
There's something fishy going on here. A grade school teacher in Canada has been slapped with a suspension for choosing to fish instead of cutting bait and "trying to mask the smell of fish on a young student by spraying him with Febreze" (links at bottom). The kid's old lady raised one hell of a stink over the incident, which now has the sleepy little island town of Twillingate, Newfoundland more buzzbaited than a pack of Friday night fish fry patrons in Nebraska.This story started crooked as a barrel of fishhooks, with the local elementary school serving fried fish to the kids one day last week. The putrid-smelling little punk reportedly came out that mess hall and started really stinkin' up the joint with the foul stench of fish. BTW, the precise connection between eating fish and having one's entire person then smelling like a big dead fish is not entirely clear from the linked stories.
Regardless, according to his old lady (named Patti Rideout; pictured below), this little stinkpot reportedly stunk so bad that he couldn't even fish for a compliment from classmates, who swarmed like a school of fish and gave the kid the business something real bad over his foul odor. So Teach first reportedly made Fish Boy stand out in the hall for an hour in an apparent attempt to give the stench an opportunity to dissipate.
But with nothing doin' on that front, reportedly, Teach then took the next logical step and tried to fumigate the malodorous little man with a big can of air freshener! And while it wasn't a can of RAID that was utilized, the kid's above-pictured old lady has opened up a whole can of worms by complaining to the school that her little shit was treated like a fish out of water and was "embarrassed, bullied and [treated] disgracefully.""I think my son was not treated like a human being - I think he was treated like a dog or a cat," crowed the fumin' Mama. Now while I might agree that this fish-rot tot was more or less treated like a shithouse, what kind of a person would spray a dog or cat with Febreze? That would be animal cruelty. And a little tike ain't no damn animal. So methinks Mama overstates her case a bit here.
But the school apparently doesn't agree and has now sent Teach on her own little fishing expedition, a/k/a home suspension. Still, though, Mama is playin' the cold fish, saying she ain't satisfied -- neither fish nor fowl -- and will not be fully satisfied until Teach both (1) says Teach is sorry and (2) gets the hook straight to the unemployment line! Yeah, hand the broad her pink fish right in the middle of awful economic times. A damn fine kettle of fish that would be.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2012/02/07/nl-twillingate-fish-student-reaction-207.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2098440/Teacher-suspended-spraying-fishy-smelling-Christian-Roberts-Febreze.html

Wow, this is a tough one....no doubt, she should have handled that with more grace than she did, no need to humiliate the kid! But, having been stuck in places with foul smelling people, I can see why she tried to do something about it....you can't think or study when you're surrounded by stench..there have been some classes at the gym that I wasn't sure how I was going to workout AND breathe at the same time because breathing meant smelling! But in the end, I don't know if it's just that they don't wear enough deodorant or if they have a deeper problem...bless their hearts =)
ReplyDeleteMy assumption is that people with bad BO are people who (1) simply don't shower or bathe very regularly or (2) wear clothes that they don't wash very regularly or (3) both. If one showers in the morning, but puts on no deodorant, he might stink a bit by the end of the day, but he's not going to have that overwhelming BO stench absent one of the above-listed considerations. There's nothing worse than being around a BO person, I agree. Fish Boy, on the other hand -- I don't know WHAT THE HELL was going on there with the fish stench. Simply eating fish does not cause bodily fish stench for crying out loud.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your 3 assumptions, and know that you're right....I do think some people have a glandular condition though that makes them smelly....kinda like gingivitis even though they brush and floss regularly. Hey, I'm not a real doctor though, I just play one on TV =)
ReplyDeleteI bet the elephant man's disease wouldn't make one smell any too good either.
ReplyDeleteThe elephant man had LOTS of problems, poor guy...
ReplyDeleteWas he actually a real person or just a movie and play character? Through the travail of ages, I've actually forgotten.
ReplyDeleteDude, I thought he was real, but now I'm questioning myself....
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elephant_Man_(film)
ReplyDeleteAccording to Wiki above, he was a real man in 19th century London....poor guy.
Was he really called the Elephant Man back then? I doubt most back then would have ever seen what an elephant even looks like. Now if they called him Alligator Man, I might more believe it, because those brits had been to Florida.
ReplyDeleteOoh, that I do not know....you make a good point!
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