Bad Idea Jeans: Principal Depantsing 15 Year Old Female Basketball Player

Pulling a players warm-up pants down is a classic move. Heck, even Michael Jordan found humor in it.

However…

It might not be the best idea for principal-slash-girls basketball coach to try it on a 15-year-old female student. Throw in the fact that this girl had forgotten her basketball shorts at home and this goes from stupid, ill-advised joke to career-threatening harassment. That’s what Mike Loftin is dealing with today. From Southwest Iowa News:

Callie Merriman was wearing warm-up pants but had forgotten her shorts at home that day. She had gone home to grab them, but they were still in her purse when she and some teammates left the girls locker room.

“When I came out, I was standing by the boys locker room. We were just standing there, and he was talking and I guess he meant it as a joke and just yanked at my warm-up pants,” Callie said. “I screamed, ‘I’m not wearing any pants underneath!’”

The warm-up pants went down to her knees. Callie went to the ground immediately to try to hide her underwear and pulled her pants back up.

“I felt really shocked. Embarrassed. I was real humiliated because all the boys were behind me,” she said.

Very dumb and very unlucky are a bad combination. As of Friday, Loftin had not been suspended or fired and students have been asked not to speak with the media.

[Southwest Iowa News via Bad Jocks]