How low can we go?
How low can we go?
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#1How low can we go?
Posted: 4/19/08 at 10:48pm
Student tries to harm another student by giving her a peanut product which she is severely allergic to.
Peanut Butter and Deadly Taunts
A Combination of Bullying and Peanut Allergies May Put Some Kids in the ER. Mean tricks or sneaking candy looks like mild behavioral problems to school administrators. On the other hand, given serious peanut allergy, those sandwiches might very well have been weapons.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/AllergiesNews/Story?id=4659705&page=1
http://www.kentucky.com/779/story/380893.html
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
#2re: How low can we go?
Posted: 4/19/08 at 10:53pmWow. That's sick. Unfortunately, that kind of behavior amongst kids is not new. I guess that's what happens when people treat food allergies like a tiny paranoia, and not the life-and-death matter that they are.
#3re: How low can we go?
Posted: 4/19/08 at 10:54pmThey should charge the kids with attempted murder.
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#4re: How low can we go?
Posted: 4/19/08 at 10:56pm
there were nuts in those brownies!
How sad.
KrissySim
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/08
#5re: How low can we go?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 3:58am
At the very least the kids who did that should be expelled from school. They should not be allowed to come in any further contact with the potential victim.
I've always wondered about countries and care organizations that airlift food supplies which include peanut butter to famine victims and war refugees.
It would seem better to airlift the kinds of foods the people are accustomed to in their normal diets. Peanut allergies are just one extreme example of possible consequences.
#6re: How low can we go?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 4:11amMy ex is really allergic to peanuts. I remember one night I jokingly put peanut butter in his mouth thinking he just didn't like peanut butter and I thought he would kill me. He didn't swallow it but he did get sick. That was many years ago. Taught me a lesson about not messing with people and their allergies. I felt so bad. He remains my best friend in the world and I make sure to keep all peanut products away from him when he visits me. He can't even handle the smell.
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