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| Girls, 12, Allegedly Poison Teacher |
| 2007-04-01 |
| BAINBRIDGE ISLAND -- The plot hatched as such things often do, in minds made desperate by fear. It involved chemistry, strategy and notions of a clean getaway. The victim? An unsuspecting sixth-grade teacher. The weapon? Strawberry lip gloss. 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." More on this Crime of the Century at link... |
| Posted by:Dave D. |
| #4 Bainbridge Island is a wealthy Island and left wingish. Do you think the teacher Ms Kasey Jeffers is altogether ready to go back to work? She might be rushing to accept the attempt on her life ["the poisoning incident"] and rushing to forgive the perps just to get the whole business behind her. I'd give her more time myself. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ on a brighter note: Bainbridge Island is a beautiful Island up in Washington State. [try the hybrid and zoom in] A Great Island to take the Misses up for whatever..to get away for stateside relaxation and do what comes natural. Or 0600 forced marches to sites within 100 miles barely stopping till midnight then nosediving into bed. Bainbridge Island has WWII history: Fort Ward, were Navy signals personal intercepted Top Secrete Japanese military communications Fort Ward dedication to the men and women who served. Near by Seals play at Keyport Naval undersea engineering station And a few miles West of Keyport there's a little boat ;-) |
| Posted by: RD 2007-04-01 17:19 |
| #3 This reminds me of an incident in my high school. Two students were laughing about how they had once slipped acid (psych kind) in my science teacher's coffee cup. They were guffawing over how he had said, "I don't think I feel well" and had to sit down. It was well after the fact and he was still teaching - but I was beyond stunned. I was too young and stupid to have thought about reporting it, especially since he was obviously ok. Later in life I noticed that he had MS or someother such illness and I always wondered if that incident could have been a factor. It still makes me feel guilty today, though there was nothing I could have said or done to have changed any of it. |
| Posted by: Angaiger Tojo1904 2007-04-01 12:24 |
| #2 Spare the rod... |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-04-01 06:51 |
| #1 This is attempted murder with intent to do great bodily harm and nothing else. Treat it as such. Try these cretins as adults. Murder is in a class all by irself. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-01 00:56 |