? Check. Fear? Check. Power? Check.

I guess they won this one...