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Tue Dec 14 09:12:57 PM EST 2021
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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.