Being told off as an adultWhen was the last time you were properly told off? You know: treated as an errant child rather than the sophisticated adult you are.
The sort of thing that dredges up an involuntary teenage mumble of "Sorry, Miss" whilst you stare at the ground.
Go on, tell us what childish thing you were up to when you got caught.
Oh, and can we have more than one-line answers this time? Cheers!
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chthonic, Thu 20 Sep 2007, 17:18)
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Tenuous but hilariouswww.theage.com.au/news/national/hitlers-son-banned-from-schools/2007/09/24/1190486225428.html
A TEACHER who had claimed to be Adolf Hitler's son has been banned from working in Victorian schools.
Mr O'Hara, who represented himself at the appeal, gave his occupation as an Israeli intelligence agent, and described teaching as his "cover".
He came to police attention after offering two pistols for sale. He claimed that one of them was the pistol Adolf Hitler used to kill himself in his Berlin bunker and the other was owned by Hitler's wife, Eva Braun. Mr O'Hara said he owned the pistols because he was Hitler's son. He was convicted of fraud, after making a series of false documents claiming the firearms were authentic.
According to yesterday's tribunal decision, he also gave a "colourful and fanciful account" of his life as a secret agent during the hearing, which included assertions that the pistols were bait to flush neo-Nazis "out of their rat holes" on behalf of Israeli intelligence forces.
In summing up, Judge Harbison and VCAT member Heather Campbell said without "immediate medical help" Mr O'Hara should never be registered to teach in Victoria.
"His own evidence showed us how deluded he was at the time of the trial, and still is," yesterday's decision said.
"It is totally unacceptable that a man so lacking in insight and so clearly mentally ill should be allowed to teach … we go so far as to say that he should never be registered to teach in Victoria."
Well, they told him.
(, Mon 24 Sep 2007, 23:52, Reply)
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