Principal Went On Stabbing Spree "To Kill All The Drug Dealers" - Polidicks

[IMG]http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/gradebook/sites/tampabay.com.blogs.gradebook/files/images/typepad-legacy-files/44985.anthony_giancola_1.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/658663/thumbs/s-ANTHONY-GIANCOLA-large.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE=The Huffington Post]LEALMAN, Fla. — It wasn't that long ago that Anthony Giancola was considered one of Tampa's top young educators, consistently receiving great reviews from superiors and affection from students who called him "Mr. G." He focused on special-needs children and helped expand a program that allowed teens to train dogs to help disabled people. By Saturday he was in jail, being held without bond, accused of a crime spree that killed two and injured nine. Authorities say over a two and a half hours Friday, he stabbed four people at a group home for the hearing impaired, rammed his car into a group of people, tried to run over a boy on a bike and then assaulted a couple who ran a motel. "This is the worst of the worst here because this appears to be a random crime," said Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri. "There's no nexus . no connection between the suspect and the victims as we know it." Detectives have not given a motive for why Giancola went on a rampage, though the sheriff said Giancola told his mother after the rampage: "You'll be very proud of me, I just killed 10 drug dealers." It's also something of a mystery why Giancola's once-successful life took a downward spiral, though a series of events – including the crack cocaine arrest that ended his career – offers some clues. He started teaching at a middle school in Tampa in 1991. By 2006, Giancola was in charge of the Dorothy Thomas Exceptional Center in Tampa, a K-12 school for at-risk kids, after working with special-needs kids at other schools. There, he expanded a program called Kids and Canines and proudly sung the praises of a teacher who started the program and won a national award for her work. He was promoted that summer to principal of Van Buren Middle, also within the Hillsborough School District. Other educators knew that he had some personal problems; he had taken a leave of absence for three months earlier in his career to manage some obesity issues. Many probably didn't know that he had filed for bankruptcy in 1990. It was December 2006 when Giancola did something that would set his downfall in motion: That's when he first tried crack cocaine. In February 2007, he was arrested for buying $20 of crack from an undercover police officer during the school day in his office at Van Buren. Giancola eventually pleaded guilty to purchasing crack cocaine, possessing crack cocaine and possessing marijuana. Court records show he was sentenced to a year in jail and three years of probation. He told officers that he had spent hundreds of dollars a day on crack. After his arrest, Giancola spoke with reporters outside the jail. He was forthcoming about his problems.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/23/former-principal-charged-_0_n_1620879.html[/url] Reminds me of [IMG]http://www.tech-news.com/imagesap/taxi_driver.jpg[/IMG]

That doesn't look like a principal. That looks like a mega-commando guy who personally killed 5 guys using only a toothpick when he was storming the jungles of 'Nam. They type of guy who swallows napalm and shits flames. The kind of guy who doesn't take no for an answer. Also known as: A friggin' psychopath He doesn't look like someone I'd like having hanging around kids.

Looks like he snapped after seeing children's pure lives being tainted by drug dealers.

[QUOTE=wallyroberto_2;36464314]Looks like he snapped after seeing children's pure lives being tainted by drug dealers.[/QUOTE] Ruining his own life due to drugs probably had a factor in it, too, I would suspect.

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;36464299]That doesn't look like a principal. That looks like a mega-commando guy who personally killed 5 guys using only a toothpick when he was storming the jungles of 'Nam. They type of guy who swallows napalm and shits flames. The kind of guy who doesn't take no for an answer. Also known as: A friggin' psychopath He doesn't look like someone I'd like having hanging around kids.[/QUOTE] You can't judge a book by its cover [editline]24th June 2012[/editline] Oh wait

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;36464337]Ruining his own life due to drugs probably had a factor in it, too, I would suspect.[/QUOTE] He probably tried it to see what his students saw in it, to try to understand it. I personally know teachers who have done the same with weed, it never ends well, and all they wanted to do was understand their students better. Breaks my heart to see a great man like this go down because of drugs.

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;36464299]That doesn't look like a principal. That looks like a mega-commando guy who personally killed 5 guys using only a toothpick when he was storming the jungles of 'Nam. They type of guy who swallows napalm and shits flames. The kind of guy who doesn't take no for an answer. Also known as: A friggin' psychopath He doesn't look like someone I'd like having hanging around kids.[/QUOTE] Here's a picture of him as principal if that's any better: [IMG]http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/gradebook/sites/tampabay.com.blogs.gradebook/files/images/typepad-legacy-files/44985.anthony_giancola_1.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=Trekintosh;36464370]He probably tried it to see what his students saw in it, to try to understand it. I personally know teachers who have done the same with weed, it never ends well, and all they wanted to do was understand their students better. Breaks my heart to see a great man like this go down because of drugs.[/QUOTE] Possible, but I would take a better guess at the list of "personal problems" he had through out the years as listed in the article, such as bankruptcy in the early 90s, obesity issues, etc.

Oh dear... I see someone lost it. Off to the clinker with him, because fuck rehabilitation.

[QUOTE=DamagePoint;36464388]Here's a picture of him as principal if that's any better: [IMG]http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/gradebook/sites/tampabay.com.blogs.gradebook/files/images/typepad-legacy-files/44985.anthony_giancola_1.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Holy fucknuggets [I]he looks like my old principal[/I] :tinfoil: [editline]23rd June 2012[/editline] It's the mugshot that made me wince, sorry

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;36464411]Possible, but I would take a better guess at the list of "personal problems" he had through out the years as listed in the article, such as bankruptcy in the early 90s, obesity issues, etc.[/QUOTE] Possibly a mix of both. He seems like the kind of person who would want to understand his students as much as possible. Maybe he subconsciously used it as an excuse to try it and see if it helped him get away from stuff.

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;36464299]That doesn't look like a principal. That looks like a mega-commando guy who personally killed 5 guys using only a toothpick when he was storming the jungles of 'Nam. They type of guy who swallows napalm and shits flames. The kind of guy who doesn't take no for an answer. Also known as: A friggin' psychopath He doesn't look like someone I'd like having hanging around kids.[/QUOTE] My former high school principal was an active Marine who had to leave school once to complete another tour in Afghanistan as an advisor and he was a [I]great[/I] principal so I don't think that's necessarily true

[QUOTE=Trekintosh;36464425]Possibly a mix of both. He seems like the kind of person who would want to understand his students as much as possible. Maybe he subconsciously used it as an excuse to try it and see if it helped him get away from stuff.[/QUOTE] Well like I said, it's something I personally would guess at. No one will really know until the case is further investigated.

Is it just me or does all this crazy shit seem to always occur in Florida?

I still don't know how I feel about this. On one hand vigilante justice is almost never justified, on the other hand the streets may be much safer now that some of the biggest drug dealers in the area have been taken out of commission. I really want to root for this guy because I truly believe he was hurt by what he saw going on around him, and he felt that because of incompetence of the police, or whatever other reason, that this was the only way he was going to get those people off the streets. [editline]24th June 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Fenderson;36464540]Is it just me or does all this crazy shit seem to always occur in Florida?[/QUOTE] It seems like lately it has been.

[QUOTE=DamagePoint;36464284][IMG]http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/gradebook/sites/tampabay.com.blogs.gradebook/files/images/typepad-legacy-files/44985.anthony_giancola_1.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/658663/thumbs/s-ANTHONY-GIANCOLA-large.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE] Seems like such a transformation to me. It's hard to believe it's the same guy.

[QUOTE=Hidole555;36464668]Seems like such a transformation to me. It's hard to believe it's the same guy.[/QUOTE] Shaving facial hair usually makes a guy look completely different. Especially with that much.

I don't like being the nitpicker, but the article never mentioned whether or not there was any reason to believe the people he killed were drug dealers, just the killer telling them they were doesn't seem very trustworthy to me.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;36464681]Shaving facial hair usually makes a guy look completely different. Especially with that much.[/QUOTE] His left eye looks pretty different too. Looks like someone punched him pretty bad

[QUOTE=Fenderson;36464540]Is it just me or does all this crazy shit seem to always occur in Florida?[/QUOTE] I'm telling you guys, it's Deepwater Horizon. The spill fucked Florida up. [QUOTE=DamagePoint;36464635]I still don't know how I feel about this. On one hand vigilante justice is almost never justified, on the other hand the streets may be much safer now that some of the biggest drug dealers in the area have been taken out of commission. I really want to root for this guy because I truly believe he was hurt by what he saw going on around him, and he felt that because of incompetence of the police, or whatever other reason, that this was the only way he was going to get those people off the streets.[/QUOTE] Either that, or he was high. Because I'm kind of doubting that a major drug ring was hiding behind a group home for the deaf, a family-owned motel, a teenager, and a random group of people. [quote]Around 11:30 a.m., Giancola pulled up in front of a house in Pinellas Park and asked residents where he could find women. The residents told him to go away, and Giancola drove away angry. He soon returned and crashed his car into their porch, injuring three women and one man. The women were taken to a nearby hospital, but the man refused treatment. A witness jotted down the license plate of Giancola's maroon Ford sedan. Giancola's vehicle also struck a 13-year-old boy on a bike. The boy's injuries were minor.[/quote] These weren't drug dealers, these were random people. Yeah, see, kids, this is why you're not supposed to follow Batman's example. Nor do drugs. The irony of a [I]principal[/I] succumbing to peer pressure to try drugs is overwhelming. That is, if he really did try drugs in order to see "what the big fuss was about" with his students.

[QUOTE=Blazyd;36464711]His left eye looks pretty different too. Looks like someone punched him pretty bad[/QUOTE] Given the extent of his rampage, I would be surprised if he didn't get himself injured in some way either by the car crash or by one of his victims defending themselves.

[QUOTE=Last or First;36464715] Either that, or he was high. Because I'm kind of doubting that a major drug ring was hiding behind a group home for the deaf, a family-owned motel, a teenager, and a random group of people.[/QUOTE] In the article some of the neighbors report that their neighborhood is plagued by drug dealers and prostitution so it wouldn't be too far-fetched that some fo them are running a halfway home or a motel as a front for a drug operation. Although the article doesn't say for sure either way.

[img]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/658663/thumbs/s-ANTHONY-GIANCOLA-large.jpg[/img] . . .Meat Loaf?

[QUOTE=DamagePoint;36464768]In the article some of the neighbors report that their neighborhood is plagued by drug dealers and prostitution so it wouldn't be too far-fetched that some fo them are running a halfway home or a motel as a front for a drug operation. Although the article doesn't say for sure either way.[/QUOTE] or~ he was high Yeah, they had drug dealers in the neighborhood, but that doesn't mean that that was them. Especially since some of the injured were a 13 year old boy and a random group of people. I do feel sorry for him, but we're not talking about "oh, I had to operate [I]outside the law[/I]" here, we're talking about a delusional guy assaulting random people. [QUOTE=NuclearJesus;36464809][img]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/658663/thumbs/s-ANTHONY-GIANCOLA-large.jpg[/img] . . .Meat Loaf?[/QUOTE] I would do anything for love - but I won't do thaaaat Now, if I could have some more crack, on the other hand...

what a psychopath.

[QUOTE=ryfry99;36464874]what a psychopath.[/QUOTE] Kind of early to say what caused this spree, wouldn't you say? And even then, I don't think what he did was grand/evil enough to call him that.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;36464905]Kind of early to say what caused this spree, wouldn't you say? And even then, I don't think what he did was grand/evil enough to call him that.[/QUOTE] It doesn't matter he tried to kill 10 people. If trying to kill 10 people doesn't make him a psychopath then I don't know what does.

[QUOTE=ryfry99;36465212]It doesn't matter he tried to kill 10 people. If trying to kill 10 people doesn't make him a psychopath then I don't know what does.[/QUOTE] If he was high on drugs at the time, does that still make him a psychopath?

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;36465221]If he was high on drugs at the time, does that still make him a psychopath?[/QUOTE] No but it's still a terrible thing he has done.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;36465221]If he was high on drugs at the time, does that still make him a psychopath?[/QUOTE] Temporary Psychosis, so he's maybe he's not a psychopath, but he's still psychotic