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9/14/2006 11:07:57 AM EDT
Found this over on Fox in Out There:



Eighth Grader Goes Cherry Commando With Prank on Teacher's Coffee

LENEXA, Kan. (AP) — A student was sentenced to six months of probation for contaminating a teacher's coffee with a cherry sports drink.

The boy was found guilty Tuesday of a misdemeanor charge of adulterating the coffee on Jan. 26 but not guilty of a second count that allegedly occurred Jan. 5. At the time, the boy was an eighth-grader at Trailridge Middle School in Lenexa.

The boy brought a cherry sports drink to school and a classmate put a capful into the teacher's coffee as part of a prank, defense attorney Stephen Mirakian, who argued that the boy's actions were not criminal behavior.

The prosecutor, however, said the boy brought the GI Joe Survival Beverage — Cherry Commando — to school intending to place it in the teacher's coffee. The teacher went to a hospital on Jan. 5, prosecutor Kristiane Gray said.

The teacher testified that a parent called her in late February to tell her about the incidents, which were being discussed by students on Xanga.com, a social networking Web site.

The teacher said she went to a hospital emergency room after having pain in her arm and heart palpitations, and she was eventually given medication for high blood pressure.

The classmate acknowledged his part in the prank and was granted diversion.

Mirakian said the boy's family is considering an appeal.



What is up with that?  How can they be connecting the sports drink with the heart palpitations and high BP?
9/14/2006 11:10:55 AM EDT
[#1]
I think I just found a new nickname.   "Cherry Commando"
9/14/2006 11:12:39 AM EDT
[#2]
Thats BS...  It's one more reason to hate public school teachers.
9/14/2006 11:15:02 AM EDT
[#3]
Just because the teacher could be a fucking fatass with high blood pressure, doesn't mean that a fucking cherry commando capful in their coffee would mean DIRE MEDICAL ATTENTION.

What a big dummy dick.

I can keep going on and on about this story................... But I won't. Too fucking stupid.
9/14/2006 11:15:53 AM EDT
[#4]

Quoted:

What is up with that?  How can they be connecting the sports drink with the heart palpitations and high BP?


She probably freaked out when she drank the coffee and realized it had been tampered with.  Unfortunately, teachers' drinks are sometimes adulterated with stuff a lot more harmful than Cherry Commando.

Which, incidentally, is an excellent name for either a female porn star or an all-girl rock band.
9/14/2006 11:18:22 AM EDT
[#5]
The reason the teacher wentto the hospital with heart palpitations and high blood pressure was becuase when she first found out about the "prank", she was told that she had been poisoned. It wasn't until later that the substance was identified.

What would you do if you found out that someone claims to have poisoned you repeatedly over several weeks?
9/14/2006 11:19:06 AM EDT
[#6]
I wanna go Cherry Commando!
9/14/2006 11:21:29 AM EDT
[#7]

Quoted:
The reason the teacher wentto the hospital with heart palpitations and high blood pressure was becuase when she first found out about the "prank", she was told that she had been poisoned. It wasn't until later that the substance was identified.

What would you do if you found out that someone claims to have poisoned you repeatedly over several weeks?



Where do you find that?  I do not see anything in the article to support that it was over a period of several weeks or that she was told it was poisoned.

If I thought somebody had messed with my drink I would not finish it . . . something like the 'Cherry Commando' would probably leave SOME flavor in an amount to be significant.
9/14/2006 11:22:30 AM EDT
[#8]

Quoted:
I wanna go Cherry Commando!


I can make that your user name
9/14/2006 11:23:00 AM EDT
[#9]

Quoted:

Quoted:
The reason the teacher wentto the hospital with heart palpitations and high blood pressure was becuase when she first found out about the "prank", she was told that she had been poisoned. It wasn't until later that the substance was identified.

What would you do if you found out that someone claims to have poisoned you repeatedly over several weeks?



Where do you find that?  I do not see anything in the article to support that it was over a period of several weeks or that she was told it was poisoned.

If I thought somebody had messed with my drink I would not finish it . . . something like the 'Cherry Commando' would probably leave SOME flavor in an amount to be significant.
It was on the news this morning.
9/14/2006 11:24:12 AM EDT
[#10]

Quoted:
Thats BS...  It's one more reason to hate public school teachers.


You got that right. If I had to do it all over agian I would home school.
9/14/2006 11:24:15 AM EDT
[#11]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Quoted:
The reason the teacher wentto the hospital with heart palpitations and high blood pressure was becuase when she first found out about the "prank", she was told that she had been poisoned. It wasn't until later that the substance was identified.

What would you do if you found out that someone claims to have poisoned you repeatedly over several weeks?



Where do you find that?  I do not see anything in the article to support that it was over a period of several weeks or that she was told it was poisoned.

If I thought somebody had messed with my drink I would not finish it . . . something like the 'Cherry Commando' would probably leave SOME flavor in an amount to be significant.
It was on the news this morning.



Ahhhh.... I see.
9/14/2006 11:28:59 AM EDT
[#12]
If she was told her drink was poisoned the heart palpitations could be due to stress and panic. I'd certainly freak out if someone told me I've been poisoned.

Another possibility is that the cherry-drink was sweetened with aspartame and this lady was violently allergic to it. It is extremely rare, but some people react to aspartame in a very severe way.

In any case, the judgement is far too extreme. A simple prank by a stupid child should be handled with a scolding, not probation.
9/14/2006 11:32:52 AM EDT
[#13]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I wanna go Cherry Commando!


I can make that your user name


nah, but I like to put my whiskey in some cherry every now and then....
9/14/2006 11:35:41 AM EDT
[#14]
Shame on that prosecutor and shame on that judge.

Way to get tough on crime!!!!!  
On a positive note, at least the little creep didn't try to steal her ATV.