Guess the state!

[theweaselking]

Substitute teacher does stage magic trick for middle school class, is fired for "practicing witchcraft"

Comments

[mrbankies.livejournal.com]

What a bunch of ignorant fucking savages.

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

Yup- that about sums up my reaction, too....

[publius1.livejournal.com]

Jesus. Fucking. Christ. On. A. Stick.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

And "OH NOES! He wasn't following the lesson plan!"

In my experience, a teacher's worth is generally inversely proportional to how closely they follow their fucking lesson plans.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

Ok, strike that -- that's for regular teachers, which he wasn't. he was a substitute teacher, and thus had NO BUSINESS following the lesson plan. A substitute teacher has one job: Babysitting the kids for 50 minutes. Keeping them occupied.

[stormfeather.livejournal.com]

Damnit, wrong state!

And also: gyah.

[unclebebby.livejournal.com]

not texas not texas not texas oh god please not texas *click on link* OH YES!

at this point I'm really just taking any victory I can find.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

It's never going to be Texas. "Guess The State" is ALWAYS either Ohio or Florida.

[unclebebby.livejournal.com]

how did they obtain that honor?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Rampant, persistent, long-term insanity, of a sort rarely seen outside their borders.

Basically, you'll get one crazy story out of Ohio or Florida for each crazy story from *the rest of the world combined*.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

You are so giving Texas short shrift. Read some Molly Ivins sometime!

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

I miss her.

[itlandm.livejournal.com]

"Wizardry." That's one for the record. Too bad he did not get it in writing.

[spazcat101.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, I am intensely embarrassed by the state in which I live. We're not all that crazy, I promise.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

99% of Floridians and Ohioites make the other 1% look bad.

[spazcat101.livejournal.com]

It might even be the other way around... it's just that somehow, that lunatic fringe gets all the media attention. Squeaky wheel, I suppose.

[jirel.livejournal.com]

We are SO not all that crazy. Although the people around me may DRIVE me crazy. :)

[spazcat101.livejournal.com]

Amen to that.

[ambug666.livejournal.com]

Well, I think the problem all stems from him weighing the same as a duck...

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

THEY dressed me up like this!

[theamaranth.livejournal.com]

so are all clowns who make balloon animals going to be strung up on crosses and burned now for practicing witchcraft?

or perhaps the water-shooting-out-of-flower-in-lapel is a tool of the devil, and thus they should be thrown into a lake tied with boulders?

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Sweet gods of mercy - a witchcraft accusation! In the 21st century! it comes to something when you can't tell the difference between a hoax and reality

The phrase "weapons-grade stupidity" also occurs

[leighdb.livejournal.com]

First of all, that reporter needs to be smacked around for shitty writing. "Now, Piculas believes the incident may have bewitched his ability to get a job anywhere else." OMGSOCLEVAR

Die in a fire, plzkthx.

Second of all, apparently we should coin a new aphorism: "There are fools, damn fools, and then there's Florida."

[glitteringlynx.livejournal.com]

I clicked thinking "Oh god.. don't tell me it's Florida..." and laughed out loud when the page loaded.