Thursday, January 27, 2011

Mathematicians Gone Wild

A California university professor has been charged with peeing on a colleague's campus office door.

Prosecutors charged 43-year-old Tihomir Petrov, a math professor at California State University, North-ridge, with two misdemeanor counts of urinating in a public place.

Story here.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

that guy rocks like stink

Ice Cold Justice said...

Now he'll also be on the Sex Offender list.......

PA said...

To this point I've been able to resist the urge to piss on certain of my colleagues' doors. No more.

Glaucon said...

We have many mathematicians on our floor, which is nice, since by comparison we philosophers seem fairly well socialized...

Anonymous said...

Some doors are into that sort of thing.

Anonymous said...

I'm sure he knocked first.

Anonymous said...

Hey, the guy did his PhD at NYU, in the city where pissing anywhere you like is treated as a birthright. (Take a deep breath while walking the streets of East (or West) Village early Sunday morning.) Judging by his name, the poor fellow is "Russki", so perhaps he just misinterpreted the NYC urinating habits as part of the Amerrrikan Drrrreeeem...

Anonymous said...

Obviously an adherent to stream of consciousness criticism who pools his efforts against portals of resistance. Who can't but admire anyone who so minds his pees and queues?

Anonymous said...

School officials had rigged the camera after discovering puddles...

For some reason, I like the fact that it wasn't a one-time thing. Like he'd made a habit of it, or something. 'Finish teaching, head to office hours, piss on the door. Finish teaching, head to office hours, piss on the door,...'

Anonymous said...

"School officials had rigged the camera after discovering puddles of what they thought was urine at the professor's door."

His error was that he kept going back to it. He needed to mix it up. Pee on X's office door once, bag of dogshit in X's office box once, move all the books for professor X's class in the bookstore once, flame X on RateMyProfessors.com once, and so on.

I mean, if you hate X enough to regularly pee on X's door, you should hate X enough to think of lots of ways to get at X.

Anonymous said...

Two counts. That's a scream.

Security code: "argific." Absolutely amazing.

Anonymous said...

8:52: more like Bulgarian.

wv: wakin

Anonymous said...

@ 2:40

You are right! The name "Tihomir" is far more likely to be Serbian or Bulgarian. I must have been misled by the last name "Petrov", which is among the most common last names in Russia (along with Ivanov).
I stand corrected...