I dunno. Maybe I’ll get the smackdown for being all sanctimonious and stuff, and I don’t know anything about this situation other than watching a couple minutes of the video. But when I see someone behaving that irrationally and out of the norm, makes me think they are probably having some sort of genuine psychotic or manic episode, in which case they need help, not ridicule. Might as well post a youtube video of someone having a seizure, or writhing in pain from a broken leg, or sobbing because their house burned down. It’s distasteful at best, cruel at worst.
Bull. First, because it’s easy to say what someone “should” have done in a situation like this, or say that you would’ve done x,y,z instead when the reality is that you have no clue how you actually would react until you’re actually in that situation.
Second, if there was a woman who clearly was having some severe mental issue and acting completely irrationally, making death threats, etc, how do you know getting up and moving is a good idea? You could potentially be drawing attention to yourself and making yourself a target.
I agree both with: I would likely be laughing at the sheer bizarreness, but I also feel bad for her and seriously hope she gets treatment.
The girl is obviously suffering from exhaustion and dehydration.
Joe Theismann?
Oh bull yourself.
I CAN see the prof not knowing exactly what to do. But I do know if someone’s getting violent in front of me I aint remaining seated/trapped. Particularly when it started WAY over there first and now they are headed my way. The situation isnt THAT extreme/WTF? when it comes to basic self preservation or common sense. And the solution to the problem doesn’t require split second thinking, strategy that would make a Romulan proud, or bravery that makes Batman look like a wuss. And this situation went on and escalated for many seconds. Its not like one of those WTF things thats almost over before you’ve realized its even started.
Of course some of us have more common sense than others. Note a good fraction of the students DID have enough sense to get the fuck up and away.
The guy that got popped in the head probably deserves it for being that darn dense.
Oh, and I agree this girl had a melt down and in the big picture it really isnt funny…the whole thing is rather disturbing actually.
Poor girl. I have no doubt at all she couldn’t have NOT done that once it started. Prof should have told some student to put down their damned phone-cam and go get security.
That’s absurd. This class was teaching biology, not self-defense against fruit.
ETA: As for everyone recording and not doing anything, I think it’s clear from the quoted YouTube comment above that the students (naturally, considering their age, and possibly the prof too) didn’t realize that this was “possibly mentally ill” crazy and not your plain old “sane, but wacky beliefs” crazy.
You forgot malnutrition. Well, maybe not that since she didn’t strip down and start masturbating.
I think the point where the extreme head waving, screaming, cussing, arms flailing, AND death threats started might have been a clue that this was a bit more (and a bit more dangerous) than your typical evolution is a lie / the earth is only 6 thousand years old wacky belief crazy.
But thats just me.
The FAU online newspaper states that a few students did leave the classroom to call the police.
Don’t read the comments, whatever you do.
Yeah, now I basically have to. Thanks.
eta: OK, this is my favorite so far:
-Jake
Because you told me not to - I immediately went and did just that. I just can’t believe society has not collapsed in upon itself yet.
Just saw the video. If that had happened in a class I’m teaching I would immediately ask someone in class to alert security about the situation. Clearly the ranting student was unstable and needed to be removed. I can’t understand why the instructor just stood there and took the abuse and allow potential violence in the classroom. The responses from most of the other students did not make sense either.
Or else the child support check bounced again.
Regards,
Shodan
Looks like the responses ranged from incredulous to derisive to concerned to alarmed, probably a mix of all four. Once she really got lathered up, people were leaving at once, obviously some to call authorities.
It’s only human nature to watch abberant behavior. I, myself, probably would’ve moved to the back of the room, or near a door if I knew others were already going for help.
It was an odd mix of racially fueled outrage triggered by something seemingly innocuous, so yeh, it’s pretty obvious something snapped and she’s dealing with mental/emotional issues.
OTOH, sometimes, when people snap in a big way, then become self aware about it, you’ve only got a few options: backdown and apologize, excuse yourself, or go the other way and bring on a melt down and create chaos in a self destructive manner, or even as a smokescreen for your initial actions and appeal to people’s pity or compassion after the debacle.
Near the end, she was trying to goad people into attacking her or fighting back, what with smacking that one guy just sitting there, and then outright asking for it from almost everyone. So, who knows.
Around the 49-second mark, she may be mentioning Trayvon Martin. It’s hard to hear, so I can’t be sure. Now, that might have been part of what set her off–not that I’m excusing it.
We are all held hostage by the reality show mentality.
Probably because if the teacher made the first move the student would end up suing the university, winning, teacher gets fired, and she gets a fat check for being a loon and gets her distorted view validated by the courts. In my security days, we detained a few such individuals for police, it was rarely boring but never turned out well for the nutter.
With all those cameras rolling, it would probably been safer for him to confront her, demand she leave, demand she leave or he would be removing her, then drag the bitch out by her hair if she does not comply.
Damn it! You *had *to tempt me.
See, this bothers me more than people laughing. Yeah, a mental breakdown like this is tragic, but, if you remove that, it does look funny, at least.
But it really bugs me when someone is punished due to a mental breakdown. Send her off to psychiatric care, sure. Temporarily suspend her until she can get better, fine. Expulsion, though? As in, we take your money and give you no credit? As in a punishment for a bad action? That just doesn’t sit right with me.
It reminds me of my friend in college who got kicked out of the dorms because he got suicidal (over his girlfriend having an abortion). It was cited by a rule that said he disturbed his dormmates too much. That pissed me off, but at least the didn’t flat out expel him. (The results would have been the same if his fraternity buddies didn’t offer him free housing. And I do think he eventually transferred after I left–but at least he got credit for what he had done before that.)