Boobies in class! Call out the guard!
CNN’s lede says it all: “A state legislator surprised a high school class when the computer he was using projected a photo of a nude woman during a lecture on how a bill becomes a law.”
Apparently the image (and others) were on a memory stick he stored his presentation on, and the images weren’t his. Also, she wasn’t nude, she was topless. Still, the reasonable reaction would be that the kids had a laugh, the guy was embarrassed, and that’s that.
But this is America in 2007, where a half-second flash of a blurry nipple brings multi-million-dollar fines (and the ridicule of the rest of the world): “Police interviewed Barrett and school officials and seized the data memory stick and the computer to determine where the image came from, a state highway patrol spokesman said.”
Police called, property seized, investigations begun… [sigh]
Would someone tell me what’s the big deal? Like, what could seeing that picture do to the kids? Lordy, lordy, lordy.
Dorene says:
Didn’t you make a YouTube bit about nipples being the bane of our existance? Don’t you remember what you, yourself, said? Nipples are scary, man! Never, ever forget! ;)