El Paso dance team spikes rival's brownies

I'm with you girl. 3 day suspension is not enough. They are just enjoying the days off and surely do not feel like it is punishment. that's what's wrong with a lot of kids today, they ALWAYS JUST get a slap on the hand and never learn from anything. The juvenile detention centers need to be utilized a little more to teach these kids a lesson.

okay... first of all i want it to be clarified that it was a dance team and NOT the cheerleaders!

secondly, prison time?!? or juvenile detention... whatever... thats absolutely ridiculous if it was ONLY laxatives that were put in the brownies... i mean, really?! you really want them to serve jail time for that?!?! good lord... i get that there is TALK about them putting rat poison and bleach in them, but that has not been proven, nor has it been disproven either... BUT as we all know.. you are innocent until proven guilty! not the other way around... i think people are taking this way WAY to seriously...

you focus on this.. what about the senior - freshman initiation ((hazing)) ohhh no, the poor girls almost took laxatives... dear lord, if anything they were helping them lose a few pounds.... its nothing to freak out about... i can not believe this is an issue that is a TOP STORY on the aol welcome screen...

BEYOND RIDICULOUS!!

To Monet:

" But what if there was something else in there? What do you think should happen to these girls?"

The question was what should happen if it were more than laxatives added. Deep breath, dear.

I am an El Paso native and I resent anyone speaking badly about all of El Paso, shame on you! The rat poison and clorox are just rumors, so until they are proven guilty, stop making assumptions!!! The district is taking care of this matter, it doesn't happen overnight!

Only in Texas!!!! This reminds me of the cheerleaders mother in Harris county hiring a hit man to kill off the other cheerleader.

When do we start making people responsible for their actions.

this is dangerous and really speaks more about the core of people not caring about anyone else but themselves.

Wow, everyone is so quick to judge on rumors and speculation... When I was in High School we gave each other laxatives, and it was funny, and no, it wouldn't be funny IF there was bleach and rat poison in them, but I also know that those rumors are likely to spread very quickly in a high school setting... Odds are pretty good these girls are telling the truth and there were only laxatives in the brownies... Besides, if police had found bleach and rat poison in the brownies, don't you think the news would know that, being they would be facing charges of attempted man-slaughter... It's just a little silly when a prank gets out of hand... If you were deciding their fates with these votes, how would you feel about sending them to prison after you found out the rumors weren't even true?

P.S. - I've NEVER known anyone who ate something given to them by their rival school... Ya kinda expect it to be "tampered with"...

Did anybody notice the part where it said it was "rumored" to have bleach and rat poison?
That doesn't mean they did, maybe they really did put rat poison and bleach, but maybe they really did only put laxatives in the brownies.
Ya'll can't say o they need to be put in jail right away, because they don't know for sure if they really did.

WOW....I had no idea I would get so many replies to a comment....I said IF the rival team ate the brownies and they had been other things in there, what would have happened....and note to the "El Paso Native"....I never said anything bad about El Paso, or Texas, or any other state, I said if they put rat poison and bleach in there, it was a little sadistic....I also never said anything bad about cheerleaders! Read Monet, I WAS a cheerleader as well as being on the dance team, and it was also kind of rude to say they were "helping them lose a few pounds", jeez....Well, thanks to everyone who agreed with me that the little b****es need to be taught a lesson if it comes out that it was more then laxatives (helloooo, do you think they would really ADMIT to anything other then that, if they didn't have to right away?), and to all you ignorant people that think we are horrible for saying they need to be taught a lesson....well, I hope you never have to deal with your kids being on the rival team and eating the tainted brownies (because how do you KNOW they are from the rival team, we didn't when it happened to us!), laxative or otherwise....have a nice day.

If you read the article, it said that the school district IS having the brownies tested for anything more than just laxatives. If indeed there is something MORE THAN laxatives that could have caused bodily harm then the girls should definitely have charges filed.

After living in El Paso for 15 yrs.. (and so glad we moved) I am not suprised that these girls did such a thing.. there are so many self absorbed nasty people there.. be it laxitives or poison.. they put it in there intending to do some sort of damage.. and should actually pay some sort of consequence instead of getting a slap on the hand. Which happens a lot in el paso.. If they get off with this small punishment.. they will learn nothing and laugh that they basically got away with what could have possibly been something even more sinister, 3 days of suspention please!!! they will just be laughing it up at home for 3 days off from school.. People need to take more control over their kids and stop being afraid of them.

If this happened to me, I would file assault charges. These were high school students? I'm 23 and even as a high schooler I thought things like this were immature. I was by no means a party pooper, but knowingly allowing someone to ingest medication of any kind without their knowledge is wrong and should not go unpunished. 3 days suspension is nothing. Maybe a couple of months in IN school suspension. What if someone had been allergic to the laxative or something in it? What if they had a condition that the laxative affected. I'm one of the biggest pranksters I know, I'm the Nicole Richie of my clique if you will, but seriously; grow up girls.

I am from El Paso and the news reporters stated that the "Brownies" had been sent to a lab to determine the ingredients. As for punishment, I feel that these pranks are a little more dangerous these days than 20 years ago. Say one of these young ladies had IBS or even more realistic for the population of this town is a diabetic. Even the small amount of laxative used could cause some serious medical issues if ingested.
I feel that it is time to make young people respondible for their actions. They thought the prank out but did not think of what could possibly happen to the girls if any had health problems.
It will be interesting to see what happens when the lab results comes back. I pray for all that there was nothing more than the laxative, but if there was the girls should be punished more severly than a few days of suspension.
I hope all reading this understands how rat poisoning kills. It is not a pretty sight. I hope that each of you reading this can close your eyes and imagine how the parents of the girls receiving the tanted brownies must feel.

Wow Ravensong. What a mean thing to say. And IGNORANT to boot. There's lots more shows on TV than CSI that can give you ideas for pranks or something more serious.

Did you wake up on the wrong side of the web today or what? I'll bet you're the real fatass who sits around in her trailor stuffing her face with cheesesnacks all day long. Then you get all pissed off because you're fat so you come online to take it out on some unsuspecting poster. We have a name for people like you in the internet community. You are a TROLL.

Betty's post made sense to me and I would be inclined to agree that kids today do get too many bad ideas from TV programs.

DAMN Ravensong... you didnt' read it well did ya? lol I never said anything about high school girls or sitting around watching tv allday... just that over the kids lives they've seen so many rapes, murders, violence... no wonder it is so easy for kids to go that violent. it's not a good influence... and i am no dope... but you sounded a bit like a dope-head? lol been smoking to much?