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Fantasy Shooting a Bully and Getting Expelled for a Bomb Threat Joke

from The Fixer (Bronx Jonny) · #86

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4 min

They riff darkly on Johnny hypothetically shooting the toughest kid in class, then Ray tells his own story of nearly being expelled in high school for joking to a girl about blowing up her mother, tying into gun jokes gone wrong.

In this bit11 moments
  • 17:11Tim fantasizes about shooting the toughest kid in class on the first day of teaching as a deterrent.
  • 17:32Using a gun to establish classroom discipline and threaten misbehaving students with consequences.
  • 18:15Tim describes accidentally killing a kid while trying to wing him, then going to jail for it.
  • 18:38Teachers are given regular pay and job security for summer vacation, so they don't care about doing the work right.
  • 19:04Remedial history teachers bore students by explaining what the Aztecs did, which would make Tim flip out.
  • 19:19Tim was kicked out of high school for making a Columbine threat, though the actual incident involved a crude joke.
  • 19:34He told a girl he was going to blow up her mother's uterus and administrators took it as a bomb threat.
  • 19:52A mutual friend Billy was making movies with Tim and talked to the girl about needing guns as props.
  • 20:14Tim bragged to the girl about his dad having an anti-aircraft gun and a tank, joking around like an idiot.
  • 20:38Administrators tricked Tim into confessing by taking his joke seriously, creating the whole situation.
  • 20:51Tim learned the hard way never to snitch, even when falsely accused of stealing in school.
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