You know, I’m as terrified of Axl Rose as the next guy, but this may be taking things just a little too far. 

Some people sing karaoke just beautifully.

Then there are the rest of us whose public singing talents range from fair through terrible to just plain scary.

But one school custodian’s attempts at song in Roxbury, Conn., went beyond scary to the point that a teacher thought she was being threatened over the school’s loudspeaker.

State police said the teacher went so far as to barricade herself inside a classroom on Dec. 12 when she mistook the custodian’s singing of a Guns N’ Roses song over the public address system for a threat.

The teacher at Booth Free School was working after hours and thought no one else was in the building.

Then she heard someone say over the loudspeaker that she was going to die.

Six Connecticut state troopers and three police dogs showed up at the school. They discovered three teenagers, one of them a custodian at the school, who had been playing karaoke over the public address system.

One of the teens had been singing “Welcome to the Jungle” into the microphone. The song’s lyrics, “You’re in the jungle baby; you’re gonna die,” convinced the teacher to set up her barricade.

Police said the teenagers were handcuffed for about 15 minutes while troopers investigated. In the end, no charges were filed despite the scary singing.

This vaguely reminds me of the time I did a nearly flawless rendition of the opening to “Crazy Train” by Black Sabbath over the PA at Kmart, and I ended up having terrorism charges filed against me by the U.S. government. The two incidents were completely unrelated, however, so I’m not entirely sure why I mention it. I guess I just couldn’t think of anything else to say.