You may recall that last Spring, a chemistry professor at Macalester College in St Paul, Minnesota was accused of urinating on student belongings, and was dismissed from his position. His troubles have greatly increased: he has been formally charged with a felony.
There has been a confession.
Urination had been found in trash cans, individuals’ water bottles and inside professors’ decorations, the state criminal court document said.
Investigators determined Fischer was responsible for the series of urine-related cases, and he resigned from Macalester College, where he had spent 25 years working.
Authorities confronted Fischer before charging him, the court document said. He allegedly shared that “during the last one and a half to two years he developed a habit of urinating in a cup and disposing the contents in either trash cans or lab sinks around campus”, according to the document.
Calling it a “habit” doesn’t make it better.
Hot tip for any young people hoping for a career in the sciences: having a criminal record of peeing all over your workplace is the kiss of death for your employment prospects. Dr Fischer has flushed away his 25-year teaching career with his “habit”.
So he behaves like a non-domesticated animal. Dogs can generally be housebroken, felis catus will do the business in a litter box. Even Llamas have special sites they use.
He is an atavism, a perfect living proof that Darwin was right!
Has anyone checked if he has a brain tumor or other recent genesis anomaly that may have led to this behavior?
That’s some Thomas Kinkade behavior.
Smoking or fingernail biting is a “habit.”
This is a fetish.
Well that’s a pisser.
Given that this appears to be more recent, it is possible that it is neurological in origin. I am aware of behavioral changes that are due to changes in the brain. Frontotemporal Dementia is one such condition that might explain it. I agree with Hemidactylus that it shouldn’t be assumed that this guy is just an asshole or that it is just a “habit”. Note, I haven’t followed this all that closely and I am not an expert.
@3. jackmann : “That’s some Thomas Kinkade behavior.”
Huh? Lessee :
Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kinkade#Personal_conduct
Ah. yes, now that makes sense and something new learnt today thanks.
This reminds me of what Tina Fey wrote in one of her books: that some of her male coworkers were in the habit of peeing into cups and keeping the cups around in their offices. I didn’t know about it back when I was living as a man, and maybe the fact that it never occurred to me to do anything like this was yet another way in which I failed as a man.
Allison @8
TheGuardian – An extract from Tina Fey’s memoir, Bossypants
@Sky Captain #9:
No-one I know does that. I think this needs narrowing down from ‘guys’ to ‘Hollywood writer guys’ or some similar subculture that deserves a slap on the nose (or whatever it is that pet owners do to house-train animals that weren’t properly trained when young).
I don’t know, Mr. Woods. I had a roomate when I lived in Brooklyn who used to keep jars of his own piss around his room, he claimed because it was too far to the bathroom in the middle of night. But he was a hoarder–I recall he had a big box of paper materials, from years old Penthouses to, no lie, papers he had written in middle school and high school. That said, when I went to Macalester in the mid-1970s, we had some professors on the outer fringes, but I don’t recall any with a urine fetish.