A PROFESSOR CALLED HORSE

Do you remember the poster from the 1970’s film “A Man Called Horse”? It featured actor Richard Harris hanging from a tree by to ropes, attached to hooks in his pectoral muscles. Well, a professor at a Texas college likes to do the same thing, and he freaked out his students in the process. Professor Jeff William Justice, a professor at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, reportedly pressured several students into hanging him from the trees at his house using hooks attached to nothing but the skin on his chest. He called it the “Sundance Ritual”. On several occasions, Professor Justice invited a group of male students over to his home with offers of free scotch. After repeatedly turning the professor down, the students, according to the witness, finally conceded. That, of course, is when things got weird. He began to talk about the pain in his chest from hanging from a tree by spikes in his chest, praying to the sun god. The kids, when asked if they’d like to have a go at hanging themselves from the trees by their their chests, reportedly declined and said “they had to think about it.” Professor Justice went to the bathroom and came back and took his shirt off. He had the stakes through his chest with blood dripping down and rope tied to them. He had them follow him out back, climbed up a step ladder, tied the rope to the tree, and then hung off the ground from his chest. The students were “freaked out” and eventually left. Some time later, one of the students was asked to help put spikes in Justice’s chest. At that point, the student said he faked a call and bolted. Justice reportedly tried to get the student to come back over to no avail, before finally texting him one last time “to come to his home and hang out so that [they] could moan and groan together.” That text, the student said, made him feel “more uncomfortable than he ever had before,” and he reported Professor Justice’s behavior to his father first, then school authorities. Professor Justice resigned, and in a statement admitted that he had “attempted to harm myself in the presence of students. While I do not recall what initiated such action, I do know this incident was caused by the accumulation of events in my life that resulted in me entering a state of severe depression. As the result of those ongoing events in my life, I made the decision to resign from my position at Tarleton State University.”
* Usually, it’s not the teacher playing hooky.
* “Hey, let’s go hang at the professor’s house!’
* Dude – if you want suffering, get married.
* I notice he mentioned scotch. I’m guessing it was a lot of scotch.
* Now the spokesman for severe depression has issued a statement saying, “Don’t blame this on me.”
* Just reading about this professor gives ME severe depression.
* The one student said it made him feel more uncomfortable than he ever had before?
I went through a similar thing when I met my in-laws.