Two Bainbridge Schoolgirls Held in Plot to Poison Teacher
From the Seattle-PI:
In a caper worthy of Wile E. Coyote’s finest failures, two 12-year-old girls from Bainbridge Island are accused of attempting to elude punishment for a tardy assignment Thursday by poisoning their teacher, Kasey Jeffers, with a flavored lip balm they knew would make her ill.
Jeffers, 58, is violently allergic to strawberries — common knowledge at Sakai Intermediate School, according to police, who arrested the youths on suspicion of assault after they were accused of coating the rim of their teacher’s coffee cup and water bottle with strawberry lip gloss.
“They had discussed using real strawberries but decided that would be fatal and this would just make her sick enough to leave school, which was what they wanted,” said Mark Duncan, the island’s deputy police chief. “It’s 12-year-old thinking at its finest.”
The girls had a report due on Thursday — an assignment that one had failed to complete — and to avoid punishment they began to conceive their plan, Duncan said. Neither child has been in trouble before, according to police and school officials.
“They clearly did not understand what would happen to them, or think through that making a teacher sick is pretty close to killing them when you’re talking about anaphylactic shock,” the deputy chief said.
Both girls, who regaled classmates with their caper, were reported by their peers. But the damage had already been done. Though other students raced to warn Jeffers, she had already sipped from one of the tainted vessels.
“12-year-old thinking at it’s finest”?
There are plenty of adults who think much the same way, like when they hatch a political plot and pass laws that are harmful to their neighbors but not damaging enough to kill them outright.
I’d say the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree. Entitlement gone wild.
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