Posted on 09/25/2006 1:15:11 PM PDT by Abathar
Police Say Boy Poked Other Team With Thumbtack
LAYTON, Utah -- A 15-year-old high school football player faces simple assault charges for putting a thumbtack in his glove before shaking hands and high-fiving players from a rival school, authorities said.
The student was kicked off the team following the incident, which happened Thursday after a game against Davis High School. The student's name has not been released.
"This was a young man who made a very immature decision," said Layton High School Assistant Principal Dee Burton.
Several members of the Davis team were jabbed with the tack, said Layton Police Sgt. James Petre. One chose to press charges.
The two schools have a long history of playing pranks on each other, school officials said.
Davis School District spokesman Christopher Williams said he was told salt had been poured on the Layton football field earlier this week, but "that does not justify what the student did."
He said he did not know if the field was damaged.
"There's been a rivalry between the two for years, but it doesn't justify one student to hurt another student," Williams said.
Along with criminal charges, the student could face further sanctions from the school if an administrator decides the tack was a weapon and that the incident wasn't merely a prank, school officials said.
Layton is 20 miles north of Salt Lake City.
Oh good grief, if these people were in charge when I was a kid I STILL wouldn't be eligable for parole yet...
A thumbtack injury isn't a big deal, but's not a prank when you give someone a blood transfusion from a random set of people.
Good point.
Ok, when I was a kid we didn't have to sorry so much about that i guess.
Back a long time ago, I worked in a shop building cabinets and during lunch, a common prank (done on my and by me) was to shoot a 9/16" staple through the 1/2" plywood someone would be sitting on while eating lunch.
Someone would sneak up, stick the stapler under your seat, and punch one through. It never hurt too bad and barely broke the skin, but the combination of sound and pain would usually get someone completely off their feet in the air.
The world is getting pretty thin skinned.
We put a thumbtack in a guy's seat in HS, before class, and all the teacher made us do was stay after class and lecture us on how immature it was........but it was still funny........
I will agree. I'm not too big on the "it was only a tack" defense.
I guess they don't do "Blood Wings" anymore for newly minted paratroopers...
We put them on the teachers seat once and we had to clean the chalkboards during recess for a week. Never had to worry about a lawyer and getting expelled though.
Sounds to me like the student isn't the only one making bad decisions. Where do they get these people that run schools these days?
Get the UN involved.
They still do that, thats one tradition that will not be denied anyone who chooses it. :)
salt had been poured on the Layton football field
Yeah, salt. That's brilliant. Nothing will ever top the time we hit the Churchill High football field with 20-20-20 fertilizer a week before the home opener and spelled out "COOKIE HAS AIDS". That was ribald comedy in it's highest form.
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
When he and his family get through paying for all the blood tests, including HIV, they won't be laughing. If anyone had a communicable disease, it will get much worse.
The teacher was sacrosanct in my day............
Not even as far back as high school - but just a few years ago at work, people would pour a little water on your chair so when you sat down you'd get the "cold water on your ass" shock. After everybody started checking their chair before sitting, the culprits started injecting the water with a syringe into the seat cushion so it couldn't be seen when you looked at the fabric.
I'm afraid nowdays we'd have a lawsuit on our hands if we did that sort of stuff.
Our favorite prank was gluing the telephone handset to the phone itself and then go call the person. When they'd try to answer the phone the whole phone set would lift up. For some odd reason, the office manager frowned on that sort of thing.
Thumbtack in chair, water balloons, paperclips and rubberband, spit balls, urinating on the radiator, soap and water on the restroom floors(soap hockey), tripping, thumping ears, stooge eye poking, passing gas in the bus on a cold day, crude noises, wedgies, titty twisters, pitch up and smear, throwing the dodgeball really hard, tossing books out a window, indian burns, wet willies, and flinging peas: Everyone I know would still be in prison.
Substitute teachers, we made one run from the room crying. Caught hell both at school and at home though, so I learned my lesson the hard way. Usually the only way they stick sometimes.
Amazing how the left rushes to convict this kid but is very happy to forgive throat slitters, bus bombers, airplane bombers.
Wow! Sounds like you were just a joy to be around. We had a guy like that at our school. One day, a bunch of other guys decided they'd had enough of his crap. He was out of school for a week.
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