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 8 years ago

You know who else moved his arms when he talked?
1. Adans smith 8 years ago
  
  Elvis?
  1. gaoxiaen 8 years ago
    
    Everybody with Italian blood?
2. Wasteland Wanderer 8 years ago
  
  Deaf people?
3. Trigger Hippie 8 years ago
  
  Joe Biden when standing behind a moderately attractive woman?
  1. Libertarian 8 years ago
    
    And girls. Don't forget the girls.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd8o3WUKP8M
    1. Trigger Hippie 8 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 8 years ago
  
  A gay!
5. Mr Lizard 8 years ago
  
  Skeletor?
6. Radioactive 8 years ago
  
  Robbie the Robot?
7. Get To Da Chippah 8 years ago
  
  Jim Henson?
8. Calvin Coolidge 8 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 8 years ago
  
  The robot on Lost in Space?
  1. Radioactive 8 years ago
    
    Danger Will Robinson!!!!
Libertarian 8 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 8 years ago
  
  then they would have used barbed wire...
2. Brandybuck 8 years ago
  
  Should have been duct taped to the wall!
3. Robert 8 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 8 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 8 years ago
  
  Appears to be an especially widespread problem in New England.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvaRGiMWRaE
  1. Radioactive 8 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 8 years ago
      
      Don't be silly, the arm musculature is so overdeveloped that they involuntarily gesticulate in their sleep.
      1. Radioactive 8 years ago
        
        on the plus side, duct tape sales are through the roof!
JR Robble Dobbs 8 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 8 years ago
  
  No problem. They just happened to be there searching lockers for illegal aliens.
Fist of Etiquette 8 years ago

...I don't even know her high school!
1. AdamJ 8 years ago
  
  Hey-O!
2. Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon 8 years ago
  
  Is it Induction or Deduction if I figured out "Bangor" from Fist's comment?
Jerryskids 8 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 8 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 8 years ago
  
  That depends, are we talking northern Italians, or Southern Italians?
AlmightyJB 8 years ago

Wave your hands in the air like you don't care
1. Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon 8 years ago
  
  Sometimes I care too much
  
  *puts hands in pockets, kicks pebble, walks away
2. UnCivilServant 8 years ago
  
  I can't be bothered.
crufus 8 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 8 years ago
  
  sooo they all had to wrestle naked? seems like they might have enjoyed that...I mean being wrestlers and all...
  1. Robert 8 years ago
    
    No, they wrapped themselves too, & wrestled as The Mummies.

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