Student uses hand sanitizer to set classmate on fire

[proud2BlibKansan]

SHAWNEE, KS (KCTV) -
A 12-year-old student is accused of a horrible crime against a classmate.

Shawnee Police Department Officer Bill Hisle said the 12-year-old boy filled his hand with hand sanitizer and lit it on fire.

The student threw the lit sanitizer on a 12-year-old student who suffered minor facial burns.

The 12-year-old student faces charges in juvenile court. The school nurse treated the burned student whose parents took the boy to the doctor. The injured student is back at school.

More . . . http://www.kctv5.com/story/22078004/shawnee-student-uses-hand-sanitzier-to-set-13-year-old-on-fire

[get the red out]

1. Hideous!

I hope the kid that did this get some serious psychiatric treatment.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

2. The violent are becoming ever younger... n/t

[The Straight Story]

3. Ban hand santizer, problem solved (nt)

[frazzled]

4. Very funny, but not very smart

If you're trying to make a point about guns.

Hand sanitizer has a primary use beyond harming people. You clean your hands with it.

Guns have only one use: to harm people (or animals). Yes, and target practice ... so that you can better harm people or animals.

Your analogy fails.

[The Straight Story]

5. Funny, was not even talking about guns but things like

pit bulls, smoking, pot, grills (climate change), abortion, soft drinks over a certain size, etc and so on.

We are a ban happy people for some reason. Something about controlling others we seem to love (except in one case).

[SheilaT]

6. Actually, what's wrong with washing hands with soap and water?

Hand sanitizer contains significant amounts of alcohol, which is why it could be set on fire. Plus, it doesn't do as good a job of cleaning - sanitizing - as old fashioned soap and water.

[pacalo]

9. I keep a bottle in my glove compartment so that I can wash my hands

before eating fastfood from the drive-through.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

14. Germs may be the least of your concern {nagging mode: OFF}

[pacalo]

18. ...

[tkmorris]

10. Absolutely NOTHING wrong with S&W, but

Hand sanitizer can be used when water is inconvenient or unavailable. I'm not sure it's necessary or desirable in a school setting, but it does have a function.

[Blue_Tires]

17. having been a substitute teacher at one time

I can say the sanitizer stuff is everywhere...School systems must buy that stuff by the oil drum...

Even if it reduces germ spread by only 5%, I'm well grateful for it...

[SheilaT]

21. I'm under the impression that it does not do as good

a job of reducing germs as people think. Soap and water is vastly better.

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. +1

[frylock]

20. cmon dude. get some new material..

you're better than this.

[reformist2]

11. On a related note, has anyone ever had an allergic reaction to hand sanitizer?

I swear, the stuff with something called "carbomer" (not just alcohol) made my hands break out in a rash.

[backscatter712]

12. Thankfully, the target only got minor burns.

It could have been much worse.

[Fla Dem]

13. Whatever would possess a 12 yo boy to do this?

Was this a stunt he saw on youtube? And if so, why would he ever think it was OK to set another kid on fire. I am beyond baffled at some of the stupid, dangerous and in some cases cruel things people are doing.

[cigsandcoffee]

15. Video Games. n/t

[aikoaiko]

16. That's terrible. I hope the victim heals well.

In Boy Scouts we made zip sticks. We'd melt burning plastic on sticks and then twirl them so that little blobs of burning plastic would zip through the aid and land on each other. Somehow we knew to keep it out of each others' faces. It hurt like hell when a burning blob of plastic stuck to your leg. I think I have a few scars left over.