Iran Becton???
Posted on 06/13/2013 4:05:07 PM PDT by re_tail20
U.S. Postal carrier Iran Becton doesn’t take kindly to being the butt of a frat joke.
He’s insulted that members of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity at the University of Chicago were involved in a racist prank that had him needlessly dragging postal supply boxes up to doors of their frat house at 56th and University.
“About a week after Memorial Day, I had an order to bring 79 of the boxes. I came to the address and explained to the frat member that I would have a lot more supplies. I went back to the truck for the boxes about six or seven times,” Becton said.
“After the last trip, one of the frat guys came out and said it was a practical joke. Another guy said that I should read the name backwards and I’ll get the joke.”
The items — all 79 of them — were addressed to “Reggin Toggaf.” Written backward, the first name is a racial slur. The last name is a slur for gay men.
“I was humiliated,” said Becton, an African American.
I was unable to reach any of the members of the Phi Delta Theta-Illinois Beta fraternity, whose address is listed on the university’s website, but no phone number.
But Mack Julion, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 11, said he paid a visit to the frat house last Saturday and spoke with the group’s former president.
“Their contention was it was a practical joke, but we don’t think it was funny, the letter carrier doesn’t think it was funny, and it doesn’t reflect well on the university,” Julion told me.
Julion said the fraternity told him the “joke” was being played on them and was not meant to offend Becton.
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
He had to do twitter, email and newspaper apologies all over the place due to the rancor from the militant gay lobby over his accidental mispronunciation.
The joke was played ON the fraternity. Not BY the fraternity.
Have you ever heard Louis C.K.’s comedy sketch on homosexuality ?
It will crack you up.
Yeah, but don't think think that it had to be played ON them by another fraternity, or sorority ?
Who else would play such a prank? The mailmen's union ?
Surprised?
This is Chicago.
I'd be looking at somebody associated with race-pimping like associates of Jesse Jackson or Valerie Jarrett.
These idiots should be prosecuted to the fullest extent by the USPS for fraud.
Such pranks make it harder for legit businesses to order supplies without jumping through hoops.
You could say he has "hands on" experience with teabagging.
Waaah.
“were addressed to “Reggin Toggaf.”
I’m so dense I thought “ “Reggin Toggaf” was some raghead in the frat house. It honestly sounds like that kind of name.
It is very hard to tell what happened from the article. They found a couple of nonPC words written backwards and apparently knee jerkly think they do need to inform us more.
It appears to me:
1. Some other frat had these supplies delivered to the frat in question, Phi Delta Theta was who the prank was played on.
2. Thus if anyone should be insulted by the name calling written backwards it would be the addressees.
3. Next the question is did the pranksters have to pay for the mailers. If so, then the postman has to deliver them, that is his job and his company is losing money. So he should be happy to have the business.
4. If the mailers were free, then perhaps a fraud was committed but again that was by the pranksters not the frat, Phi Delta Theta, that received the mailer.
Iran Becton???
““Their contention was it was a practical joke...”
YUCK, YUCK, YUCK. I cannot stop laughing. No sense of humor. Just like the family of the guy who was forced to drink a quart of Soy Sauce, and countless thousands others that get so drunk that they have to get their stomachs pump.
YUCK, YUCK, YUCK. Sorry, I can’t stop laughing. That was HYSTERICAL...treating the man like a slave. TOO FUNNY!!!
Yea, right.
LOL
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