Boys Wreck School, Kill Fish to Skip Class

Yahoo! ^ | Friday, May 30, 2003 | Reuters

[Willie Green]

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Two German teenagers have laid waste to a school, wrecking 25 classrooms with hammers and killing the janitor's fish with a fire extinguisher.

The boys, 14 and 17, caused one million euros ($1.2 million) of damage by smashing up furniture and ripping out water pipes to flood the school in the Bavarian town of Fuerth, police said Friday.

They also set fire to the adjacent kindergarten. Amid the chaos, the pair emptied a fire extinguisher's contents into the tank of the luckless fish.

The boys said they embarked on the three-and-a-half-hour orgy of violence because it was fun, police said.

The younger boy said he also hoped that by wrecking the school, he would get out of having to attend. Both of them now face a spell in a young offenders' institution instead.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

Zey ver only vollowink or-DERS!

[Catalonia]

Impossible! Germany has government-supplied healthcare. Such things are impossible in paradise!

[coloradan]

This is all America's fault, just like school shootings over there are also America's fault.

[Dog Gone]

Every taxpayer should be allowed five minutes alone with them to do whatever is "fun."

[Willie Green]

Every taxpayer should be allowed five minutes alone with them to do whatever is "fun."

Only if the janitor is permitted to go first.

[sackofcatfood]

At my school those boys would have been found in permanent residence with the fish.

fyi, don't mess with our janitors

[ikka]

The Germans go crazy every 50 or 100 years. They need a good war, then after that they straighten themselves out for a while.

[WI Fire]

Poor kids - they were just "misunderstood".

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[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

spell?

[Calpernia]

Comments from a Janitor

[xm177e2]

They should be taken outside and shot. A half-million dollars damage each is just too much. It would only be a further waste of money to keep them in jail.