Guilty
Posted on 06/27/2007 11:19:25 AM PDT by JZelle
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — A sixth-grade teacher was sentenced yesterday to nine months in jail plus nine months of home detention for writing threatening notes to five students with messages such as "Tick Tock Tick Tock. Is it a bomb or is it a clock?"
Michelle J. Dohm, 42, of Thurmont, did not acknowledge guilt or remorse during the hearing but expressed sympathy to the victims' families.
Dohm was convicted by a judge in April after agreeing to a statement of facts that included handwriting analysis and a microscopic comparison of fibers in postage stamps.
"She has consistently and emphatically denied guilt," defense attorney Thomas C. Morrow said afterward.
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She should have gone to bed with them. She’d have walked away with a slap on the wrist.
She sounds a “little” crazy.
She should run for Congress. She already has experience operating in the liberal mode: discover a “problem,” or create a crisis, and then charge in with a complicated “solution,” all the while spouting expressions of sympathy.
When your solution makes matters worse, express more “deep concern,” threaten to tax those profitting by working constructively on the problem, and show your sympathy by proposing still greater, and crazier “solutions.”
Get elected repeatedly — in Massachusetts, if necessary — and make big money in this racket. Then retire with the ironic title “Honorable” in front of your name.
She probably repeated “Tick tock tick tock. Is it a bomb or is it a clock?” to herself all sing-song like as she was writing the letters. Her face was probably all screwed up with her head twitching.
I can just picture it.
My teachers threatened me all the time, “Do you want me to call your father.?”
It was her biological clock ticking. Those are indistinguishable from a bomb.
Now that's funny.
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