Prosecutors wash hands of hand gel case

Only in BushAmerica can a 7th grader almost go to juvy for daring to think hand sanitizer smells nice.

In Lewisville, Texas, a middle school student almost found his life in shambles all because of a harmless stunt he pulled in class. When he noticed his teacher had a container of hand-cleaning gel on her desk, he did what any other 7th grader would do: He grabbed the hand gel, smeared it on his hands, and took a big whiff because it smelled so nifty!

Who hasn't done something similar when they were in school?

This uproarious crowd pleaser netted the student a delinquency charge by local right-wing prosecutors. Why? Because they insisted the hand gel was a harmful inhalant and that he was huffing it to get high.

Well, according to the system, everyone is trying to get high. Prosecutors and educrats think there's a doper hiding under every bed. And anyone who proves they're not high and aren't trying to get high is called a "dry druggie." The War on Drugs is a War on People, and is used as an excuse to go after anyone who steps out of line.

The student in this case got good grades and didn't have a record of bad behavior. But now he's been stigmatized as a drug abuser all because of this episode. He also received an in-school suspension and was fingerprinted by police.

But now prosecutors have dropped the charges after finally realizing that hand sanitizer is not classified as a toxic inhalant under the state health and safety code. Well, no shit, Sherlock Hemlock! If it was classified as one, it wouldn't be sold legally for people to clean their hands! There's a risk from swallowing it, but not from smelling it. While the youngster was charged with inhaling the hand gel to "induce a condition of intoxication, hallucination and elation", somebody must have been hallucinating if they actually think they saw him huffing a dangerous inhalant.

If people are worried about inhaling poisonous fumes at school, then there's a lot of kids who should have plugged their asses when I was in school - because they sure filled the room with their own toxic inhalants!

Smelling hand gel has to be a lot less dangerous than licking tracing paper to enjoy the soap taste, like what some kid in my 5th grade class did. They didn't call the cops on him. Nowadays they would, seeing how it's BushAmerica and all.

(Source: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-cleanhands_26met.ART.North.Edition1.37549ff.html)