Teen gets 15 days for toxic mixture at Vancouver school
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) - A Vancouver, Wash., high school freshman whose idea of a joke was to bring a toxic chemical mixture to school has been sentenced to 15 days in juvenile detention.
Nine people were treated at a hospital for respiratory distress after breathing the fumes on Jan. 24 at Skyview High School.
The Columbian reports that the 14-year-old mixed bleach and ammonia in a container at home and brought it to school. The Clark County sheriff's office says he asked two students to inhale the mix. One of them pushed the container away, causing it to spill on a third student. Others were exposed to the fumes.
Deputy Prosecutor Rick Olson says it was supposed to be a joke.
The boy pleaded guilty Friday to third-degree assault and reckless endangerment. He got another seven days in detention after pleading guilty to selling marijuana in a separate case. He must complete 64 hours of community service.
Nine people were treated at a hospital for respiratory distress after breathing the fumes on Jan. 24 at Skyview High School.
The Columbian reports that the 14-year-old mixed bleach and ammonia in a container at home and brought it to school. The Clark County sheriff's office says he asked two students to inhale the mix. One of them pushed the container away, causing it to spill on a third student. Others were exposed to the fumes.
Deputy Prosecutor Rick Olson says it was supposed to be a joke.
The boy pleaded guilty Friday to third-degree assault and reckless endangerment. He got another seven days in detention after pleading guilty to selling marijuana in a separate case. He must complete 64 hours of community service.
Well at least most of the addage of 'boys will be boys' wasn't applied here. Though I am not sure if I were a parent with kids at that school, I'd want him back for the rest of the year. Bleach and ammonia by themselves are toxic, this teen has a sadistic streak and a lack of respect and boundaries for others.
Brings new meaning to Pete Townshend's words, "Teenage wasteland. They're all wasted!"
@Zoso LOL, not all of them just enough of them. I was never wasted as a teen ;-)
This is your brain on drugs.
Our youth is just getting stupider and stupider.
 @Tattooed_Angel "Stupider" is not a word. Just saying...
@ValleyBronco     http://www.thefreedictionary.com/stupider
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I rest my case.
Home Simpson must be proud of Bart.
Wow, 15 days in juvenile detention thats the real joke here....
That would be chloramine gas....VERY deadly. At least we know he learned something from chemistry class....
 @Jalharad Yep, just enough to be dangerous.
 @Jalharad A+ for you. Most would have guessed it to be Chlorine gas. Depending on the ratios it could also have been Chlorine and or hydrazine. Hydrazine can be explosive.
Sounds like an all-around stupid kid. He's lucky those people didn't suffer permanent damage to their lungs.
What an idiot. That mixture can be fatal. Â I doubt it was a joke. Any fool can look that up on the internet and know that it can be fatal.Â
 @DTÂ
Since he is in a public school I doubt he knows the internet is good for anything other than porn and video games.
 @Alex Clayton  @DT It is quite scarey what can be found on the internet. My teens have told me of many 'fads' going around that their peers have looked up and passed on ... from making drugs, to making bombs and everything in between.
 @Alex Clayton  @DT Ha! I have to say, there are many times I WISH my boys would just go play video games! Too true.
 @Thunder  @DTÂ
Yep, I have to guess that video games is the only reason teenage boys are not in short supply these days. I often look back and am surprised I got out of those years with all my fingers. Now days with all the "info" on the net if they were not busy with video games they would have quite a time.
@DT Or he's just an effing idiot.