This was inevitable, and anyone who works with children should know that. There’s no way that kids are not going to make these kinds of mistakes, and even trying to save it with a plausible story won’t save the kids from spreading the cooler story around. The agents have to know this by now.
“Yes, I’ll let you talk. That way when they don’t believe you, you’ll the one who gets in trouble for being bad at keeping secrets, not me.”
I would have thrown in something like “They had helmets so they looked like soldiers.”
“They were shooting a movie.”
“They take security very seriously up there.”
“They were a Civil War re-enactment group with very spotty research.”
Nice save.
This was inevitable, and anyone who works with children should know that. There’s no way that kids are not going to make these kinds of mistakes, and even trying to save it with a plausible story won’t save the kids from spreading the cooler story around. The agents have to know this by now.