Trending: Out-of-control teenagers coughing on grocery store produce

Washington Examiner ^ | 03/20/20 | Paul Bedard

[Old Yeller]

Idle teenagers are participating in a “disturbing trend” of coughing on grocery store produce and posting their pranks online as the nation fights the coronavirus, which is known to spread from human “droplets” spraying from mouths.

The latest incident occurred in the Washington exurb of Purcellville, Virginia, some 55 miles from the White House.

According to a Purcellville Police Department report, “an incident occurred at a local grocery store involving juveniles reportedly coughing on produce, while filming themselves and posting it on social media.”

The report said that the store, identified on social media as Harris Teeter, immediately removed the items and cleaned up the area. The police said, "The grocery store immediately removed the items in question, and has taken appropriate measures to ensure the health of store patrons."

On a community Facebook page, one woman who said she witnessed the event wrote, “Punk teenagers are hitting the grocery stores, coughing all over the produce and the grocery items — filming it and posting it to YouTube. It scared the hell out of one elderly woman who was just trying to grocery shop. Why the hell aren’t these people keeping their teens home??? This is not summer vacay!”

The police investigating the case said that there is a national trend by teenagers to cough on food and film it.

“We are asking for parental assistance in monitoring your teenagers’ activities, as well as their social media posts to avoid the increase of any further such incidents. We have learned that this appears to be a disturbing trend on social media across the country, and we ask for help from parents to discourage this behavior immediately,” said the police.

In the past two weeks, schools around the nation have closed as authorities deal with the virus.

[Old Yeller]

Teens? And the melanin-deficit who want to be teens, so they do the same thing?

[Old Yeller]

Morons. Who in their right mind would be buying exposed produce now anyway?

[CatOwner]

"We are asking for parental assistance in monitoring your teenagers’ activities ..."

Not going to happen. But they can pretend they are giving solid advice.

[RasterMaster]

I don’t think parents of such trash would qualify as a “parent”.

[ealgeone]

There’s a way to remedy this.

[MV=PY]

"Who in their right mind would be buying exposed produce now anyway?"

Just curious, where do you get your produce?

[shotgun]

If I saw something like that I would go full Terrible Terry Tate, Office Linebacker on them. These feral yutes need a good ass whoopin.

[Old Yeller]

Just curious, where do you get your produce?

Since this crap has happened, I get only packaged frozen fruits and vegetables. Prior to this I bought fresh.

[FreedomForce]

Charge them with bio-terrorism.

[LeonardFMason]

Locate the “Parents” and Fine them $1,000.00
Publish their Names in the Community.
400 Hours community service.

[ClearCase_guy]

I’m not sure I’d do a good job of controlling myself if I saw this.

[OpusatFR]

Charge them with public endangerment and fine the hell out of the parents.

[Brilliant]

The only kind of produce I will eat is things like oranges and bananas where you don’t eat the peel.

[Bitman]

IMHO, this is just a symptom of a much deeper problem.

[MV=PY]

Thanks, I hadn’t thought of that.

[Brilliant]

Send them back to school.

[HighSierra5]

Their melons need to be thumped.

[Old Yeller]

I’m not sure I’d do a good job of controlling myself if I saw this.

Just remember, in the halls of "justice", you aren't the protected class, so you'd pay the price of any harm that came to them in their crimes.

[AndyJackson]

Work Gangs

[Old Yeller]

The only kind of produce I will eat is things like oranges and bananas where you don’t eat the peel.

Well, I do still buy bananas. I need to be more careful about washing after peeling, and not touching fruit until after washing.