Teenage mutant ninja counselor

A New Jersey school was locked down this week when a ninja was spotted running around outside the building.

Of course, it wasn't a real ninja--A real ninja would have been too stealthy to be spotted, duh

The Barnegat elementary school was shut down from 9 a.m. til about 9:30, riiiight about when administrators realized the bad-ass ninja was actually a camp counselor dressed in black karate attire carrying a plastic sword. Easy mistake!

The counselor was reportedly running late for a costume theme day at work.

Now, I've grudgingly written about two separate bomb threats at a middle school in my coverage area (on my deadline day) before, but had one of the local schools was shut down because of a ninja, that would have been another story...and a much more exciting one.