OMG ... even after almost 3 years since the occurrence ... it's still a little hard to believe ... what the hell was the kid thinking while he was stabbing the other kid with the rocket?! I mean I have never seen Freddy Kruger or Jason pick up a model rocket and start impaling their teenaged victims with it!
Here is the story and link:
An eighth-grade Centennial Junior High student was accidentally stabbed with a model rocket Tuesday afternoon at the east-side school, according to district officials.
The unidentified 15-year-old sustained a one-inch puncture wound to the chest when he and a 13-year-old friend engaged in "horseplay" over the Estes Rocket during class, said Wayne Beatty, the district's Safe Schools administrator.
At approximately 12:40 p.m. Tuesday, the boys' technology class was on the football field launching the model rockets when the incident occurred, Beatty said.
The boys had been standing by the goalposts and spotted an unfired rocket, he added. "Both boys went for the rocket at the same time," Beatty said. "They engaged in horseplay trying to grab the rocket (and) ... one of the boys began poking the other with the rocket."
The boy sustained a minor chest wound just above the sternum, he said.
School officials determined that the wound and its possibility of infection was serious enough to call for an ambulance from the Wyoming Medical Center.
The boy was transported to the hospital, where he was X-rayed and sutured, and then released, Beatty said.
According to a Casper police report, the victim's mother agreed that no charges were to be filed against the other boy.
The 13-year-old is spending the last four days of the school year in the in-school suspension program.