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All Up In Your Grill
http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2007/5/4/245634.html
Two Palm Harbor University High School students were arrested Thursday for allegedly replacing a vending machine bottle of apple juice with urine.
The students, both 15-year-old ninth-graders, are accused of tampering with the beverage that was later sold in the vending machine. According to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, the suspects removed a bottle of apple juice from a Pepsi vending machine on the school's campus on April 9 without paying for it.
"The vendor went right up and showed us how kids get arms up into them and product out of them," said Pinellas County Superintendent of Schools Clayton Wilcox. "This is something that could have been prevented and I'm really quite anxious about why it wasn't dealt with before this."
The sheriff's office says after obtaining the bottle, the suspects emptied it, refilled it with their urine and placed the bottle back in the vending machine. Authorities said the duo then watched to see if anyone purchased the beverage. When no one did, they left the area and the bottle in the machine.
A student later purchased the bottle and drank from it as he rode home on the school bus. After noticing the taste and foul odor, he told his parents, who contacted the sheriff's office. The bottle was turned over as evidence and tests later proved it was urine.
The school's resource officer received tips that directed attention to the suspects, who later admitted their involvement. Both teenagers were charged with one count of poisoning food or water with intent to injure or cause bodily harm.
Wilcox has asked Pepsi to remove all of those type vending machines from all Pinellas County campuses by the end of the weekend.
"If the potential is there to harm our kids, we're going to have them removed," Wilcox said.
Two Palm Harbor University High School students were arrested Thursday for allegedly replacing a vending machine bottle of apple juice with urine.
The students, both 15-year-old ninth-graders, are accused of tampering with the beverage that was later sold in the vending machine. According to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, the suspects removed a bottle of apple juice from a Pepsi vending machine on the school's campus on April 9 without paying for it.
"The vendor went right up and showed us how kids get arms up into them and product out of them," said Pinellas County Superintendent of Schools Clayton Wilcox. "This is something that could have been prevented and I'm really quite anxious about why it wasn't dealt with before this."
The sheriff's office says after obtaining the bottle, the suspects emptied it, refilled it with their urine and placed the bottle back in the vending machine. Authorities said the duo then watched to see if anyone purchased the beverage. When no one did, they left the area and the bottle in the machine.
A student later purchased the bottle and drank from it as he rode home on the school bus. After noticing the taste and foul odor, he told his parents, who contacted the sheriff's office. The bottle was turned over as evidence and tests later proved it was urine.
The school's resource officer received tips that directed attention to the suspects, who later admitted their involvement. Both teenagers were charged with one count of poisoning food or water with intent to injure or cause bodily harm.
Wilcox has asked Pepsi to remove all of those type vending machines from all Pinellas County campuses by the end of the weekend.
"If the potential is there to harm our kids, we're going to have them removed," Wilcox said.
I wonder why/how the student didn't realize the bottle had been opened already :shrug:
