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September 13, 2010
A creative way to get fired
Laxdale School Assembly-3.jpg, originally uploaded by colinjcampbell (catching up!).
Back when I was in high school, we had an assembly where one of those goofy-but-entertaining motivational speakers gave us a presentation about STD's. I guess he was motivating us not to get STD's. Now that I think about it, that was rather progressive of my high school, because I went to a Catholic high school, where sex education usually consists of admonishments that if you do anything remotely sexual, God will strike you down, and then you will go straight to hell.
Anyway, part of this presentation included pictures of peoples' naughty bits, as ravaged by STD's. It was fairly awful, and it induced lots of cringes. Not the funny cringes, but the sort that make you never want to ever see that again.
So, my high school principal, dear Sister Gail, must have known what the guy was going to show us. Unfortunately for a school in Pennsylvania, those administrators did NOT know what their presenter was going to show. Furthermore, the presenter didn't know what he was about to show, either. Hilarity ensues:
Norwin High School seniors who were expecting a presentation from a Central Blood Bank rep got a surprise Friday when they saw pornography instead.
Channel 4 Action News' Bob Mayo reported that the Norwin School District sent parents a letter. It said "a few pornographic pictures that were on the representative's flash drive were briefly viewed" while preparations were being made to show the students a PowerPoint presentation.
"It was hardcore male pornography that was put up on the screen when the flash drive was put in. They tell me it lasted about 30 seconds, which is a long time," said attorney Peter J. Payne, who has been hired by parents of several students who attended the presentation.
Payne said he will be pursuing some form of civil action against Central Blood Bank.
"The parents are outraged. Every parent that I've talked to is very concerned. We're still talking about the senior class, but these kids are 17, 18 years old at the most," said Payne.
Student Ethan Dobranski described the sexually explicit images as "frontal male nudity, and there was one with, like, two people in there, but it was, like, from the back."
Oops! Now, the interesting part about this is that some of the parents want to sue. For what, I ask? Although I am sure some sort of lawsuit can be fashioned out of this, I really do not know for what. I am certain that most 17 to 18 year olds have seen something like this before, and are not going to be "traumatized."
As for the blood bank employee? I hope he takes a refresher course in how to use Powerpoint.
entry no. 1510
Posted at September 13, 2010 04:39 PM