The Pepper-Spray Story

This story got brought up by my regional news (HR, for Hessen).

The cops will tell you that they ever have this type of problem.

Today (Friday), cops got called out to a Hessen school in the Limburg-Weilburg (NW of where I live).  Local school had this episode around 9:30 in the morning.....tear-gas.

The ambulance crew had to react as well....saying around sixty kids and teachers....kids mostly twelve to sixteen....were injured in some way from the gas attack (pepper-spray).  All of this revolves around two seventh-grade boys.

School was terminated for the rest of the day, and likely resumes on Monday.  I have my doubts that the two boys in this episode will be there. Journalists didn't say much but I would take a guess that they will be suspended for at least a week.

Then cops noted....this was the 3rd episode in two weeks.  In one of these episodes (over at Kassel), it was a 15-year old kid and they are checking the legal rules if they can financially charge the response by the cops and ambulance crews to the kid and his family. In this case, they noted 18 rescue vehicles, three ambulances, and a rescue helicopter.  I would take a humble guess....with the chopper alone....it'll add up to four-thousand Euro minimum.  For the parents, there's going to be a bit of shock if the judge does hand the bill over.

This episode in Limburg?  No one say much if the bill for the cops and ambulances will be tossed at the two punks.  All of this revolves around an increased amount of pepper-spray now on the open-market.  On any given day within Wiesbaden and Mainz....I could stop by ten different shops and buy the stuff.  I could also go via Amazon and have it delivered to the house.  There's probably five-percent of the 'teenies' out there....carrying the stuff now in their back-packs.