Hogworts Here I come!

Slow Motion · 07-05-2008 12:50PM #1

"Florida Substitute Teacher Fired, Accused of Wizardry

A Florida teacher may have to pull an unemployment check out of his hat after performing magic in front of students, according to reports.

Jim Piculas said he made a toothpick disappear and reappear in front of students at the Rushe Middle School in Land 'O Lakes, Fla., Local6.com reported. He said he later got a call from the supervisor of teachers, saying he had been accused of wizardry.

"I get a call the middle of the day from head of supervisor of substitute teachers. He says, 'Jim, we have a huge issue. You can't take any more assignments. You need to come in right away,'" he told Local6.com.

Piculas said he’s concerned the incident may prevent him from being considered for future jobs."

Those crazy merkins!

Edit: Link http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354327,00.html

Defenestrate · 07-05-2008 12:53PM

More madness, what a load of old hufflepuff!

Rb · 07-05-2008 12:54PM

Lol America.

mukki · 07-05-2008 12:57PM

rb_ie wrote: »

Lol America.

+1

america is funny

Jigsaw · 07-05-2008 12:58PM

Early retirement so?

Lots of time to brush up on the auld quidditch.

Doctor DooM · 07-05-2008 01:00PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eERDW1d5joQ

120_Minutes · 07-05-2008 01:09PM

SDooM wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eERDW1d5joQ

shes an enemy of the lord more like.

07-05-2008 01:11PM

Damn mugggles.

keefg · 07-05-2008 01:29PM

I am not sure if public drowning was used during the middle ages but if so I think it should be brought back for people like the "woman" * in that clip.

I would glady pay for a ticket, an overpriced hot dog and a warm beer to see that

* After seeing the flesh mountain in that clip, I use the term "woman" in the loosest possible sense.

bluto63 · 07-05-2008 01:36PM

Isn't gluttony a sin? She seems to have abused the hell outa that one...

Naos · 07-05-2008 02:00PM

Words fail me.

Sherifu · 07-05-2008 02:05PM

American fags.

Duggy747 · 07-05-2008 02:10PM

That man is evil I tells you, EVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLL!!!

Jesus will judge him when he comes back to judge us all.

Judge Jesus, his courts are real, your sins are real...........his rulings are final!

Praise Judge Jesus!!

Kur4mA · 07-05-2008 02:32PM

OH NOES NOT THE WIZARDRY!!!??!!111one!11eleventy!1 :eek:

Sanjuro · 07-05-2008 02:49PM

Turning water into wine, raising the dead, turning a small amount of loaves and fishes into masses of food... wasn't Jesus just like... the ultimate wizard?

biko · 07-05-2008 04:40PM

Pah, easy trick. A bit of sticky tape is all you need.
There is no rolleyes big enough to post when I hear about their Christian fundamentalist idiocies.

Kintarō Hattori · 07-05-2008 05:55PM

rb_ie wrote: »

Lol America.

It is a very very strange place. Hmnn we should get a list together of all the crazy shenanigans from there that have made it into threads here on After Hours. It'd make for some interesting reading.

07-05-2008 06:52PM

I don't understand this. Can someone explain to me what exactly he's being accused of?

It says wizadry. This is on dictionary.com as "the art, skill, or accomplishments of a wizard".

So he's getting sacked for being a wizard? Can we strap him to a rock, throw him in a lake and see if he floats?

I'm seriously confused... I'm lost .. I'm baffled by American people.

Insect Overlord · 07-05-2008 09:12PM

Perhaps wizardry comes under their banner of a religious practice? As far as I know teh rellijuns aren't allowed in American schools. Same as in France.

EamonnKeane · 07-05-2008 09:17PM

SDooM wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eERDW1d5joQ

"A witch done put a Engorgement Chorm on me"

Caoimhín · 07-05-2008 09:19PM

Sanjuro wrote: »

Turning water into wine, raising the dead, turning a small amount of loaves and fishes into masses of food... wasn't Jesus just like... the ultimate wizard?

You will only get the god squad going with comments like that. Theyll be on here shouting about god and us going to hell and christ and mary and edmund...........

Gordon · 07-05-2008 09:24PM

Sanjuro wrote: »

Turning water into wine, raising the dead, turning a small amount of loaves and fishes into masses of food... wasn't Jesus just like... the ultimate wizard?

I think he was more like a Warlock.

MCMLXXXIII · 07-05-2008 09:43PM

Love the video...very typical of the "hillbillies" of the Southern US (very much including Florida).

Wisardry falls under religious views.

Who cares.

Who told on this guy anyway? You think it was one of the kids?...or an angry parent (perhaps that morbidly obese woman?) that ignorantly thinks this man is teaching works of the devil?

...and who took the complaint seriously?

...and why didn't the Supervisor of Substitute Teachers defend him?

...and why was he banned from getting new assignments without due process (as guaranteed in the US Constitution) ESPECIALLY (if) it's at a public institution?

As I see more and more, I now know why my parents sent me to private education when we moved here.

Riddle101 · 07-05-2008 10:40PM

Sanjuro wrote: »

Turning water into wine, raising the dead, turning a small amount of loaves and fishes into masses of food... wasn't Jesus just like... the ultimate wizard?

No Satan would be the ultimate wizard, Water and Wine pah! Satan can possess you, torture you, bend your mind to his will and make you suffer a fate more worse then death. He can manipulate fire and has risen to the surface more then once. Jesus, fish and chips are nice and all but i find a nice steak dinner to be more desirable

Anyway i find the women in that clip to be quite humourous, has anyone told her she looks like a freak of nature and a sin against god herself

07-05-2008 11:01PM

Off-topic, but did anyone ever see that clip from the American Wife Swap with the devout christian. Now that woman was crazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCh2FXzD6R4

"I'm a God Warrior!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbR2h-sxTpY

kowloon · 07-05-2008 11:58PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_l5ntikaU

biko · 08-05-2008 09:34AM

Maybe they thought he was a Grand Wizard, the title given to the overall leader of the earliest form of the Ku Klux Klan?

SimpleSam06 · 08-05-2008 10:46AM

eo980 wrote: »

we should get a list together of all the crazy shenanigans from there that have made it into threads here on After Hours.

Just read Fark, its even got its own Florida tag. It does defy belief that a class full of students and their supervisors can't tell the difference between sleight of hand and "witchcraft" of some sort in a first world country. It sounds like some of the news you'd hear coming out of some bass ackwards sub saharan country.

I've a good mind to go over there and cast the curse of the receding chin on them, where you can only be attracted to family members. Oops, never mind.

This is why those nutcases were driven out of Europe in the first place, I can't imagine medieval warlords would have much time for this kind of rot. Remember kids, stamp out a cult near you.

Sizzler · 08-05-2008 10:59AM

He would have got away with it if it wasn't for those pesky kids...

FunkyChicken · 08-05-2008 12:10PM

oh floreda

metaoblivia · 08-05-2008 01:51PM

Oh Land O'Lakes. It's right up there with Okahumpka and Howie-in-the-Hills.
I'm a native Floridian and teachers at my schools performed acts of wizardry all the time... some even got drunk and gave us the keys to the driver's ed cars. They never got fired. +1 for tenure. :pac:

Hogworts Here I come!

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