By Ellen Cameron
Staff Writer
Some kid saw police cruisers at the field house and assumed there was a drug bust.
Some kid starts chain text that there was a drug bust at the field house.
Michael Crowe writes about it on his facebook status.
Mike Pankonien sees it and facechats Daphne Chen.
Daphne Chen calls me.
I investigate.
I find dogs.
According to Daphne, who was still on the phone with me, my exact words upon entering the field house and seeing a policeman with a dog were “Hi, was there a drug bust here?”
I maintain she couldn’t have possibly heard clearly and that my exact words were far more eloquent, but they probably weren’t. I did discover, though, that what some kid had assumed was a drug bust going down in the field house—which seemed strange, given it was 9 pm on the Thursday night—was actually a canine training program.
I met the first two officers in the hallway outside the turf room, and met the dog they had just finished drilling, then got to watch as they ran an exercise with Hero. There were five dogs total, with their five handler officers, hence the five cars that were outside the field house, from Flowermound, Denton, Grapevine, and Coppell.
While it wasn’t as newsworthy as a mega drug bust, it was still interesting to watch. More interesting, though, was realizing how blown-up and out-of-proportional rumors can get. Really, CHS, get your facts straight.
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