Fed up with cell phones?
Posted by Matt Dioguardi on August 8th, 2007
Here is an interesting story:
- Mie Univ. associate professor arrested for breaking mobile phone
TSU, Japan - An associate professor at Mie University was arrested Tuesday for breaking the mobile phone of a woman at a bar in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, the police said. Satoru Yamamoto, 50, an associate professor at the university’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, suddenly snatched a mobile phone from the 18-year-old employee of a tailor’s shop and broke it into two at about 9 p.m., the police said. (Kyodo News)
Japanese source: 三重大准教授を逮捕＝居酒屋で女性の携帯折る−県警
This guy was a professor so he must deal with 18 year olds every day. I wonder how he treats students in class when they attempt to use a cell phone?
I once heard of an foriegn English teacher who got so annoyed by a student talking on her cell phone that he took the phone away from the student and threw it out of a four story window. I don’t remember the teacher ever getting into serious trouble over this …
How do you deal with annoying people with cell phones?
August 9th, 2007 at 12:07 am
I threw a high school student’s phone out of a first-story window. I had warned her I’d do it, the phone didn’t break (it hit the grass) and even she seemed to take it in stride.
I had to give her credit for comic timing. After I tossed it out the window, she looked at me shocked for a few seconds, then asked, in earnest, “Can I go get it?”
I couldn’t help but laugh. Luckily, one of her classmates took the pressure of asking the obvious question off of me by asking her, “What? Are you fucking retarded?”
August 9th, 2007 at 2:00 am
You know, as wrong as it is to destroy someone else’s property, and while I don’t in any way condone what this Professor did, I understand.
Having taught myself in the past, I also got annoyed when someone would start talking on their cell phone in the middle of class. I would tell them to leave the room until they were done.
August 10th, 2007 at 5:49 am
The problem here is that neither the professor, the girl, nor the phone were in class at the time.
The un-asked question: What was an 18 year old doing in a bar?