I was working on some of my ADS-B flight tracker software when our house was buzzed by a helicopter. A few minutes later, there was another. Cool! I pulled up the tracking data, the maps, etc., and made a few screenshots…

Their callsigns, N713TV and N119TV, suggested they were with two different TV stations and had been monitoring rush hour traffic when both received a call and turned south… right over our house. The followed a small highway an exit or two away, turned west at the offramp, then settled into orbits around a collection of area … schools?

Yes, schools – the high school in particular.

I asked my wife to check the news. Headline? “15-Year-Old Student Charged For Bringing Loaded Handgun To Howard County High School.”

There’s hardly a day when I don’t consider my daughter in here second year as a high school teacher. She’s a few miles to the south-east of there, in a less well-off county closer to Washington, D.C. …

Reservoir High School, Fulton, MD. A 15-year-old. No shooting; he was seen ditching something in the woods…

Yeah.