Brickbat: Talking with Your Hands

Charles Oliver | 2.23.2017 4:00 AM

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A teacher at Michigan's Bangor High School has resigned after she was recorded duct-taping a student to his desk. The teacher reportedly said the student moves his arms when he talks and it was distracting.

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Bird Person 10 years ago

You know who else moved his arms when he talked?
1. Adans smith 10 years ago
  
  Elvis?
  1. gaoxiaen 10 years ago
    
    Everybody with Italian blood?
2. Wasteland Wanderer 10 years ago
  
  Deaf people?
3. Trigger Hippie 10 years ago
  
  Joe Biden when standing behind a moderately attractive woman?
  1. Libertarian 10 years ago
    
    And girls. Don't forget the girls.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd8o3WUKP8M
    1. Trigger Hippie 10 years ago
      
      *shudders*
      
      Christ, that man is creepy. Selective editing or not, just seeing that pissed me off...
      
      See, Oliver?! That's how it's done!
4. Fist of Etiquette 10 years ago
  
  A gay!
5. Mr Lizard 10 years ago
  
  Skeletor?
6. Radioactive 10 years ago
  
  Robbie the Robot?
7. Get To Da Chippah 10 years ago
  
  Jim Henson?
8. Calvin Coolidge 10 years ago
  
  Artie Bucco from The Sopranos. Not a sentence came out of his mouth that wasn't accompanied by some grand, two-handed flourish. Trying to impersonate him is exhausting.
9. Scarecrow Repair & Chippering 10 years ago
  
  The robot on Lost in Space?
  1. Radioactive 10 years ago
    
    Danger Will Robinson!!!!
Libertarian 10 years ago

I'm normally not one to stand up for government employees, but from what little info there is in the article this does sound like it was a light-hearted joke/prank by the teacher. Perhaps she shouldn't have done it, but I can see something similar happening back in the dark ages when I was in high school.
1. Radioactive 10 years ago
  
  then they would have used barbed wire...
2. Brandybuck 10 years ago
  
  Should have been duct taped to the wall!
3. Robert 10 years ago
  
  That's the impression I got too. I guess Charles has a quota to fill. But then, why not fill it occasionally w something to laugh about like this? They don't all have to be nut punches or anti-gov't ammo.
Trigger Hippie 10 years ago

In all fairness to the teacher, revealed footage of the kid proved him to be wicked annoying.

http://giant.gfycat.com/DeepHeartyCockroach.gif
1. Libertarian 10 years ago
  
  Appears to be an especially widespread problem in New England.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvaRGiMWRaE
  1. Radioactive 10 years ago
    
    yes, we have a serious arm waving epidemic here in the Northeast, but it usually wans in the evening when everyone's arms get tired from all that waving...
    1. UnCivilServant 10 years ago
      
      Don't be silly, the arm musculature is so overdeveloped that they involuntarily gesticulate in their sleep.
      1. Radioactive 10 years ago
        
        on the plus side, duct tape sales are through the roof!
JR Robble Dobbs 10 years ago

Is no one bothered that the police are involved in this. If this trend continues we are going to need a lot more police officers.
1. Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon 10 years ago
  
  No problem. They just happened to be there searching lockers for illegal aliens.
Fist of Etiquette 10 years ago

...I don't even know her high school!
1. AdamJ 10 years ago
  
  Hey-O!
2. Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon 10 years ago
  
  Is it Induction or Deduction if I figured out "Bangor" from Fist's comment?
Jerryskids 10 years ago

Duct-taping a kid to his seat? Sounds like that teacher's a little crazy. Which of course makes it a violation of the ADA to fire her or even discipline her. Raises and promotions all around!
Calvin Coolidge 10 years ago

Anti-Italian discrimination!

Oh, wait, are Italians now considered white people? Because that would make them racists by definition, and thus deplorables beyond hope of salvation.
1. UnCivilServant 10 years ago
  
  That depends, are we talking northern Italians, or Southern Italians?
AlmightyJB 10 years ago

Wave your hands in the air like you don't care
1. Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon 10 years ago
  
  Sometimes I care too much
  
  *puts hands in pockets, kicks pebble, walks away
2. UnCivilServant 10 years ago
  
  I can't be bothered.
crufus 10 years ago

I remember when the wrestling team wrapped the team manager in athletic tape, stuffed him in a duffel bag, and put him in a locker as punishment for forgetting the team uniforms for an away meet. There was no teacher or coach involved, so I guess it was OK.

Good times.
1. Radioactive 10 years ago
  
  sooo they all had to wrestle naked? seems like they might have enjoyed that...I mean being wrestlers and all...
  1. Robert 10 years ago
    
    No, they wrapped themselves too, & wrestled as The Mummies.

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