HAHAHAHHAAAA...SI MCHEZO"
When a middle school teacher vowed not to shave until Osama Bin Laden was caught following the terror attacks, he thought it would only be a matter of months.
So when Gary Weddle, 50, found out the Al Qaeda leader was dead last night, he was probably more happy than most.
In almost ten years the science teacher from Ephrata, Washington, had managed to grow a grizzled beard that reached his chest.
Short back and sides: Teacher Gary Weddle reaches for the razor to shave off ten years of beard, looking ten years younger after the big trim
'I spent my first five minutes crying and then I couldn't get it off fast enough,' Mr Weddle told the Capital Press.
Unsurprisingly Mr Weddle's wife Donita was also rather relieved to be able to see a bit more of her husband's face.
Looks familiar: Mr Weddle certainly could have joined band ZZ Top, ironically bore a resemblance to Bin Laden himself "
Mr Weddle had been working in his garden on Sunday evening when a colleague called to tell him the news.
Sceptical at first Mr Weddle turned on the news and then when it had sunk in rushed to the bathroom to hack away at the itchy creation.
Friends and neighbours even headed over to his house to watch the symbolic moment.
And today Mr Weddle's school principal Jill Palmquist honoured him, telling students they should admire the teacher for sticking to his vow not to shave for 3,454 days.
Ms Palmquist said Mr Weddle had endured ridicule, jokes and people telling him it was a lost cause.
But he had made vow and was going to stick to it even if special forces had never captured the terrorist.
In 2003 Mr Weddle had said: 'If they want to shave it off my body in the coffin, they can, but I'm going to hang onto it...I'm not going to forget and I'm not going to let anyone forget.'
An elite crew of American forces killed Bin Laden during a daring raid on Monday, capping the world's most intense manhunt. He was the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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