3rd grader suspended after crushing, sniffing Smarties candy

[The Straight Story]

COVINGTON, Ga. -- It's an ongoing trend that has parents and teachers baffled: kids crushing Smarties candies into powder and sniffing it.

Nine-year-old Demitri Santiago was recently suspended from Porterdale Elementary School in Newton County. His mother, Chelsi Lewis, said she received a phone call saying her son had been seen sniffing the candy powder.

"I said, 'What? Where could he have gotten this from?'" Lewis recalls of the phone call last Thursday.

"He told me he had witnessed a student in class, he had actually watched her. He'd watched her crush it up and inhale it," Lewis said. "I said, what made you so curious about it? And he said her reaction was like, wooo!"

Monday afternoon, Lewis said her son came home with a note stating he had been suspended for two days. The reason listed was possession of banned objects.

http://www.11alive.com/news/article/313424/40/3rd-grader-suspended-after-crushing-sniffing-Smarties-candy

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. He was then immediately elected Mayor of Toronto. nt

[Orrex]

2. Magnificent!

It's very rare that I literally LOL, but you got me.


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[loli phabay]

10. effin a, i did the exact same thing, that was a classic

[Dr. Strange]

3. Damn you.

Who's gonna pay for that coffee that just squirted out my nose due to my paroxysm of laughter?

As a side note, any chance that a certain Canadian rapper might be available to fill in for Ford?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. Chuggo is in the pocket of the Lakeshore Stranglers, just to let you know.

I actually mean that literally.

He's quite a short guy.

[FarCenter]

9. They're made in Canada; it may be how the Mayor got his start; it's a slippery slope.

http://www.spanglercandy.com/candy-store/smarties-rolls/smarties-candy-rolls-5lb

[giftedgirl77]

4. 3d grade? Cheeeses I didn't snort my first pixie stick

until I was 12 or 13 & all it did was give me blue snot for a few days.

[Orrex]

6. That's the smurfiest thing I've heard all morning.

[Marrah_G]

7. Kids see all sorts of stuff in movies and tv

So they play pretend. Suspension is stupid in a case like this. The kid will learn nothing from a suspension.

[packman]

8. Cheetoes

ground up cheetoes, that's the stuff.

[loli phabay]

11. cheetos are the devils powder, i recently braked hard from a hundred to zero

I had a big bad of cheetos on my passenger seat, it hit the dashboard followed by stuff hitting it. POP suddenly my car was filled with cheeto dust, even now.when i turn on the vents i get clouds of it.

[surrealAmerican]

12. I guess it's wrong ...

... that my first thought was: silly children, pixie sticks are the same thing, but in powdered form.

Two day suspension seems excessive for this - I'm thinking telling his parents should be enough.

[NuclearDem]

13. "Your client bought and smoked a dimebag of oregano!"

"My client's a moron, that's not against that law."

"For what, possession of a condiment?"