I once led a noon hour mission that involved securing all objects within 20 feet of our home room teacher’s desk (including the drawers and his chair) with Crazy Glue.
Imagine the fun had we been able to coat every surface with strawberry jam.
I once led a noon hour mission that involved securing all objects within 20 feet of our home room teacher’s desk (including the drawers and his chair) with Crazy Glue.
Imagine the fun had we been able to coat every surface with strawberry jam.
Second degree assault? What about attempted murder? Call a spade a spade, for crying out loud.
I once put a corn snake in my 3rd Grade teacher’s desk drawer. When she went to get a piece of chalk she opened the drawer, the snake said “Howdy” and ol’ Miss Walsh let out a scream that may still be echoing several decades later. She then ran shrieking out of the room and disappeared long enough for the gym teacher to collar the poor snake. I was never caught, because no one snitched. Later that year Miss Walsh saw me walking toward her along the sidewalk and crossed the street while glaring at me with a mixture of hate and fear. I’m still very proud of that memory.
The teacher in question’s name was “Mr McQuiggen”. He like to wear pink shirts.
The Colour Of Doom.
Putting a live frog in the hand of your golf pal who is expecting his golf ball is fun.
According to the article, Dennis, these 12 year old girls said they wanted to make the teacher sick, not kill the the teacher, so assault is probably more appropriate than attempted murder.
These girls have made a big mistake. In all the stunts I pulled growing up, and I’ll match wits with anyone, I never tried to make a person sick. Yet, certainly, at the age of 12, I made some over-reaching gestures — didn’t everyone? The underlying question, as I see it, is whether or not these are “bad” girls continuing to misbehave, or “good” girls who over-reached in their attempt at executing growing up.
As far as I can tell, we don’t have that information, so I am loath to judge. But I will say that if they are “good” girls who just made a serious mistake, at the age of 12, I hope their going through “the system” doesn’t do more harm than good.
“Chelsea, I thought you brought the epi-pen?”
As you sow, so shall you reap.
As you sow, so shall you reap.
As Vitruvius pointed out, I personally would like to believe these are two girls made a mistake by “…who over-reached in their attempt at executing growing up.”
The problem as I see it is that when most of us were children our exposures to such pranks were from TV shows like “Leave it to Beaver”, “Father Knows Best” etc… and our pranks paralleled what we saw here. These were quite benign compared to what our 12 year olds are exposed to today.
Although I believe that 12 year olds know the basic difference between right and wrong; how do they cope and understand the consequences of actions that they see on TV and Movies today with their own deeds. After all a in a 44 minute show today these same things seem to get done but there is no time to show remorse and often no time to show consequence.
Just a thought….
Kids nowadays are much less aware about consequence and empathy. Egocentric instant gratification is the standard message continuously carpet bombing our youth from media sources. Religion has been pushed out off the information road by sheer volume and number. There’s no air time left for the wholesome stuff that doesn’t sell.
I’d be interested in knowing if the two girls spent a week or two attending vacation bible school every summer. That was the norm in our neighbourhood while I was growing. Our world has been driven by various agendas to become much more selfish.
It’s also interesting that the target of the girl’s assault was a public school teacher. Isn’t it the public system over the last several decades that’s been forcefully stripped clean of any connection to Christianity and it’s moral teachings?
Ural’s comment above pretty much nails the problem…societywide.
Another example of the pending Gulag domestic militancy in US administrative culture.
Any time you allow yourself or your child to become “subject/client” in a federal/state run public administration you get this marshal law enforcement bullying…like the civil service has gone schitzo-paranoid and is pointing a gun at any noise in the dark.
In Texas they jail your kid for truency or any other misdemenor committed in class. Since the “zero tolerance” administrative agendas have come down in the texas public schools systems , numbers in juvinile detentention have doubled….now there’s a scandal there with the Juvie system attracting pedophiles and other preditors…it just gets worse.
Bottom line: don’t expect anything from the modern state unless it is an inferior over priced service with gestapo-esque regulatory regimes.
There is a big difference between pranks and malevolence. These young’uns knew they were doing harm and should be punished. I,for one,am a strong adherent to the potential possibilities of mayhem when a tube of crazy glue is wielded by a mischievious mind. I worked as a bartender and would occasionally glue empties to the table just to amuse myself and really drive the waitresses around the bend.A sharp knock would free the bottles,but they didn’t know that. While I am on the subject,and tomorrow is THE day for pranksters,here is one that I will share. Tonight while you are out with your loved one,pick up a $2 6/49 quick pick.Stick it on the fridge or wherever. Tomorrow morning,go out and buy a ticket with the winning numbers that were drawn and replace the ticket from the night before with the “winning” ticket you just purchased. Ask your honey to check the numbers. Most people will not check the date,would you? As an added bonus,if he/she does not go Krazy with glee,but instead just pockets the ticket and goes for a walk,well,you can take that to the bank too.Cheers.
It would be really funny to put crazy glue on the seats/handles of some people’s motorcycles. 🙂
….as you reap, you sow….absolutely!!! ha ha!
Anon,read the first line of my previous post again.
Heck, these days kids can get charged with carrying a concealed weapon unless they have a permit to carry a PB&J sandwich. A lot of the crap we pulled as kids would have been more than enough reason to get us a permanent prescription of Ritalin.
Way back then,we had “special” classes for the hard-to-handle.My mom always said I was “special”. Back to pranks for April Fools Day,if your “special” someone cooks breakfast for you tomorrow,it would not be a bad idea to hard=boil a few eggs tonight and then put them back in the carton.Cheers.
Wally j, I was being sarcastic. Allergies are nothing to fool around with, and crazy glue can cause harm as well. That’s not funny, especially if it’s you being harmed…
I taught high school. Our school is large with long hallways and several levels with the necessary stairs. The janitors were extraordinary in keeping the halls clean. One day people started slipping and falling – hard. Several teachers were hurt badly with broken bones. A couple of kids fell so hard they hit their heads and had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance.
Turns out some kids came in early and sprayed WD-40 all over the school. What they thought would be funny turned out to be horrific. You couldn’t see the stuff, so when you strode into it, you were a goner.
um. No. No one was beating teachers with bones. :}
When i went to high school there was a dictionary in our library showing a chimp on a tricycle someone wrote the name of the pricipal next to the chimp