Let me paint a picture for you…
It’s the season finale of ER. There’s snow on the ground and things are getting hectic. One of the nurses picks up the phone. It’s an emergency - the ambulance is coming in hot. Everyone hauls ass to get to the door, a stretcher is prepped to carry the patient into the OR. The ambulance backs in, it’s doors are opened and there’s a teacher’s aide strapped to the gurney shaking uncontrollably.
What the hell could cause all this mayhem? I’ll tell you - felony assault. But not just your every day assault. We’re talking felony assault … with pot brownies.
That’s right. In Manlius, NY two high school students face drug charges because one of them shared a weed-laced brownie with a teacher’s aide. After realizing the brownie contained some green leaf, the assualted teacher’s aide was rushed to the hospital.
Corrine Prigle, 17, was charged with felony assault and misdemeanor drug charges. The guy that sold the brownies to her, Zebediah Gallagher, 16, also faces a felony count - criminal sale of marijuana. It’s pretty amazing that something of this nature has the ability to ruin two kids’ lives. I know that 16 and 17 is a little young to be messing with the ganja, and bringing it to school obviously isn’t the smartest thing, but charging them with felony assault and felony distribution? Seriously?
[via Newsvine]