Iced Pea

[Lone Gunman]

CARLISLE, Ky. - A Nicholas County High School student was suspended after he was accused of urinating in an ice machine that at least 31 people got ice from before the incident was reported.

Ben Buckler, chief of police for Nicholas County Schools, said another student dared the boy, who told officials he relieved himself in the ice machine in the gymnasium lobby just before physical education class Wednesday.

School law officials say charges will be filed, although officials were still trying to decide Thursday what to charge him with.

He was suspended for 10 days, pending an expulsion hearing.

Other students witnessed the incident, but it wasn't reported to Principal Doug Bechanan until Thursday morning. By the time the machine was taken out of service, some students and staff had taken ice from the machine.

School officials contacted the Department of Public Health in Frankfort.

"They said it was gross and morally wrong but not a health risk," Buckler said.

Health officials said urine is sterile because the body has its own filtering system. If any bacteria did make it through, the ice's temperature would have killed it.

But some students, parents and staff remained worried.

The Nicholas County School Board is picking up doctor bills "to ease the minds" of those who were exposed and want to be checked out anyway.

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[TexKan]

What is wrong with kids??? Doesn't anyone teach right from wrong? The only thing he's gonna be responsible for is gonna be the lab bills. Course his folks ought to bitch slap him into responsiblitly. Now days those "pranks" just aren't funny anymore. Course ya know we still have people that serve us food that don't wash hands, spit in food, drop food on floor.......I'm sure I've eaten worse than what this kid has done but it's just that he thought it was funny AND did it on a dare. Worse yet are the kids that knew about it and let it go on. No social responsiblity anymore....sad.......Funny stiory - but sad...

[K C Muffin]

Well, it would be funny.............if it would have been at a party where taxpayers wouldn't be eating the expenses. There ought to be a charge for it - criminal negligence or something. I'm sure they could put a hurt on him for a while. It ought to follow him in his school records, though, for when he gets into college.

[Lone Gunman]

Originally Posted by K C Muffin

Well, it would be funny.............if it would have been at a party where taxpayers wouldn't be eating the expenses. There ought to be a charge for it - criminal negligence or something. I'm sure they could put a hurt on him for a while. It ought to follow him in his school records, though, for when he gets into college.

Maybe they could charge him with molesting an ice machine. I'd convict him if I was on the jury.

[agnostic]

that's not even a funny prank. problem isn't just that kids aren't responsible and such, they're just not funny either.