I wonder if this sort of thing might be misused by school administrators in order to conduct searches when they can’t be justified any other way:
Officials locked down two Randolph County schools for a brief time Thursday morning.
Police lifted the lockdown when they determined the school was safe.
The suspicious object turned out to be a baseball bat.
But deputy, it looked like a gun. Really.
(EDIT: The Asheboro Courier-Tribune has more.)