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Two guys brought cans of a “fart/vomit” spray to school. Some students ended up vomiting, headaches, and some went to the hospital to be checked out. Because of the definition of the law the two teens are being charged with a felony.
Two guys brought cans of a “fart/vomit” spray to school. Some students ended up vomiting, headaches, and some went to the hospital to be checked out. Because of the definition of the law the two teens are being charged with a felony.
I wonder if this is worse than stink bombs?
From Googie:
12.34. THIRD DEGREE FELONY PUNISHMENT. (a) An individual adjudged guilty of a felony of the third degree shall be punished by imprisonment in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for any term of not more than 10 years or less than 2 years.
I'm sorry. I'm all for clamping down on this stuff, prank or not. The can of stank was apparently classified as a 'prohibited weapon.' And look at the response that had to be initiated, people being taken to the hospital, evacuation, etc. NOT FUNNY.
Play stupid games....win yourself a felony conviction (which I'm sure won't happen, ultimately).
From Googie:
12.34. THIRD DEGREE FELONY PUNISHMENT. (a) An individual adjudged guilty of a felony of the third degree shall be punished by imprisonment in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for any term of not more than 10 years or less than 2 years.
I'm sorry. I'm all for clamping down on this stuff, prank or not. The can of stank was apparently classified as a 'prohibited weapon.' And look at the response that had to be initiated, people being taken to the hospital, evacuation, etc. NOT FUNNY.
Play stupid games....win yourself a felony conviction (which I'm sure won't happen, ultimately).
What makes it worse is they did it twice and both times resulted in evacuating the school. They got away with it the first time.
I agree. Even if you want to make an example out of these teens, a felony charge seems insane here. Apparently there are some possible constitutional concerns with the law as applied to this situation (I'd have to read more into that, though), so we'll see what the ultimate charges end up being.
What makes it worse is they did it twice and both times resulted in evacuating the school. They got away with it the first time.
From my reading of the article, there's a lot unclear about that.
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He also said he understand the school district and law enforcement taking the matter seriously. The school was evacuated twice, and several students did go to the hospital, but he worries about what potential felony charges could do to alter these young people's lives.
That doesn't tell us whether the students engaged in two separate incidents or whether, say, the school evacuated a second time as a precaution due to some unknown factor. As an example, if the school thought that there were other fart bombs/sprays on scene that they didn't get after the initial incident, that could have led to a second evacuation on the same day without the teens actually having engaged in the stunt a second time. Or perhaps a false alarm about a second stink attack that led to a second evacuation. I'm not saying this is what happened, just that it's not clear that the teens did this twice (at least not from the article in your OP).
Two guys brought cans of a “fart/vomit” spray to school. Some students ended up vomiting, headaches, and some went to the hospital to be checked out. Because of the definition of the law the two teens are being charged with a felony.
My favorite senior prank that went awry (in a funny way) was in a high school I taught in in northern Virginia. I don't even remember now what the seniors involved did, but it was out in a courtyard. The administrators simply locked the doors to the courtyard and wrote down each name of the kids in the courtyard.
My favorite senior prank that went awry (in a funny way) was in a high school I taught in in northern Virginia. I don't even remember now what the seniors involved did, but it was out in a courtyard. The administrators simply locked the doors to the courtyard and wrote down each name of the kids in the courtyard.
Our class got permission to TP the school’s exterior on the grounds that our class help pick it up. A few naturally went a step further. In the center grounds they placed a road block sign, a broken TV, a sofa, a scarecrow sitting on the sofa (with a TV remote and cigarettes).
We had a full blown food fight. Kids got in trouble -- detention after the last day of school for like a week or something like that. I guess everyone involved should have been charged with firing missiles inside a school.
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