Teacher skins coyote in class, suspended

[bonk102]

what a dumba&&

 

[Vic]

I completely fail to see the big deal. The risk of disease was minimal.

To all you whiny crybabies: please lighten the fsck up. Your little bitch, whine, and cry from your cozy little sheltered lives is really ruining it all for the rest of us. Where can I complain about THAT?

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Vic
I completely fail to see the big deal. The risk of disease was minimal.

To all you whiny crybabies: please lighten the fsck up. Your little bitch, whine, and cry from your cozy little sheltered lives is really ruining it all for the rest of us. Where can I complain about THAT?

thats goin in my sig

 

[MainFramed]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
LMAO

hehe

 

[imported_Tomato]

Originally posted by: Vic
I completely fail to see the big deal. The risk of disease was minimal.

To all you whiny crybabies: please lighten the fsck up. Your little bitch, whine, and cry from your cozy little sheltered lives is really ruining it all for the rest of us. Where can I complain about THAT?

North Shore Technical High School carpentry teacher Miles Dowling, an amateur taxidermist

*ahem*

I see in your initial post, you claimed he was a biologist and licensed taxidermist?

Way to catch the edit in time. 😉

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
What's wrong with skinning a coyote, assuming it's dead?

<------grew up in the country

Aye.

In my biology class we disected a deer that had been hit by a car. It was actually pregnant at the time with two fetuses. Very interesting to see, I must say.

But then again, half of the male student body attendance in my high school dropped during shotgun hunting season.

 

[N8Magic]

For those whining and crying about possible rabies transmission:

Link

Can I get rabies in any way other than an animal bite?

Non-bite exposures to rabies are very rare. Scratches, abrasions, open wounds, or mucous membranes contaminated with saliva or other potentially infectious material (such as brain tissue) from a rabid animal constitute non-bite exposures. Occasionally reports of non-bite exposure are such that postexposure prophylaxis is given.

Inhalation of aerosolized rabies virus is also a potential non-bite route of exposure, but other than laboratory workers, most people are unlikely to encounter an aerosol of rabies virus.

Other contact, such as petting a rabid animal or contact with the blood, urine or feces (e.g., guano) of a rabid animal, does not constitute an exposure and is not an indication for prophylaxis.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: N8Magic
For those whining and crying about possible rabies transmission:
Link
Can I get rabies in any way other than an animal bite?
Non-bite exposures to rabies are very rare. Scratches, abrasions, open wounds, or mucous membranes contaminated with saliva or other potentially infectious material (such as brain tissue) from a rabid animal constitute non-bite exposures. Occasionally reports of non-bite exposure are such that postexposure prophylaxis is given.
Inhalation of aerosolized rabies virus is also a potential non-bite route of exposure, but other than laboratory workers, most people are unlikely to encounter an aerosol of rabies virus.
Other contact, such as petting a rabid animal or contact with the blood, urine or feces (e.g., guano) of a rabid animal, does not constitute an exposure and is not an indication for prophylaxis.

well woudl you look at that. seems that i was right about something

 

[Isla]

/me scratches skinning coyotes off of 'future lesson plans'

 

[jaeger66]

What is the MATTER with you idiots? You have a roadkill carcass, who the hell knows what it's infected with. Rabies CAN be spread through the air, but it's a rare occurance since most people don't stop to pick up some roadkill to skin when they drive by it.

 

[Wallydraigle]

Originally posted by: jaeger66
What is the MATTER with you idiots? You have a roadkill carcass, who the hell knows what it's infected with. Rabies CAN be spread through the air, but it's a rare occurance since most people don't stop to pick up some roadkill to skin when they drive by it.

Lots of people do actually. It's much more common than you think. Someone already provided a link that did a lot better at explaining how one goes about contracting rabies than calling us all idiots.

 

[Vic]

TheEvil1, LMAO 😀

Dezign, little FUBAR on my part that doesn't change a thing. This is just another example of knee-jerk overreaction and media sensationalism. May I welcome you to the REAL world? Where there is no safety this side of the grave?

 

[N8Magic]

Originally posted by: jaeger66
What is the MATTER with you idiots? You have a roadkill carcass, who the hell knows what it's infected with. Rabies CAN be spread through the air, but it's a rare occurance since most people don't stop to pick up some roadkill to skin when they drive by it.

Inhalation of aerosolized rabies virus is also a potential non-bite route of exposure, but other than laboratory workers, most people are unlikely to encounter an aerosol of rabies virus.

Care to explain how the potential rabies virus was aerosolized in this case? I can't see the teacher boiling the blood or saliva of the coyote.

 

[jaeger66]

Originally posted by: N8Magic


Care to explain how the potential rabies virus was aerosolized in this case? I can't see the teacher boiling the blood or saliva of the coyote.

Do you know what happens to flesh once it turns septic? Bacteria->diseased flesh->gas. A small chance to be sure, but any chance is too much.

 

[imported_Tomato]

Originally posted by: Vic
TheEvil1, LMAO 😀

Dezign, little FUBAR on my part that doesn't change a thing. This is just another example of knee-jerk overreaction and media sensationalism. May I welcome you to the REAL world? Where there is no safety this side of the grave?

Vic, did I post my opinion one way or another on the topic?

Why, no. No, I didn't.

What was that you were saying about knee-jerk overreaction?

😉

 

[Vic]

Not yours, that of the students, parents, and faculty at the school.

 

[Wallydraigle]

Originally posted by: jaeger66

Originally posted by: N8Magic


Care to explain how the potential rabies virus was aerosolized in this case? I can't see the teacher boiling the blood or saliva of the coyote.

Do you know what happens to flesh once it turns septic? Bacteria->diseased flesh->gas. A small chance to be sure, but any chance is too much.

I'm sure the teacher threw the bloated, putrid corpse in the back seat of his Civic and dragged it to class

Animals don't rot off the bone the instant they hit they bumper you know. In cold climates like Mass. where this happened animals stay fresh a while. He probably picked it up the same day it got hit.

 

[N8Magic]

Originally posted by: jaeger66

Originally posted by: N8Magic


Care to explain how the potential rabies virus was aerosolized in this case? I can't see the teacher boiling the blood or saliva of the coyote.

Do you know what happens to flesh once it turns septic? Bacteria->diseased flesh->gas. A small chance to be sure, but any chance is too much.

Yes, actually I do.

So the gas released by the bacteria contains rabies? Hmmm. Don't think so.

 

[imported_Tomato]

Originally posted by: Vic
Not yours, that of the students, parents, and faculty at the school.

🙂

 

[N8Magic]

jaeger66,

I'm on my way out, so i'll leave you with this.

There have only been 2 documented cases of aerosol rabies transmission EVER. Both of those cases were bat researchers who spent too much time in a cave with millions of rabid bats. To be perfectly honest, these children have a much higher risk of being struck by a car on the way to class than of contracting rabies from the coyote carcass.

This is nothing more than media sensationalism. 🙂