Posted on 12/21/2007 8:53:04 AM PST by subterfuge
A second-grade teacher at Forest City Elementary School in Altamonte Springs has been placed on leave after he, by mistake, drove to school with a Red Rider BB rifle on top of his station wagon.
Jon Diesbourg was sent home yesterday after being questioned by Altamonte Springs police.
He told them his wife had used the BB gun to separate pet pigs because they had gotten into a fight. She had set the rifle down on his Ford Escort station wagon, and he, unknowingly drove it to work, according to police.
The BB gun was still there, on or near the car's luggage rack, when a parent spotted it yesterday on school property. A school official then called police.
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The district investigation, she said, would determine whether the BB gun is a weapon.
Diesbourg is on a paid leave of absence, she said.
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Journalistic malractice is standard opperating procedure in the MSM.
We need a watching the watchmen report on each and every one of those slimes.
Exactly right.
I agree. I actually know a family that has two pet pigs (pot bellied pigs) and they are very cool pets.
This guy is just a friggin idiot!
Government schools will now gladly send this poor guy to prison over nothing.
Government schools are evil.
What utter Bullshiitte! Hell, we used to inspect each others shotguns in the parking lot after school. Then head out to the rice fields to waste as many water moccasins as we could!
The liberal pukes who run our public schools are causing the wussification of this country.
I was way out in the country doing some work at a house one day and pot bellied pig trotted up and kept me company for the hour I was there. He was as bad as a spoiled dog wanting to be scratched behind his ears and tossing his head at me whenever I stopped.
Sheridan .20 Bluestreak is a great backyard rodent controller.
Good point. But what do you call it? It ain’t a pistol.
25 years ago in rural Virginia, when I was in high school, a third of the school was out on the first day of deer season. If you brought a note from your parents, it was an EXCUSED absence! There were guns all over campus, probably 30 or more rifles and shotguns in trucks on any given fall or winter day. And there was never even a hint of a shooting, just a couple of fistfights a year.
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“Government schools will now gladly send this poor guy to prison over nothing.
Government schools are evil.”
Good thing his kids aren’t homeschooled, they might walk into a church and start killing people like the former homeschooler in Colorado.
Sorry, but the broad brush can paint both ways.
In my high school, even in the post-9/11, post-columbine world, everyone was really lax about weapons. Kids definitely had shotguns in their cars or trucks, most of the students and a number of teachers carried pocketknives in all sizes, we constructed a potato cannon in physics class and the teacher conveniently told us that it would be sitting in the bed of his pickup truck on the last day of class since he wasn’t officially allowed to give it to any of the students. I guess that’s what happens when you still live in the mostly redneck middle of nowhere...
No doubt. When the story relates how some **concerned** parents saw the "weapon" I envision a SWAT team showing up, surrounding the "weapon", as if it were a living breathing perp, and demanding that it give itself up.
"STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING RIGHT THERE!! PUT YOUR BBs DOWN AND ASSUME THE POSITION----NOW!!
Sniff. That's beautiful...I gotta go...sniff....
LOL! Future dinner at the least.
we did the same.
Cool. Good to hear we weren't the only ones running around with automatic/assault rifle/"weapons" having some fun.
Shoot (no pun intended) Can’t view it from here.
I would like to see a list of how we shour PUNISH the politically correct.
What is a proper punishment for the Ritalin Giving Obsessed teacher.
What is a proper punsihment for an administrator lacking common sense.
Same here for the late 1970s. And we all carried 4" blade, folding knives on our belts.
Shoot, I had a Jr. High American History teacher illustrate the entire history of the USA, by bringing in his antique and reproduction firearms collections. That was cool, from matchlocks to a Henry rimfire to a semi-auto Thompson to an M-16.
He should have brought the pigs; then he would be in real trouble.
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