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Default Why are schools dumping auto shop, wood shop, and metal shop?

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:59:17 -0500, Ignoramus27711
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On 2010-06-16, wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:32:58 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
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On 2010-06-16, Ed Huntress wrote:

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On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:28:31 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
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I had one of the 'Alpha males' try to attack me with a wood mallet
in
wood shop. I took it away from him. He tried to take it back but he
ended up with a 'very' sore wrist. Then he tried to punch me. I
blocked his swing, and cut his face with my class ring. Someone had
told the idiot that 'Nerds' were easy prey. ;-)

All I wanted to do was finsh my project. I only took HS wood
shop,
because I had already taken every other shop class availible.


I had a similar problem. I literally nailed the assholes hand to the
bench and told him Id hunt him down and kill him if he told the
teacher
who had done it.

His name wasn't Hay-Soose by any chance, was it? d8-)

Jeez, another exciting gummer whoppe...er, adventure.

Somewhere there's a guy who attacks people with something similar to a
wood
mallet and who has a nail-hole scar in his hand. Watch out for him, he's
trouble. d8-)

I do not understand what are you guys talking about.


He is blithering about my having nailed Don Springs hand to the bench in
shop class. He doesnt believe it.

Shrug.

Given the really wierd things he does believe...one has to assume he is
..well...not mentally healthy.

Shrug

Gunner

Oh, heck, Gunner, we believe you. As I suggested, I've read Ecclesiastes,
too, and I appreciate a good aphorism as much as the next guy.

I figure you've picked up your literary style from the Holy Handloaders for
Buddha and Discount House of Pistol Primers. d8-)


Did he ask the guy to hold the nail while he pounded it? Or did he
hold the guy's hand down with one hand, while he held the nail with
his other hand, and swung the hammer with his third hand? Somebody
should make a movie about this school he went to, where there are
bullies who one day beat up folks, and the next stand still to get
their hands nailed to benches by nerdy 4H types. No, not what you
think, the one that's for hard-up tellers of humiliating harebrained
hogwash.


Yes, the logistics of it seem difficult.

Maybe he used a nail gun?

i


Actually, as I recall, I punched him hard! in the kidney and when he
flopped over the bench, I picked up his arm, kneeled on it, and drove a
16p nail through the backside of his hand, palm down. I did pick a soft
spot between the bones..shrug. One hammer blow. I could swing a hammer
pretty well in those days. Helped Dad build our house. Got pretty good
with a hammer. Now if I had missed the nail..I would have done far more
damage. Shrug

Then I had a little talk with him, laid the hammer next to him on the
bench and walked away.

Shrug. But that was years ago. Now Im simply a harmless lovable
fuzzball. Really.

Warm and fuzzy sort of fellow.

Everyone knows this. You didnt get the memo?

Gunner, typing this with 2 cats in his lap. Warm, furry and purring
cats.



One could not be a successful Leftwinger without realizing that,
in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers
and mothers of Leftwingers, a goodly number of Leftwingers are
not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
Gunner Asch