Mar 20 2009
Mad Max: Product of the Dallas Public School System?
I always thought this kind of stuff was purely fantasy, but there have actually been cage fights in a Dallas high school. Documents obtained by The Dallas Morning News show that troubled students at South Oak Cliff High School were sent to duke it out - with bare fists and no head protection - in a steel utility cage in an athletic locker room.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/031909dnmetcagefight.3dfc1c3.html
Could it be that the principal’s favorite movie character was Mad Max? Did he fancy himself a movie director? I can see it all now:
The school athletes are assembled around the cage and a member of the faculty announces:
“WELCOME TO ANOTHER EDITION OF THUNDERDOME!!”
Two students enter. One student leaves!
I fricking love that movie…