Students could not get into a California high school on Friday after vandals plugged locks on all exterior gates and doors with super-strength glue.
”A teacher who always gets there early called me on my cellphone and said, ‘Guess what?”’ said Carlsbad High School principal Margaret Stanchi. ”But I didn’t guess this.”
Roughly 100 doors were sealed shut before the first staff arrived, Stanchi said.
”The locks are so small that all they’d have needed to do was put the point of the tube in and squeeze a little,” she said. ”It doesn’t take much to stop you from putting your key in the lock.”
Surveillance video taken at the school overnight showed several people milling around the campus, but school officials and police were unable to identify any suspects immediately, police said.
”Someone’s going to tell one of their friends sooner or later,” said Carlsbad police Lieutenant Kelly Cain.
Custodial staff quickly unsealed the lock on a building with 27 classrooms, but the rest of the school’s 3 000 students were sent to sit in the gym until their classrooms were opened, one by one. — Sapa-AP