Posted on 01/18/2018 9:39:23 AM PST by DFG
Students attending a lecture at Tarrant County College were so frightened by their professor's behavior during a recent class that they had to leave the room.
When TCC Adjunct Professor Daniel Mashburn walked into his Astronomy class Tuesday night, several students were alarmed by his behavior. Some thought it was a joke while others called police.
Student April McLeod says her teacher got to class about 20 minutes late and turned off the lights and was wearing a ball cap, a toboggan, a scarf over his face and gloves. She says Mashburn never took any of it off even when police questioned him after responding to calls from students.
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Tony Soprano: So, your father tells me you’re takin’ up uh...astronomy in college.
Kevin Bonpensiero: No...business.
Tony Soprano: Well, how come he keeps sayin’ you’re takin’ up space in school?
boom badda bing
Well dang me. I grew up close to Hatfield and never knew that. Hatfield was hole of the Hatfield Speedway. There was a dirt oval and 1/8 mile drag strip with lights. When we were in high school, a couple of us would spend Sunday mornings there running our parents’ cars. Mario Andretti used to run in sprint car races on the dirt oval. This was in the 50’s before he went on to bigger things. I still remember my father taking me to a night sprint car race there in the early 1950’s when I was in maybe first or second grade. I loved the smell of the combusting alcohol from the Offie motors.
I just checked his Facebook page. Yes, it’s still up. This guy is a head case. In the last couple of hours he’s posted a photo of an owl that he says came to him by Allah. Then another photo looks like the owl is caught in a jute hanging planter or something like that. It looks posed.
I hope the authorities keep an eye on this guy.
I said if I was a student in his class, I wouldn’t be going back to that class. Actually, if I was a student on that campus, I’d be very, very nervous, just knowing he was around.
Aren't the moon and dark night astronomy-related?
I have never taught anywhere where ties were required of male professors.
I think his neighbors should be warned, too, but I’m sure they won’t be. I sure hope he hasn’t hurt that owl from his Facebook photo. I have my doubts that it is still alive.
The Philadelphia Toboggan company made the Comet at Paragon Park, Nantasket Beach, south of Boston, where I went as a kid.
They made other wooden coasters as well. They also made “Laffing Sal”, a seven foot high animatronic Raggedy Ann type doll of which they made several. There’s one at the Musee Mechanique in San Francisco, and I saw one in a 1950s free-on-youtube film noir movie a few weeks ago.
According to Laffing Sal’s wikipedia entry, the company was in Germantown. I have no idea how close that is to Hatfield.
Laffing Sal is remembered as one of those amusement park novelties that is supposed to be funny but usually scared the cr*p out of little kids.
“That’s what southerners call a knit beanie.”
Me, too. I'd have to go to a Lebanese bakery, though.
yep
Meanwhile, normal Americans are still out of work.
“That (a toboggan) is what southerners call a knit beanie”
See, it’s not hard.
Canadians call it a tuke, eh.
You must be under 50. :)
Checked it out on Google, and there's this (LINK)
But they also had TOOSH.
But what do I know, I'm a Yank.
BTW, do you have a different name for the long ones , the ones that we Statesers call "stocking caps"?
Has anyone looked at his Facebook page? Today he posted several photos. A couple were of a screech owl that he says “Allah” brought to him. A third was of that poor owl, now dead and posed in a jute hanging planter. He has it upside down as his premier background piece. Remember what they say about people who hurt animals. This guy is mentally ill at the very least.
Owls are federally protected. Please send a link to Fish and Wildlife.
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