EL PASO, Texas, Nov. 12 (UPI) — Parents of students on the dance team at a Texas high school allege members of a rival team prepared a gift of baked goods laced with rat poison and bleach.
Exchanging gifts and pranks is a tradition among Texas high school dance and cheerleading teams before football games. But the parents from Andress High School in El Paso said putting poison and laxatives in brownies and cupcakes and giving them to unwitting rivals is well beyond a prank.
Bea Saenz, whose daughter is on the Andress dance team, told the El Paso Times she wants the students from the school’s cross-town rival, Chapin, to face criminal charges.
“We felt like they weren’t out just to play a prank,” she said. “With all the stuff they put in there, it is like they were trying to kill them.”
The baked goods were confiscated before any harm was done.
Chapin officials released a statement saying the incident is being investigated and any students found to be involved will face appropriate discipline. A police spokesman said no reports had been made yet.
Appropriate discipline…..you mean like attempted murder? Or will they just be kicked off the squad…sheesh.
that is what happens will you try to turn cheerleadering and dance in to a sport.
Thats what you get with IDIOT KIDS, that can only cheer…ANd dont think..
would like a list of things they PUT in the food.
RAT POISON??
thats STUPID..
This dispute can easily be resolved by a topless wrestling competition between the rival cheerleaders.
These chicks from Texas are so fat I’m surprised they can keep them from grazing on the field.
Did the school/squad put the baked goods through a chemical analysis test as soon as they received the package? How did they find out that the gift was laced like this? Were they tipped off first? WTF?!? is right, this makes no sense.
Too buys skipping science class to screw to know that rat poison can kill.
Oh wait, this is Texas. No science classes down there. Just bible studies.
What I want to know is, do rat poison and laxative, complement each other?
Maybe being in band, I was too far removed from the cheerleader/drill team side of things, but I don’t recall this being a tradition here in good ole Tejas, and what did they do, have the baked goods analysed for the poison and laxatives before eating them?Ho would they know there was anything wrong with them without any of them trying them and getting sick? Or did one of the floosies from the rival team forget to take the poison an laxative boxes out of the bag?
Aaah – the Real America.
Good thing they didn’t do anything really serious; like draw a picture of a gun or something.
You Americans. So fun loving.
They should make an example out of them and make THEM eat those muffins! There, eat that, you won’t be poisoning anyone for a while.
I think there would be a lot less poisonings, if the sentence for poisoning was poisoning by what you poisoned with.
This is the crap disney teaches with stuff like high school musical. Competitivity taken to an anticipatable extreme. Might be a good idea to teach the kids that losing is not a fate worse than death. Being ambitious/competitive is a good thing, but like with all the good things, taken to extremes it becomes toxic.
#6 Personality:
“Oh wait, this is Texas. No science classes down there. Just bible studies.”
Yeah, all the people who don’t live on the coast completely reject science.
“Too buys skipping science class to screw to know that rat poison can kill.”
lol wut? You’re so smart!
Dont worry…Just some secular public high school kids practicing Evolution, and trying to gain a leg up. Here I just read it in an article… Quote
” Chakrabarti, an associate research scholar in the Department of Chemistry at Princeton. “Our new theory extends Darwin’s model, demonstrating how organisms can subtly direct aspects of their own evolution to create order out of randomness.””
Why get on the kids for practicing that which comes naturally??
(Tongue firmly in cheek)
I lived in El Paso and had cousins and dated a girl that went to Andress High School.
I am kind of confused on Special Ed’s comment concerning their weight. It was a million years ago, but from what I remember, the cheerleaders were anything but fat.
Maybe just a random insult to relieve some frustration?
There was one incident where the cheerleaders from my high school were caught drinking themselves in to oblivion and nothing was really done as a punishment, so I don’t expect much here either.
Yeah, give the offenders the opportunity to eat their own goods…and see how fast of a confession they freely give. And then, a 30 day stint in the county jail with the other misguided scholars of society. “Attempted Murder” is not out of the question either.
Even though what they did was horrible, don’t expect much to happen. Diff rules apply to the cheerleaders/dance team girls, as bad as that sounds. Their lawyers will come up with some way to explain that it wasn’t done on purpose. A cheerleader at my school didn’t get kicked off the squad for drinking even after being arrested multiple times. Face it, the rules are always gonna bend for the cheerleaders/dance team girls.
Wow I am on a high school drill team and to the person who said “that is what happens will you try to turn cheerleadering and dance in to a sport.” Should maybe try to attampet the things we do, this incident has NOTHING to do with cheer and drill being sports. Also, to the person who said “Oh wait, this is Texas. No science classes down there. Just bible studies.” Ignorant people like you make me sick, I live in Central Texas and I am a PHYSICS MAJOR in college and a member of the drill team, and I do not believe in any god. Take your ignorance and stereotyping and shove it.