spjets Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 H'WEEN SHOCK BROOKLYN HS GIVES BOY DAS BOOT FOR SICK-OR-TREAT By DAVID ANDREATTA and PATRICK GALLAHUE OKTOBER PEST: Walter Petryk unveiled his Hitler costume at Leon M. Goldstein HS after first disguising his disguise with a Charlie Chaplin cover-up. The 16-year-old, whose stepdad is a Jewish author, insisted he was doing a Mel Brooks-style parody. November 1, 2006 -- A student at a Brooklyn high school named for a prominent Jewish educator faced a blitzkrieg of trouble yesterday when he arrived dressed as Adolf Hitler for Halloween. Walter Petryk, 16, insisted his masquerade was a lampoon of the **** dictator - but administrators at Leon M. Goldstein HS declared autumn for Hitler and detained Petryk as their "prisoner of war." The junior honors student, who grew a moustache for the occasion, was pulled out of his second-period English class and told to remove his beige coat bearing a red swastika armband or risk spending the day in the of fice. "Excuse me, fuhrer, can I talk to you for a minute?" is how Petryk recalled the dean, Paul Puglia, summoning him out of class. Should he have been allowed to stay in class wearing his Hitler outfit? Post your comments here Puglia then allegedly asked, "Are you out of your mind, you idiot?" and ordered him to the office with, "Consider yourself my prisoner of war." Celeb Halloween costume photos More photos here Petryk said he understood the concerns of administrators that faculty members had lost relatives in the Holocaust. But he maintained the costume was a parody protected under his right to free expression, and refused to take it off. "I figured somebody would say something eventually, but I really do believe that people have a right to express themselves," said Petryk, an aspiring comedy writer who counts Mel Brooks, "Weird Al" Yankovic and the Monty Python cast among his idols. His mother and stepfather, who is Jewish and lost ancestors in the **** genocide, defended Petryk's stance. They rebuffed pleas by the dean to advise their son to remove the costume so he could return to class. "This is a matter of artistic free expression and a school not being stupid," said his mother, Diane Petryk- Bloom, who picked her son up at school. "[The dean is] offended by a parody of Hitler - and he's acting like Hitler." Petryk's stepfather is Howard Bloom, a journalist whose book, "The Lucifer Principle," has been targeted by censors who accuse it of being anti-Islam. Bloom said he bristled at the thought of Walter being censored, even though he was initially "very disturbed" by the Halloween getup. "If he had wanted to advocate my genocide, I wouldn't have allowed [the costume]," Bloom said. "That wasn't the spirit in which he was doing this at all. He was doing it in the spirit of Monty Python and Mel Brooks." City Department of Education spokesman Keith Kalb said school administrators "followed appropriate procedures" after receiving "several complaints from offended students and staff." The department's discipline code states that students who wear clothing deemed disruptive to the educational process may be removed from class. Petryk said he was a hit with his peers, who clamored for photos of him as the fascist tyrant. "The first class I went to, everybody was laughing," he said. Students had mixed reactions to the outfit. "Why would you come as something that is supposed to offend people?" asked junior Dean Waterlan, 16. "It's not cute, it's not cool. I think the school was right." My Bui, 16, a senior, said, "I thought it was funny, but a lot of people didn't like it." Petryk said he didn't set out to push the envelope as Hitler. But he acknowledged that he made a decision to disguise himself as Charlie Chaplin with a bowler hat and cane on his way to school to avoid ruffling feathers on the street. "I wasn't going to get on the subway in a Hitler costume," Petryk said. http://www.nypost.com/seven/1101200...ck_gallahue.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer Division Marduk Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Eric Cartman lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harts724 Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Damn those politically correct bastards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GM Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 What if he dressed up as Saddam...Or Bin Laden? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsfanbkny Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 What if he dressed up as Saddam...Or Bin Laden? they wouldnt say a word... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joewilly Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 What if he dressed up as Saddam...Or Bin Laden? probably wouldn't get as much candy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer Division Marduk Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 What about Stalin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
124 Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Who cares? My friend Ant did this last year when we were Seniors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harts724 Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 No candy but a she ite load of falafels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer Division Marduk Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 It is the simple option though. If you really want to give people the creeps, why not go as Himmler, or Heydrich? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spjets Posted November 3, 2006 Author Share Posted November 3, 2006 probably wouldn't get as much candy good one JW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mavrik Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 It is the simple option though. If you really want to give people the creeps, why not go as Himmler, or Heydrich? 85% of the country wouldn't know who those two were anyway. Here's a did you know: Himmler was a chicken farmer before joining the **** party. I dont know if that occupation is a foreshadowing of later evils, but who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 but administrators at Leon M. Goldstein HS declared autumn for Hitler and detained Petryk as their "prisoner of war." Where the hell is Leon M. Goldstein HS? I've only been out of Brooklyn for 6 months. Is this something new? Sounds like a strange place to dress like Hitler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joewilly Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 85% of the country wouldn't know who those two were anyway. Here's a did you know: Himmler was a chicken farmer before joining the **** party. I dont know if that occupation is a foreshadowing of later evils, but who knows. thanks mavrik, I had no idea himmler joined the jetnation party. what was his username? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faba Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Where the hell is Leon M. Goldstein HS? I've only been out of Brooklyn for 6 months. Is this something new? Sounds like a strange place to dress like Hitler. I am guessing it is one of these charter schools that they have tried to implement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetCane Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Maybe he should go as a KKK member next year, and see if he survives in Brooklyn long enough to even get to the school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 I am guessing it is one of these charter schools that they have tried to implement. Had to look it up. It's actually in Kingsborough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sperm Edwards Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Maybe he should go as a KKK member next year, and see if he survives in Brooklyn long enough to even get to the school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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