High school teacher 'lined up terrified students and fired blanks at them' during class

[n2doc]

By LAURA PULLMAN
PUBLISHED: 14:20 EST, 22 April 2012

High-school welding classes always carry a high risk of injury but last week one lesson took a bizarrely dangerous turn.

In an apparent attempt to get his students' attention one welding teacher lined up his class against a wall, pulled a gun from his waistband and fired multiple rounds of blanks.

The twelve students allegedly feared for their lives when Manuael Dillow fired off between four and ten rounds at them during a welding class.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133587/High-school-teacher-lined-terrified-students-fired-blanks-class.html#ixzz1sp520b1p

[nolabear]

1. Okay he ought to be put UNDER a jail.

My God.

Btw wonder why it's a Daily Mail article? Did the US media just not bother?

[Electric Monk]

2. dupe

Wed http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002580231

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. That's a surefire career-ender.

Adios, Manny.

[leftyohiolib]

4. no shit wtf was he thinking

[Honeycombe8]

5. Why does he have a gun w/blanks in school? Also, could this be a teacher melt-down?

With all that teachers have been going through, this could be a melt down of sorts. The stress and pressure can get to you.

[Blue_Tires]

11. At first I thought he just used a track-and-field starter pistol

But I don't think those are even used anymore, at least not in high school events...Although at one time, every high school football/track coach/volunteer referee had one...

[dems_rightnow]

20. They've been used at every HS track meet I've been at

And I've been to a bunch of them.

[Initech]

6. He needs to be charged with attempted murder. What a dumbass.

[markpkessinger]

19. Dumbass to be sure, but...

... attempted murder? When the round fired were blanks? Reckless endangerment, to be sure (since firing blanks can, depending on how close the gun was to the person being fired at, cause cause things like burn injuries), but attempted murder? No judge would allow such a charge, and no jury would ever convict on it under these circumstances.

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7. My old woodshop teacher used to whack us with a billy club.

The ironic part is, it was with one of many from his collection of confiscated billy clubs that the students made.

[unkachuck]

8. "...lined up his class against a wall, pulled a gun from his waistband and fired multiple rounds..."

....I'm surprised no one shot him in self-defense? This makes my argument that the age for carry laws should be lowered to sixteen if we want our children to be safe....

[saras]

9. One of the very few problems genuinely solved by concealed carry...

I can just picture four students, from other classes, coming through four windows at once, all aiming at his center of mass.

[n2doc]

13. Because planning for and carrying out the killing of another human has no bad effects

[saras]

23. No, because if he thought half of his students were packing, he might not have been so stupid

... or he may have been that stupid anyways and earned his advancement to the next life.

[HopeHoops]

10. Yeah, that's going to help. What a douche nozzle.

[Arugula Latte]

12. What.The.Eff.

[Rittermeister]

14. What no one's mentioning

is that blanks are hardly safe. If I loaded a pistol full of blanks (or a rifle or a musket, for that matter) and fired it at you from six feet away, you'd go to the hospital with severe burns from the flaming, yet unconsumed particles of gunpowder striking your skin faster than the speed of sound. If I held it to your head, you'd go to the morgue. This moron needs to go down for assault with a deadly weapon, minimum.

[Arugula Latte]

15. There was an actor --Jon-Erik Hexum -- who died in the 80s from a "blank"

He held the gun to his head and pulled the trigger, probably thinking nothing would happen because it was a blank.

[sarcasmo]

16. Turn in that tea party membership badge.

[just1voice]

17. Typical Virginia repuke scenario

Did you read what some Virginia repuke's response was? Here is what a typical Virginia repuke said about the guy firing a gun at his son: 'I support Mr. Dillow 100-percent and my son and I will be in the court room when he goes to support him.'

[n2doc]

18. I feel sorry for the kid

Sounds like he has a real d-bag dad.

[fascisthunter]

22. probably would beat the kid if he didn't go

[fascisthunter]

21. see... a gun can be used as a tool!

well, the effort was there at least.