A teacher is in hot water for misleading a schoolgirl into eating cockroach poison-laced “cookies.”
The incident began in an Osaka high school, when a 53-year-old teacher was asked by a female pupil what the “dumplings” placed on the staffroom floor were.
The teacher jokingly responded that they were “teacher’s special cookies” and then turned her attention elsewhere.
The pupil spotted more of the “cookies” on a desk and promptly proceeded to munch one, saying it was “nasty.”
They were in fact “dumplings” made with flour and boric acid for the purpose of killing cockroaches.
The pupil was immediately taken to hospital where her stomach was pumped. She is said to be recuperating.
The principal explained why his school was infested with cockroaches:
“With the summer heat the cockroaches had become abnormally active, so a teacher bought some boric acid from a pharmacist and made dumplings from them.”
The principal errs on the side of caution and blames the teacher:
“It might have worked as joke in a previous era, but now many students don’t know about these boric acid cakes. I’ve warned the teacher about her careless remarks.”
Boric acid is commonly used as a relatively safe insecticide – it is however still considered highly toxic and is fatal to humans in large doses. Small doses cause vomiting and diarrhoea, with the possibility of a variety of unpleasant long-term effects.
Only eat random food, after its packaged sealed, and stolen properly from your local retailer.
Chances of you getting sick 1/100000000 packages but its always a chance of bad things other then jail.
Worse thing that can happen;
Your taken to jail, make sure you drop a vomit/loaf in the car on your way to jail processing.
Im not entirely certain but i think i remember these ” teacher cookies ” beeing featured in Urusei Yatsura . A scene between Ataru and his teacher if memory serves .
Boric acid’s in mammal’s LD50 is 2660mg/kg orally… which means that in a group of schoolgirls weighing 55 kg’s fed with 146 grams of pure boric acid, half would die (that’s 5 ounces for 120 pounds.) Not extremely poisonous, considering the same amount of table salt would at least make you very sick.
That’s one stupid high school girl to be eating things off the floor.
If it was a kindergarten or grade school I can see this being a problem as little kids will try and eat almost anything.
Maybe they should have spent the cash for some of these as there would be no confusion then plus it’s enclosed in plastic and does not look like food.
http://www.killsbugsdead.com/fop_dc_lrb.asp
japan is sooo stupid! why make poison that looks like taste human food! cocoroaches dont know or care if the food looks taste so why make it pretty! thats just asking for something stupid like that to happen!