Students carry their books around in strollers, shopping carts, and even an old POPCORN MACHINE

Students in an Idaho school district have been carrying their books in shopping carts, coolers, and even popcorn machines after backpacks were banned in response to a gun threat last week. 

The Jefferson County school district announced on September 23 that students will no longer be allowed to bring backpacks to school or carry them around hallways after a 13-year-old at Rigby Middle School was discovered to have brought a gun inside her backpack that day.

The new rule hasn’t been taken well by students, who have mocked it by finding creative and ridiculous way to tote around their belongings, carrying books inside everything from wagons to an aquarium.

Something new: Students in an Idaho school distrcit have been carrying their books in odd ways after backpacks were banned

Something new: Students in an Idaho school distrcit have been carrying their books in odd ways after backpacks were banned

New rule: The Jefferson County school district announced on September 23 that students will no longer be allowed to bring backpacks to school or carry them around hallways

New rule: The Jefferson County school district announced on September 23 that students will no longer be allowed to bring backpacks to school or carry them around hallways 

He's poppin'! So the teens have been using things like shopping carts or even popcorn machines to mock the rule

He’s poppin’! So the teens have been using things like shopping carts or even popcorn machines to mock the rule

Something's fishy here: One student even used a glass aquarium to carry her stuff around

Something’s fishy here: One student even used a glass aquarium to carry her stuff around

Impetus: A 13-year-old at Rigby Middle School in Jefferson County, Idaho brought a gun to school in her backpack on September 23, prompting the rule change

Impetus: A 13-year-old at Rigby Middle School in Jefferson County, Idaho brought a gun to school in her backpack on September 23, prompting the rule change

EastIdahoNews.com reported on last Thursday’s gun threat, writing that a 13-year-old girl was taken into custody after being found with the gun in the bathroom, having brought it to school in her backpack.

No shots were fired.

Later that day, Monica Pauley, a spokeswoman for Jefferson School District 251, told the outlet that the district was insituting a new ban on backpacks in response.

The rule applies to two local middle schools and two local high schools, though the elementary schools are exempt. 

‘We are doing this as a precautionary measure,’ she said.

But left without a way to carry all of their books, binders, notebooks, and others supplies to and from school — and from class to class — students at Rigby High School have found creative ways to get around the ban. 

Protest: Students at Rigby High School have found creative ways to get around the ban

Protest: Students at Rigby High School have found creative ways to get around the ban

Some have used hampers and laundry baskets instead of backpacks

Some have used hampers and laundry baskets instead of backpacks

Ridiculous: Some have used hampers and laundry baskets instead of backpacks

Going viral: Savannah Bagley, a student at Rigby High, has shared videos on TikTok demonstrating her classmates' ingenuity

Going viral: Savannah Bagley, a student at Rigby High, has shared videos on TikTok demonstrating her classmates’ ingenuity

A few have been dragging wagons around the hallways

A few have been dragging wagons around the hallways

Seems inefficient? A few have been dragging wagons around the hallways

Hot! One student even carrying around an unplugged microwaves

Hot! One student even carrying around an unplugged microwaves 

Savannah Bagley, a student at Rigby High, has shared videos on TikTok demonstrating her classmates’ ingenuity.

Bagley filmed them in the hallways and cafeteria, showing the myriad ways students found to lug around their books while mocking the administration.

One pushed supplies in a children’s Fisher-Price shopping cart, while another used an actual grocery store shopping cart.

One girl literally tied her books to her back, while another carried them in grocery baskets and wooden crates.

Several dragged around hampers and laundry baskets, wagons, and in one case, an organizer cart.

But certainly the most outrageous methods students found to carry their books were inside a popcorn machine, an aquarium, a wheeled cooler, a microwave, and a pink child’s stroller.  

Other items have included a wheeled cooler and a shopping basket

Other items have included a wheeled cooler and a shopping basket

Getting creative: Other items have included a wheeled cooler and a shopping basket

Iconic: Another teen made use of an old red wagon to drag his stuff around

Iconic: Another teen made use of an old red wagon to drag his stuff around 

Cracking up: TikTok commenters are finding the students' creativity quite funny

Cracking up: TikTok commenters are finding the students’ creativity quite funny

One wrote that 'the shopping cart has me rolling' and another said 'pls this is hilarious'

One wrote that ‘the shopping cart has me rolling’ and another said ‘pls this is hilarious’

The best way? But many were put off that this was the best measure proposed to prevent gun violence

The best way? But many were put off that this was the best measure proposed to prevent gun violence

Cutting out the middle man: This teen literally strapped her books directly to her back

Cutting out the middle man: This teen literally strapped her books directly to her back

TikTok commenters are finding the students’ creativity quite funny, with one writing that ‘the shopping cart has me rolling’ and another saying ‘pls this is hilarious.’

But many were put off that this was the best measure proposed to prevent gun violence.

‘Ban anything but the problem,’ wrote one, while another said, ‘They will do anything but pass legislation.

‘American will do everything but ban guns…’ wrote one more.

‘Cause backpacks are clearly the problem here,’ snarked another.

source: dailymail.co.uk