Teen Sentenced to Clean Up Puke for Vomiting on Teacher

[Mabus]

:puke: I saw this on the news last night. The sentence fits the crime. I bet this is the last time the kid does anything like this. According to the news last night he has to clean any police car in Johnson County when they call him.

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) -- A high school student convicted of vomiting on his Spanish teacher has been ordered to spend the next four months cleaning up anytime someone throws up in a police car.

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During the last day of classes at Olathe Northwest High School, the teen vomited on Spanish teacher David Young as he turned in his textbook.

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But two other students testified that the teen said he threw up intentionally. One girl said the teen had told her in advance that he planned to throw up on Young on the last day of school. The girl wasn't in class when the teen threw up, but she testified that when she saw the boy later he told her, "You missed it. I did it." http://kctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3645496

[Missy M]

1. Great and I hope the student gets some real winners to clean up...

because he deserves it. His act was disgusting!!!

[Mabus]

2. He will

Johnson County = Lenexa, Olathe, Leawood, Mission Hills, Mission, Prairie Village, Roeland Park and is next to KCK/KCMO. Lots of students, lots of people, lots of parties. Believe me, the kid will be busy.

[Missy M]

3. I only hope they follow through with the punishment and don't let it go...

by the wayside.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. I am glad you posted this

What a stupid thing for this kid to do.

[Mabus]

5. If it had been an Intelligent Design teacher

I guess I would still think it bad thing.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Yes even then

We just can't have kids puking on teachers. :)

[Mabus]

7. But Poppy Bush threw up on the Japanese PM

and was forgiven. Then again, that wasn't planned. Or was it?

Either way, I have to agree vomiting on someone you don't like isn't a good thing. I guess I heard it put best "God says 'no.'"

[put out]

8. What about school nurses?

Fair game, it seems. heh

Student: (enters office, big eyes, looks the color of oatmeal) "I don't feel good."

Nurse: (putting hair into ponytail, grabbing gloves, moving away, concerned look) "Are you going to puke? Do you know what it means?"

Student: (still walking) ralph, splatter, urp, argh, ralph.

Nurse: Quit walking! Stop, here's a trashcan! Don't talk, it's OK, it's OK. (dances around puke, skids in puke)

When kids have a puke accident, it's bad enough, and worse than that when it gets all over the place. When a little shit like the student in the story forces it onto a teacher with whom he has a beef, he can surely come to my school at my request. I have lots of body stuff he can help with. I'll have all sorts of educational bathroom accidents for him to share.

Won't it be fun, that he has a (lenient, my opinion) curfew, but will be called out of bed to go clean up a police vehicle. I hope he gets special stuff. Distraught drunks tend to leave all manner of presents.

[hfojvt]

9. who cleans it up then, the nurse, a janitor, or both?

I find it a little bit disturbing that someone is sentenced to do my job, or at least part of my job, as punishment. Does that mean I am being punished by society, God, or karma? Does that mean I should get more money? (actually, now I am getting more money than many about 205% of minimum wage, but I once did not get as much, nor do many of my fellow janitorial workers.)

[Mabus]

10. I'd wager

you do other things than clean puke all day. I'd even bet there more than a few days when you didn't have to deal with puke everyday (unless you work at a school with practicing bulimics).

Nah, you're not being punished. You get paid for your job, all aspects of it, not just cleaning puke. If you're lucky you also get benefits. You also aren't on-call to clean up puke for all of Johnson County law enforcement officers 24/7 for four months. Talk about Summer in the City.


:loveya:

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. On channel 9 news just now

They said the cops are not sure how to contact this kid if they need his puke cleaning services. WTF? He has no phone?

[Mabus]

13. I'd just take the cars to his house

and honk the horn until he got busy cleaning. There has to be a way to contact him. Jeez, maybe they should go back to court and slap a ankle bracelet on him so he'll be easy to locate.

[hfojvt]

12. I cleaned a sports bar every day (almost)

for about a year without ever seeing it once. Then we got a new manager, and two Saturdays in a row somebody blew chunks in the mens bathroom. I was thinking "I really need to negotiate my contract so I get a $20 bonus when I have to clean this up" but no, it was the same $5.5 an hour and no bennies.

But I found that factory bathrooms were worse than the bar's on most days. Surprising. Also, I talked to somebody who did janitorial work at a chicken factory. So, no, I have not seen the worst. But it is like Suzie said to Calvin (when he said "you'd think the guy eating the worms would call the shots.") "Usually, if you can call any shots at all, you are not eating worms."

[put out]

14. Both of us. I didn't mean to disrespect you.

Our custodians are some of the best folks I know. I consider them to be my colleagues. They help everyone, they know first aid and CPR, they are allies in keeping people safe, they are first responders in an emergency situation, they keep our building and our grounds in good repair. We just grit our teeth and get our jobs done when it comes to bathroom-type incidents.

Just this: when a student purposefully makes a bad and nasty mess at another's expense, that student needs to do some cleaning. Just my opinion about it.

[Mabus]

15. I agree

I know a lot of custodians. I worked at KU as a courier for a while. My job took me to buildings all over campus and one of the groups of people that I made a lot of friends with were custodians. Along with secretaries, the people to know are custodians. They know what's going on. They don't have easy jobs. They're expected to do a lot more than their jobs require and are rarely thanked when they go above and beyond their duties. They have to come up with creative McGyver-like solutions on the spur of the moment. They are never thanked when they're doing their job because no one notices it. People only notice when a custodian doesn't do a good job. They are definitely underappreciated. And, maybe it's just me but most custodians I know are pretty laid back people with great senses of humor and pretty good judges of character.

[hfojvt]

16. Not you, it was more like the judge

seeming to say that janitorial work was punishment. I sorta saw the same thing on TV, on the show NCIS the boss makes one of his agents clean up an interrogation room (because he made some smart remark). So it just seemed to be a common theme that janitorial type work is some kind of punishment.

I can see the consideration thing - if people knew what the cleaning crew had to deal with, they might not be so messy. However, it does not take alot of experience to know that puke is pretty nasty. Anyway, I do not suppose any of the staff minds having someone else do it.