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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,034 posts)
Wed May 21, 2014, 12:22 AM May 2014

Calif. man says ‘the Lord’ grabbed him and compelled him to attack a kid on a skateboard

You can't make this shit up.

An Orange County elementary school teacher suspended for the second time over footage of him apparently attacking skateboarders defended his actions on Tuesday as being guided by a divine presence.

“When I stepped in, I felt compelled by a higher power,” 58-year-old Thomas Hammer told the Orange County Register. “Honestly, have you ever been grabbed by the Lord in a way you never thought you would or you could? That’s exactly what I’m testifying to, and I’m not speaking in hyperbole. I’m speaking right from the heart.”

Hammer, a second-grade teacher, was placed on administrative leave again after parents at Cielo Vista Elementary in Rancho Santa Margarita withdrew their children in response to his re-instatement in a non-classroom “support role.”

KTLA-TV reported that Hammer had recently finished serving a two-month suspension stemming from his August 2013 arrest on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and taking property.

Hammer was charged after being identified in a 30-second video posted online last June. The clip, filmed outside a San Clemente skate shop, shows Hammer approach and push a boy off of his skateboard, then seemingly attempt to run away before stopping and trying to throw the board onto a balcony. The felony charge of taking property was later dismissed.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/20/calif-man-says-the-lord-grabbed-him-and-compelled-him-to-attack-a-kid-on-a-skateboard/

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Calif. man says ‘the Lord’ grabbed him and compelled him to attack a kid on a skateboard (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2014 OP
Mr. Hammer... theHandpuppet May 2014 #1
Or anybody else temporary311 May 2014 #2
Too bad The Lord didn't knock him down there when he grabbed him. Cleita May 2014 #3

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
3. Too bad The Lord didn't knock him down there when he grabbed him.
Wed May 21, 2014, 12:55 AM
May 2014

Then the kid wouldn't have been attacked. Otherwise it wouldn't make sense for a loving Jesus to do such a thing.

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