NY Daily News An Oregon teacher who ♥s science branded his students’ skin with “I ♥ mom” during a bizarre classroom experiment, police said.
Samuel Dufner, a science teacher at South Salem High School in Salem, was arrested Tuesday, but a prosecutor said he won’t press charges at this time for the tattoo-like markings.
The 37-year-old teacher used a Tesla coil, a type of electrical transformer, to demonstrate chemical reactions during a lesson last week, police said. The Tesla transmits electricity without wires at high-frequency and high-voltage levels, and can produce electrical burn-like markings.
Dufner first touched the coil himself to show off the reaction, and then asked if any students wanted to be burned, too, students said.
“He took like the probe and he touched my hand and I pulled my hand away and it was done,” student Aminna Ackridge told KATU. “It hurt me a little bit, but as soon as I pulled my hand away the pain was gone.
This whole article reads like something off of The Onion but I would be all in on a tesla Tattoo for mom’s day. The article makes mention that the markings were just temporary and faded by the time the cops where arresting the guy.
Shame on the police for even bothering this one. If the teacher was some insane Albert Einstein looking lunatic running around burnin people against their wills then fine lay down some law. These kids were tripping out over some harmless weird science and just trying to show the love for mom.
Art was hardly my thing growing up. When my mom stopped doing my sketchbook I went from 100%’s in art to 69% all while giving max effort on my bullshit sketches where my “shading” was more of “smudging.” I was the kind of guy who would butchered a cute handprint in clay with some barnyard paint job where I’d try to mix the wrong colors and handed mom some throw up colored plate with my handprint wrapped in newspaper.
If the option was out there back in the day I would have been happy to dole out some pain for my mom if it meant having a bad ass Tattoo that trumped Henna but still wore off in a matter off days.