Tuesday, September 18, 2007 , Updated 11:51 a.m., September 19, 2007
UPDATE: Police investigate potential food tampering at Plano’s Shepton High School
Police are investigating a possible case of food tampering at Shepton High School in Plano after a student became ill. As a result, school officials have removed all commercial food items that could potentially be tampered with. The big stink so far, as far as food items being removed, are the drinks. In a letter sent home to Shepton High parents, Principal Burton D. Smith writes that "some students during the last scheduled lunch service today had to make alternative choices for drink selection."
As part of the enforcement on Monday to prevent ruthless students from obtaining these drinks of death, as one student put it, "there was a big teacher standing in front of the drinks and a couple of us asked her if we could, like, get some drinks, and she said no." No word yet on whether any students yelled "Attica, Attica" or, furthermore, that they would know what the heck that even means. It seems the "big teacher" won this battle.
UPDATE: On Friday, Sept. 14, the school liaison officer assigned to Shepton High School located at 5505 West Plano Parkway received a delayed report of suspicious circumstances surrounding the illness of a student on Monday, Sept. 10.
The Plano Police were advised that a 14-year-old male student consumed a bottled beverage from a refrigerated unit in the Shepton High School cafeteria. The student became ill and sought treatment at a local area hospital.
Investigators from the Plano Police Department were contacted to determine the circumstances that caused the student to become ill. A sample of the same brand bottled beverage stored in the refrigerated unit has been sent to a local area laboratory for testing and all similar food products have been removed from the school.
Additional information will be made available depending on the results from the laboratory tests. The investigation is currently ongoing.
Posted by Erin/UPDATE: Source: Plano Police Department
Collin Gouldin, says:
ya, i heard that someone up a date rape drug in boys vitamin water. When he came back to school (After going to the hospital), the counselors had changed his whole schedule so that he wasn't in any of the classes with the same people.
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Pavel Lishin, says:
I am very confused as to what actually happened.
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Scott Doyle, says:
Oh yeah? Well I heard they were gonna either abort whatever fetuses resulted from the date rape or donate them to SCIENCE!
Apparently if someone gets sick it's clearly some jerk kid tampering with food. There could not be any other possible explanation.
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MonicaJay, says:
I used to go there. What happened was someone slipped a GHB pill into a Vitamin Water during breakfast. Someone bought it during lunch and had to go to the hospital.
What I don't understand is why kids don't look to see if a bottle has been opened before they drink from it. That's why they have the tamper-evident caps.
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