Girls pour acid in teacher's coffee

UPI - text copied - no url | 10/11/01

[NativeNewYorker]

AURORA, Ill., Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Two middle-school students Thursday were being held in juvenile detention for allegedly spiking their science teacher's coffee with hydrochloric acid.

The 31-year-old teacher suffered mouth burns and spit out the coffee after taking a sip. He was treated at Dreyer Medical Clinic and released. The incident occurred Wednesday at K.D. Waldo Middle School, after the teacher left a study hall briefly to monitor the hall.

He was preparing for his next class and had warned the girls about the dangers of hydrochloric acid before leaving them in the room. The 13-year-old girl allegedly acted as a lookout while the 12-year-old poured acid into the teacher's coffee mug, a school official said.

The girls were charged as juveniles with felony aggravated battery.

During a court hearing, their lawyer said the girls thought they were pouring water into the coffee cup but the judge asked why one had acted as a lookout.

The girls were ordered to remain at the Kane County Juvenile Justice Center.

[jlogajan]

battery acid is sulfuric acid

If you are going to be a literalist, then you'll need to know that you can make batteries out of all acids, and all bases, for that matter. nyah nyah

[Askel5]

Lol ... love your handle.

[rightofrush]

Looks like you overlooked: "Got it. Nice word play."

As for HCl used as battery acid, Cl2 ain't a whole lot of fun.

[jlogajan]

Just funn'in with ya!

[exit82]

Don't know why, but the first image that came to mind was Jackie Gleason starting his show from Miami Beach, saying, "UMMMMMMMM, That's good COF-fee".

[Aquinasfan]

What in the hell is going on with kids today?

School. TV. Working parents. It's a deadly combination.

[bettina0]

No, a school that would expell a student will bend over backwards and make all sorts of excuses to protect a teacher, even that phony Bin-Ladin in California who burned a flag in his classroom. He's back at school. What do you think would happen to a student who burned a flag in class? On second thought, maybe nothing since the pinkos control the California schools.

[fone]

They are spoiled, undiciplined and have never been taught the concept of taking responsibility for one's actions.

"Values Clarification" classes in the public skools teaches them that whatever they believe is okay.

[TN Republican]

Hydrochloric acid is present in your stomach's digestive juices. Mixed with coffee (no buffering capacity there though; pH = 5), it would probably not burn any worse than a big wet belch after a Mexican lunch.

The science teacher is partly to blame himself, for (1) leaving two kids (especially just a couple of study hall kids/discipline problems who have not been instructed in lab safety) alone with a beaker of hydrochloric acid, and (2) leaving anything he intends to consume out where it could easily be contaminated by some devious little bastard.

I hope he wouldn't have left something really poisonous out there, or he could have been dead. The danger with hydrochloric acid is not that it's poisonous, but those two little c@n+$ probably didn't know and didn't care either.