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Filed under: Teens & tweens, In the news, Playground bureauIt seemed like a nice gesture: three seniors at Cobble Hill school in Brooklyn baked a cake and brought it in to share with their teachers. Unfortunately, the cake was laced with laxatives and two teachers wound up in the hospital; now the three students are in police custody, facing charges of assault.The 17-year-old students have also been suspended from school and banned from their graduation ceremony. One is a straight-A cheerleader, and none are the kind of kids that are usually tagged as troublemakers."I was very close to these students and I'm very sad," said one victim, a school social worker who spoke on condition of anonymity. "It's very hard when you give so much of your heart and soul to your kids and someone hurts you like that."Teacher Danilo Dungca said that he took one bite of the cake and immediately knew something was wrong. "It tasted like someone sprayed hairspray in my mouth. I spit it out," he said. "That's when my lips and my tongue went numb." Dungca went directly to the emergency room. Another teacher, Tom Mancuso, wound up in the ER later that same day, complaining of breathing problems that doctors told him were consistent with insecticide poisoning. Three other staff members reported feeling ill after eating the cake.What is most disturbing about this story is the reaction of students at the high school. "Nobody's died from a laxative," said one student who is a friend of one of the pranksters. "He thought it was funny. I thought it was funny, too." Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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