The chairman of a Massachusetts school board has resigned days after performing a magic trick at a televised meeting that made it appear as if he had removed a fellow board member’s bra. 

Russell FitzGerald said he resigned from the Abington School Committee after a weekend of reflection.

He told The Enterprise of Brockton, MA that fallout from the trick played a part in his decision. The meeting was on live TV and was met in the room with silence and acute embarrassment.

FitzGerald is an amateur magician who generally started meetings with a trick. Neither the subject of the Sept. 27 bra trick nor his “accomplice” knew what was going to happen.

FitzGerald also noted he’s been on the board for 11 years and his term is almost up (…and he must have pretty bored to do something this ill-considered).

Source: The Enterprise, http://www.enterprisenews.com