A high school junior learns the hard way that calling out for "booty" isn't acceptable unless you're a pirate:
A high school TV journalist made a bad booty call on the air. Brad Devlin, a 17-year-old junior, was recapping the girls' soccer team's 8-0 win in his daily sports report for Estero High's closed circuit TV newscast.
The script, approved by the TV production teacher, said the team really kicked some booty. But Devlin, an aspiring broadcaster, then violated the school's no ad-libbing policy by saying: "I love booty." The term "booty" technically means a pirate's treasure, but in slang also refers to a girl's backside or sex.
Devlin was called to the office and suspended for five days for what was "inappropriate comments on live school television broadcast," Assistant Principal Howard Wendland said.
I'd be tempted to file this under "Boys Will Be Boys," especially given the fact that the approved script called for an expression of "kicking booty." One of ZI's commenters notes that this is the same school that kicked an honors students out of graduation ceremonies after a kitchen knife was found in her car. So, if anyone is keeping track, Estero High students will get booted for mentioning booty, or keeping sharp booty around.
Posted by kswygert at February 7, 2005 10:48 AM