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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / May 2004Attn Liz
How's that boy that drank the lab chemicals? Do they know what it was? Grace He's been upgraded to stable...his"friends" who dared him to drink the chemicals have been booted from school... as of earlier today...no report on what the chemicals were....Reminds me of the old addtage......"If your friend told you/dared you to jump off a bridge...would you?" Obviously...this idiot Thought Yes! Sheeez..... :-) Liz > How's that boy that drank the lab chemicals? Do they know what it was? > > Grace >."If your >friend told you/dared you to jump off a bridge...would you?" Or, in the case of my parents, "What are you, a herd animal?" That's a terrible story, so sad. A kid must be very insecure to be able to be talked into such a stupid thing. Sherry New release.....the idiot is home....now the poor science teachers are being reamed for "letting" the chemicals be taken...sheeez.... :-) Liz > How's that boy that drank the lab chemicals? Do they know what it was? > > Grace ":-)Liz" wrote: > New release.....the idiot is home....now the poor science teachers are being > reamed for "letting" the chemicals be taken...sheeez.... :-) Liz I didn't see the initial posting - how OLD were these kids? There isn't much Chemistry taught in elementary schools, and by the time they reach high school, one would assume at least rudimentary common sense. (Not always the case, apparently.) When I was in high school, we were allowed to do our lab work after school on our own time - I don't recall that a teacher was required to be present, although I suppose at some point the custodian came around to evict stray students and lock up. They were in high school Evelyn. He did it on a bet/dare for $2. They found him in the hallway bleeding from his nose and mouth. He was in critical condition for a few days, been a week I think. Monday the report had it saying his mother said the swelling in his throat had gone down enough he could communicate. They were awaiting toxology reports. Grace > ":-)Liz" wrote: > > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > that a teacher was required to be present, although I suppose at some > point the custodian came around to evict stray students and lock up. > They were in high school Evelyn. He did it on a bet/dare for $2. They > found him in the hallway bleeding from his nose and mouth. He was in > critical condition for a few days, been a week I think. Monday the > report had it saying his mother said the swelling in his throat had gone > down enough he could communicate. They were awaiting toxology reports. Even back in my day, when $2 represented a sizeable amount of money to a teenager (my weekly Saturday night baby-sitting only paid me $2.50), I can't imagine doing such a thing! Of course, we were a long time before the drug-culture - perhaps the idea of ingesting foreign substances not intended for human consumption was more daunting, then. (No one had yet thought of glue-sniffing, etc.) >> They were in high school Evelyn. He did it on a bet/dare for $2. >> They found him in the hallway bleeding from his nose and mouth. He [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >foreign substances not intended for human consumption was more >daunting, then. (No one had yet thought of glue-sniffing, etc.) I suspect that showing off his lack of fear was a bigger incentive than the $2 bet. Foolhardy bravado has been around as long as fools have. This reminds me of comic Jeff Foxworthy's joke about a redneck's last words: "Hey, everybody! Watch this!". I once was driving down the highway, several cars behind an open Jeep with a young woman and young man in the front seat, and another such pair in the back seat. They all looked to be in their early 20's. The pack of cars were all moving 70 miles an hour, or so. The man in the front seat stood up (in a vehicle with no side doors mounted), stretched, and then climbed over the roll bar into the back seat. I figured that he was trying to impress one or both young women, but if I had been one of them, my thoughts would have been "Do I really want to date someone this lacking in common sense?". Had he fallen out of the car at that speed, even if there hadn't been any other vehicles on the road, he would have been crippled or killed. With several other cars immediately behind his vehicle, it would have been almost certain that he would have been struck and killed.  SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria >How's that boy that drank the lab chemicals? Do they know what it >was? > >Grace I can't find any post on rec.pets.cats.anecdotes about this, either on Google or in Agent's database. Was this something that was on TV or in the newspaper? Can you provide a link to an article? SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria It wasn't on rpca. It was an article that appeared on CNN earlier this week very close to where Liz lives. I don't have the link anymore, I just saw it in passing. Maybe she'll have the local newspaper link that'll give better updates than CNN :) Grace > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better > than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria I caught the news about it via CNN as well as I had been in Dallas for 3 weeks... I just got back here... It's back to Dallas again I go in 2 weeks...It's been in the paper and on the local news daily here... Usually they post daily reports on it here.... http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.asp?brd=2288 I remember back in High School...low those many moons ago...students in my Advanced Chem class(I myself included ) stayed late and on occasion... if we could catch a security guard to let us in early... worked in the lab on projects...with no teachers ...this wasn't a small high school ... we had 777 graduate when I did....I think the downfall of education and intelligence has become horrible! When teachers started "dumbing down" the education process to the lowest denominater things went rapidly to Hell and Gone!....JMTCW.... :-) Liz > It wasn't on rpca. It was an article that appeared on CNN earlier this > week very close to where Liz lives. I don't have the link anymore, I [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better > > than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria >I caught the news about it via CNN as well as I had been in Dallas >for 3 weeks... I just got back here... It's back to Dallas again I [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >down" the education process to the lowest denominater things went >rapidly to Hell and Gone!....JMTCW.... :-) Liz Thanks, Liz! I just checked the above web site, and it states that the student in question is now back home from the hospital. The high school is investigating how he got hold of the chemicals, since they were reportedly stolen from the chemistry lab, rather than him drinking the still-unnamed chemical during class. SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria |
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