Current Events > Texas mom arrested because her kids bully stole her drink and drank it

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You're making the assumption that this kid would have poisoned his bully with or without mom, but the story really makes it sound like it was her idea. And the best case scenario would be not doing this at all, lol

That said, yes, obviously? Are you arguing that there's no difference whatsoever between the bully taking it by force and being freely given it? Because if not, what I said was "I'm less inclined to side as unequivocally with the arrested mother and bullied kid", which is about as minor an opinion shift as I can manage. Personally, my advice would've been to throatpunch the bully the next time they tried to pull something, or to pull the old Bobby Hill, even though I acknowledge I'd be surrending some of the moral high ground in doing so.

Under Texas law, tampering with a consumer product is a serious offense. Texas Penal Code 22.09 outlines that knowingly or intentionally tampering with a consumer product, which includes food, in a way that could harm someone, is illegal. The law is designed to protect consumers from harm and applies regardless of the tamperer's intentions, including attempts to deter theft or bullying

The law is designed to protect consumers from harm and applies regardless of the tamperer's intentions, including attempts to deter theft or bullying

So there wasn't a smart and mature way of dealing with this. Seems like the kid going to get bully further out of this.

What I would not do is retaliate against the bullies.

Something about the bully having to be in the process of bullying to get hurt here (as in if he didn't predictably bully that kid one last time he wouldn't have stole the drink and gotten sick) should like... Disqualify him from having a case against anyone

a consumer product

I don't think it really does. Just because the shitstain child isn't in bullying mode 24/7 doesn't mitigate the fact that they likely bullied the victim a day or 2 sooner. Does a domestic abuser stop being a domestic abuser because they're not spending every waking moment beating their victim? Of course not.

And similarly, if a domestic abuse victim willingly served her abuser a drink that had laxative in it, I wouldn't think it would be any different than if he took breaks in-between beating her to take swigs from the altered drink.

A shitty person doesn't stop being a shitty person just because they're not shitty every since waking moment of their life. They are still who they are, and this sack of shit bully is a sack of shit bully.

Good mom

So I'm not clear. Was the bully tricked into drinking this or not?

It's not tampering because the kid didn't offer it to the bully. The bully willingly chose to drink something they knew wasn't theirs. Tampering implies the kid offered it.

The mom admitted to police she told the kid to give it to the bully, so it sounds like the kid did offer it.

using ai for everything isn't great, the contents of your kid's thermos isn't a consumer product

Eh, even if that's true it wasn't ever intended for resale or any consumer/business reason... even with the extended uses listed I don't think it fits

Reports suggest they put it in an actual sports drink bottle and mixed it with some real Gatorade in order to present it as a legitimate sports drink, which actually would fall under tampering with a consumer product

so if you put some lemon juice in a regular water bottle is that considered tampering with a consumer product?

If only bullying vicitms were allowed to handle their bullies without repercussion...

But you know, a school system that cared would probably do something to stop bullying in the fucking first place!

Good mom

Are you reading a different article than the one here?

I really don't think it was just given to the kid, the way it was written seems more like they should have said "he ingested it during gym", the plan is never to give a drink to the person stealing yours, that proves and changes nothing.

You are writing a lot more backstory than the article gives.

The 10-year-old told authorities that his mother, identified as Rossi, made the drink, which consisted of lemon juice, salt, vinegar and Gatorade, according to the affidavit.

Rossi told deputies and the schools principal that she made the drink, gave it to her son, and directed him to give it to the classmate, the affidavit states.

but did she tell her son to offer it to the bully freely, or only when he tried to take it?

when/if this goes to court we're gonna need a 2nd topic

When I was at school, one kid always used to steal this other kids lucozade and drink it in front of him. One day we spiked it with laxatives and the bully shit himself during PE.

Did the kid steal other people's drinks after that?

No. Nor did he really give anybody any shit, as his status within the school had been forever changed to the boy who shit himself in year 10.

Huh.

While technically illegal, it sure sounds like he learned his lesson.

No. Nor did he really give anybody any shit, as his status within the school had been forever changed to the boy who shit himself in year 10.

Do laxatives actually give you like, such a strong urge to poo you just shit yourself?

I thought you'd generally still have time to get to the bathroom... But I guess during PE all that exertion might make it impossible to do anything to prevent said pant shitting