14-Year-Old Guilty of Making Teacher Puke

What's going on with kids these days? The 14-year-old boy who spiked his teacher's coffee with vomit-inducing ipecac pleaded guilty yesterday to fourth-degree assault. The Federal Way middle school student was then sentenced to eight months of community supervision and 24 hours of community service. His partner in crime, a 13-year-old boy, will be headed for his day in court next Friday. The teacher has since sworn off middle schoolers and plans to make the switch to teach elementary school kids.

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By Kim P. in News on May 15, 2009 9:00 AM

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herbisara

I remember a kid in high school who put a hit of acid in the science teacher's coffee. I never witnessed what happened after. Whew. Bet that teacher thought that was some strong coffee!

Troy Morris

My best friend's older cousin did this 15 years ago or so. It's nothing new a kid fucking with a teacher, especially one who isn't cool. They never got prosecuted. Sounds like a cry-baby move to me. You couldn't handle a 14 year-old kid, so you called in the court system. I'd vomit on you too.

sevenless

Oh, come on the kid fucking poisoned the teacher. Worst case is she pukes, aspirates the cafeteria's mystery meat, and dies right there in the classroom. Then the kid's guilty of something way worse than 4th degree assault. I think the kid got off pretty easy and your friend's cousin got lucky.

Anyway, the best parts of this whole thing are the PI's careful pronunciation guide for IP-eh-kack, and (as usual) the fantastic comments on the New-Tribune's site.

Troy Morris

I'm sorry, but that's a ridiculous claim.

NOTHING more than puking happened. That's something that could have been handled between civil adults to take care of the kid, not using our precious tax dollars to prosecute a child. It's a waste of money and time.

That's using a hammer to kill a fly.

When we start preemptively prosecuting people for what could have happened, we become a state of fear that punishes the 95% of society for the potential acts of 5%.

With the logic employed here, we shouldn't let people with severe depression chop the vegetables for the salad because they may kill the family.

Sound ridiculous? So does sending a child to court for an inappropriate joke. I fucking did a bunch of stupid shit when I was a kid. All kids do. It's called growing up. The worse that happens is someone pukes, then treat it as though someone puked. This is an utter waste and it's an issue with society at large. When people would rather call the police than knock on their neighbors door to ask them to turn down the music or a 25 year-old calls their parents in to talk to their boss about the raise they didn't get, you have stupid shit like this to call as examples of the same problem.

Grow up. Deal with the child being a child.