Breath mints are bad mmkay....

[Calanen]

School decides breath mints are lookalike drugs
(Category: Ohio )

9 Students Sent To Hospital After Eating Mints

A student at Jackson Memorial Middle School brought a package of Blast Energy SuppleMints to school and shared them with his classmates. These peppermint breath mints resemble Altoids and contain 15 mg of caffeine per serving of 6 mints. For reference, a Coke contains 46 mg of caffeine. The students were taken to the hospital, treated and released. The boy who brought the mints was suspended for 10 days for possession of a look-alike drug.

Cheryl Haschak, superintendent of the Jackson Local school district, said the suspension was for violating the school's ban on drugs, which covers drug-free items that look like pills.

Police estimate about 39 mints were unaccounted for and could have been eaten by the students.
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Police were investigating and said they would file charges if the mints contained illegal substances. Caffeine is legal.

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

Excuse me?!?!?!



Whaaa....

 

[Dinkleberry]

And so they should be banned!

 

[Feath]

"Possession of a look alike drug"?

What a stupid charge. They're friggin mints.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Thats possibly one of the dumbest things I've heard a school doing.

 

[Sui]

Suspending someone for eating mints. I think, seeing as this happened in America, that he should sue. I mean it would be pathetically easy to win a court trial, you just say that "I bought them from a supermarket and was not informed mints were illegal", then go on to say that the 10 day suspension was severely affecting his education, and he feels he may get a lower grade for not knowing some of the curriculum etc etc...

 

[Kangy]

Oh crap. I take like 10,000+ polos a year.

I'm so screwed.

 

[Nephtis]

Ban Caffine and many shall die.

 

[MetalHead]

America is ****ed

 

[el Chi]

Police estimate about 39 mints were unaccounted for and could have been eaten by the students.

How much a crime-free haven is that place that the police have time to investigate mints?
I would've told the headteacher to f*ck himself and find and try the mints himself. Then, when he's buzzin' off his tits on ecstasy, I'd arrest him. For fun.
I'd be an awesome police chief.


As an aside - I heard somewhere that excessive mint consumption can lead to impotence, although I doubt it a little bit.

 

[Ennui]

Thats possibly one of the dumbest things I've heard a school doing.

my school banned white t-shirts last year.

 

[oldagerocker]

lol Chi. I can sort of imagine that happening here you know... teachers can go over the top.... but over here it wouldnt surprise me if kids did Ecstacy in school. I know lots did weed when i was at school... stupid chavs.

 

[Fat Tony!]

omg im am like teh uber junky, I eat lots of teh mints and my teacher sometimes deals us some mints!!!111

 

[Calanen]

my school banned white t-shirts last year.

I remember Saddam in Gulf War I banned the army from having white anything so they could not surrender. Was your school using similar reasoning?

 

[el Chi]

lol Chi. I can sort of imagine that happening here you know... teachers can go over the top.... but over here it wouldnt surprise me if kids did Ecstacy in school. I know lots did weed when i was at school... stupid chavs.

I know people who did Ketamin (a horse tranquilizer, for those of you who don't know) in school. For the first time. They f*cked themselves up really badly, had to go to hospital, etc. Morons :hmph:
Try everything once if you wish, but in school? That's just retarded. Are you trying to prove something?

 

[CREMATOR666]

Nooooo!!! My polos!!! You heartless people!

 

[baron insig]

Never been drunk under the inufluence of nething but caffiene in school

i drank loads of redbull was hyper it was fun

 

[Shodan]

Ban Caffine and many shall die.

Many will fall asleep at their desks.

 

[willyd]

I remember Saddam in Gulf War I banned the army from having white anything so they could not surrender. Was your school using similar reasoning?

Oh my god, that to me was the funniest thing ever. I was cracking up hardcore.

 

[Dalamari]

lol, in school I take my altoids like a tab of acid, it really gets looks from the staff

 

[Pressure]

It said 6 mints had 15 mg of caffine and a coke has 46 mg. You'd have to eat 18 mints to get as much as 1 coke. Then how many did they have to eat to get hospitalized?

 

[Maxi]

18 * X where (X/6)/15 is the ammount of mg caffien it takes to hospitalize a person.

 

[jondy]

It said 6 mints had 15 mg of caffine and a coke has 46 mg. You'd have to eat 18 mints to get as much as 1 coke. Then how many did they have to eat to get hospitalized?

I s'pect they were hospitalized because they thought the mints were drugs, and took appropriate action. Hm.

 

[nbk]

This gives me such an urge to take mints to school to see what they say. We can't eat stuff in class, though. Some people sniff stuff at lunch.

 

[Lucid]

my school banned white t-shirts last year.

No wet t-shirt contests?! :frown:

 

[ne0_shiny]

ahaha
mints...i dont really eat em that much cause they dont do anything for me ;(

I know people who did Ketamin (a horse tranquilizer, for those of you who don't know) in school. For the first time. They f*cked themselves up really badly, had to go to hospital, etc. Morons :hmph:

hahaha
did they fall asleep?

 

[Pressure]

I s'pect they were hospitalized because they thought the mints were drugs, and took appropriate action. Hm.

Oh I thought they just ate too many mints. I didn't really read article that thoroughly. I was going to say they'd need to eat an ass load of mints to get hospitalised.

 

[Lemonking]

jeez **** Ohio
so gay some americans dont deserve to breath