Alabama geometry teacher uses wrong example to teach angles — assassination of President Barack Obama

A Jefferson County teacher picked the wrong example when he used as­sassinating President Bar­ack Obama as a way to teach angles to his geome­try students.

Someone alerted autho­rities and the Corner High School math teacher was questioned by the Secret Service, but was not taken into custody or charged with any crime.

The teacher was appar­ently teaching his geometry students about parallel lines and angles, officials said. He used the example of where to stand and aim if shooting Obama.

“He was talking about angles and said, ‘If you’re in this building, you would need to take this angle to shoot the president,’ ” said Joseph Brown, a senior in the geometry class.

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Old man about to complete 5,000 piece jigsaw, finds one piece is missing

It had cluttered up Jack Harris’s dining table for almost eight years.

Nevertheless, the 86-year-old was determined to finish his five-foot long, 5,000-piece jigsaw.

And when he thought the painstaking process was complete, he stood back to admire his work – only to find a dog may have eaten the final piece.

Mr Harris has searched his home in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, for the missing piece but his family fears one of their two dogs has swallowed it.

They have even asked the puzzle’s manufacturer if they could provide a spare – but Mr Harris has taken so long to complete the jigsaw that Falcon Games has stopped making it.

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