It gets WORSE:

[docwebster]

(snagged from kansas_dave)


NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Louisiana police Wednesday were testing Jell-O
snacks brought to school by an 8-year-old, which officials said resembled a
popular tavern drink.

The Terrytown girl was suspended from her elementary school for nine days under the school's drug policy, Jefferson Parish public schools spokesman Jeff Nowakowski told the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

He said the snacks resembled an alcohol mixture known as "Jell-O shots," and
whether or not they actually contained alcohol, the youngster violated the drug policy banning "look-alike" drugs and intending to distribute them.

The girl's mother told television interviews there was no alcohol in the 30
Jell-O snacks she prepared for her daughter to sell to schoolmates to raise
money for Christmas presents.

The girl will have to undergo a drug assessment program, counseling and drug
testing before she can come back to school, Nowakowski said.

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IT'S JELLO, YOU GIBBERING FUCKING FOOLS! Jesus, fuck and Liberace this is beyond pathetic!

Comments

[bfly.livejournal.com]

What in blue blazes is the matter with these people?

Good god!

[rubber-shirt.livejournal.com]

What's next are they going to bust people with M&M's cuz they look like pills??

Re: Good god!

[ex-flexible.livejournal.com]

Heh. There's a candy that's popular with the kids here in Tucson. It's basically dried tamarind pulp. Comes in a plastic wrapper. Isn't too bad, either... kind of tangy.

Glad that kid in LA didn't bring tamarindo to school. These asshats would probably have thought it looked too much like Mexican Brown heroin.

[madsqueeble.livejournal.com]

Off topic a bit, but there's been a great hoo-ha over here trying to ban konjac-based jelly sweets because a 3-year-old girl choked on one. _While she was riding her bike._ @_@

They say konjac is insoluble, which is funny if konjac = konnyaku. The last time I made instant konnyaku jelly, it had melted partially by the time I got it to school.

[dreamline.livejournal.com]

Jesus fucking christ!!!! Fucking ridiculous!

Actually...

[eleri.livejournal.com]

I think the mom needs smacked upside with a clue by four. Not only did she make little, unlabled cups of jello (Something that, because she's a bartender, could easily be questioned as alcoholic. Go ahead, tell me no adult would ever do that.), she sent her 8 year kid to school to play dealer to her classmates, without talking to the school, or even her kids teacher! What the hell message does that send to her kid? "Gee honey, we need some extra money, why don't you go sell something to your friends."

Re: Actually...

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

The sending the kid to sell stuff is the only real problem I can see, but a big one.

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

Damn. I think I lost iq points just reading that. Look-alike drugs...yeah. If your eight year old knows what jello shots look like, there may be other problems. Feh. Just...feh.

Gessi

[pagawne.livejournal.com]

God in Heaven, help us all. The entire country has gone completely mad.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Good thing she didn't bring brownies to the bake sale.

[kittenpants.livejournal.com]

Has this school banned Mike & Ikes? Tart'n'Tinys? Those look an awful lot like pills, missy! That may be a Barq's, but BEER comes in aluminum cans too, young man. How about stickers, stamps, and temporary tattoos? Little acidhead wannabes, all of 'em. For that matter, PAPER?

For fuck's sake.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Well, since the mother *is* a bartender, the little girl told the school officials that her mom sometimes *does* make (alcoholic) Jell-O shots for sale at her workplace, and the mother apparently *told her daughter* to sell them at school without warning the school, I can see where the school *might* jump to conclusions. Link to first in series of articles (http://www.theneworleanschannel.com/news/3977639/detail.html)

They did say the shots tested positive for traces of alcohol, but it's unclear whether that was because they fermented as unrefrigerated jello, or the cups were not cleaned properly, or what... I don't think this story is quite over yet.

[we2rstardust.livejournal.com]

you do realize that conservatives are the ones fighting the war on drugs, not liberals, right?

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

That doesn't really matter one way or the other. It. Was. JELLO.

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

I mean, let's get a little sense of proportion, here. Bah.