'Pupils hospitalised after copying Waterloo Road'

brummytom

Fucking idiots.

Six schoolchildren at a specialist science college had to be taken to hospital after they copied a TV storyline and made cocktails from a chemical.

The five girls and a boy, aged 14 and 15, mimicked scenes from an episode of the BBC drama Waterloo Road which aired on Wednesday evening.

The episode of the Manchester-based drama which centres on a troubled comprehensive school featured a girl being taken to hospital by a teacher after drinking the pure alcohol liquid sold by other pupils at the fictional school.

The lobby group Mediawatch has today demanded tighter content control after the incident at Aldridge School, in Walsall, West Midlands.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1227566/Aldridge-School-pupils-hospitalised-copying-Waterloo-Road-ethanol-plot.html


I go to school in Aldridge. It's a nice, middle-class Suburb of Walsall. Aldridge School's our sort of 'rival school', if you will.

We loved the fact they made national news for being such idiots


Anyway, I think it's terribly unfair to blame Waterloo Road for the idiocy of these kids - I watched the episode, it showed the character in question getting rushed to hospital and nearly dying.

Anyone who saw it and thought "Oh, lets try that" deserves what they get

Rented Mule

Darwin applauds.

brummytom

Rented Mule wrote: »

Darwin applauds.

They didn't die though... unfortunately

WeWillBeReborn

Only one word can sum them up: idiots

jumpguy

Hohoho! Lets drink the pure alcohol! Perfectly safe.

Clearly the science courses in England are failing miserably.

whatdoicare

How did they get their grubby hands on that stuff anyway?? Stoopid kids.

genericguy

wow, let's give them a copy of the virgin suicides on dvd...

Pace2008

whatdoicare wrote: »

How did they get their grubby hands on that stuff anyway?? Stoopid kids.

Pretty sure ethanol's a standard chemical in school labs.

brummytom

Pace2008 wrote: »

Pretty sure ethanol's a standard chemical in school labs.

Yep, we've got bottles and bottles of the stuff under the sinks in the science rooms.

Rumour has it they broke into the lab, so I've heard - booted the door. Don't know how true that is though

bigeasyeah

ROBOT HOUSE ! ! !

whatdoicare

Pace2008 wrote: »

Pretty sure ethanol's a standard chemical in school labs.

Well, it's been a long time since I was in school, but shouldn't chemicals be locked away from kiddies? We weren't allowed inside the lab without a teacher at any time!

Pace2008

whatdoicare wrote: »

Well, it's been a long time since I was in school, but shouldn't chemicals be locked away from kiddies? We weren't allowed inside the lab without a teacher at any time!

As Brummytom mentioned, they could have broken into the supplies room. In any case, a teacher couldn't possibly be expected to notice everything that goes on in the lab - the pupils could have easily siphoned some off while he/she was with another group. Students in my school used to rob lab supplies all the time, mostly just for the sake of it.

Poor Uncle Tom

Thats whats wrong with society.....the damn kids are drinkin all our alcamahol....and they cant even handle it.....hic.!

PFJSplitter

While tragic (for those kids), it would appear that the gene pool is cleaning up after itself...trying, anyway.

IvySlayer

The BBC was criticised for screening the pre-watershed scenes that inspired the potentially deadly stunt.


A parent, who did not want to be named, said: 'I was watching the programme at the time and I said to my husband that I thought someone would copy it.


'It never should have been screened because children are very impressionable. I think the BBC should be punished in some way for this - it could have turned out so much worse.


'These are developing minds that we are talking about. The BBC has a responsibility to take more care about what it puts out.'


Councillor Rachel Walker, who represents the council's children's services said the broadcaster had taken a gamble with the programme.

FFS. I await the knee jerk reactions.


Because of retards like those teens TV is going to experience a rigorous overhaul of 'health and safety' procedures. They'll probably ban the stuff completely of TV now.

phasers

Who the hell watches Waterloo road?

Busi_Girl08

phasers wrote: »

Who the hell watches Waterloo road?

The kind of people who think drinking pure alcohol is a good idea...

IvySlayer

phasers wrote: »

Who the hell watches Waterloo road?

Tom does :P

kowloon

So a girl in a tv programme drinks pure alcohol and goes to hospital.

The same thing happens in real life and the programme is blamed?

(Have I misread this?)

This is like saying someone saw a road safety ad and then went out and crashed a car, hence...

To The North

i wonder at which point someone suggested this plan and they all agreed thinking it was a good idea??

when i saw the title i thought for a minute you meant that guy who was murdered on dublin's waterloo road last year & there had been some sort of bizarre copycat attempt. this is much more ridiculous though! :pac:

To The North

kowloon wrote: »

So a girl in a tv programme drinks pure alcohol and goes to hospital.

The same thing happens in real life and the programme is blamed?

(Have I misread this?)

This is like saying someone saw a road safety ad and then went out and crashed a car, hence...

that is unfortunately what society is like these days, it's never the fault of the idiots who do stupid things in the first place. people want to put the blame anywhere but on their children's own choices.

don't you know that marilyn manson is to blame for all those school shootings!

brummytom

phasers wrote: »

Who the hell watches Waterloo road?

Ermm...

*raises hand*



I hate watching it with mom and dad though, they spend the hour whinging about how it's so unrealistic - I already know that!!

Mint Sauce

whatdoicare wrote: »

Well, it's been a long time since I was in school, but shouldn't chemicals be locked away from kiddies? We weren't allowed inside the lab without a teacher at any time!

from memory our supplies room was locked all the time, could only be accessed via the lab, again, locked if no lesson on, even walking through the corrior on the science floor got suspsicous looks, although in fairness, you got a suspsicous look almost where ever you walked in my, it was a nice place, good times.

phasers

brummytom wrote: »

Ermm...

*raises hand*



I hate watching it with mom and dad though, they spend the hour whinging about how it's so unrealistic - I already know that!!

I thought Waterloo Road was just where failed soap actors went to live out the rest of thir careers. You know, the lowest rung on the acting scale. Just under Casualty.

brummytom

phasers wrote: »

I thought Waterloo Road was just where failed soap actors went to live out the rest of thir careers. You know, the lowest rung on the acting scale. Just under Casualty.

Where does 'The Bill' fit into the scale?

phasers

brummytom wrote: »

Where does 'The Bill' fit into the scale?

That's ITV, they don't even feature on the ladder

stovelid

brummytom wrote: »

Where does 'The Bill' fit into the scale?

It's when you fall off the ladder and into a open manhole.

robinph

phasers wrote: »

I thought Waterloo Road was just where failed soap actors went to live out the rest of thir careers. You know, the lowest rung on the acting scale. Just under Casualty.

I thought Casualty featured at both the beginning and end of many a career though.

phasers

robinph wrote: »

I thought Casualty featured at both the beginning and end of many a career though.

Ladders go up as well as down

Edit: 6000th post... I've wasted my life

sceptre

from the article wrote:

The lobby group Mediawatch has today demanded tighter content control after the incident at Aldridge School, in Walsall, West Midlands.

Mediawatch is the renamed National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, the organisation formed by Mary Whitehouse to keep decency from slip sliding away on the telly (except on snooker, Neighbours and Dixon of Dock Green, which she liked). She particularly hated Doctor Who and the violence on Tom & Jerry, as well as deciding that Jackanory was irresponsible.

And it's published in the Daily Mail.

Now put the two of those things together.

from the article wrote:

I think the BBC should be punished in some way for this - it could have turned out so much worse.

Let's make the BBC drink ethanol.

from the article wrote:

In the broadcast on Wednesday, a nurse repeatedly told the pupils they could die and told them it was very dangerous.

Dammit, if only there had been some sort of warning or something...

brummytom

sceptre wrote: »

Mediawatch is the renamed National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, the organisation formed by Mary Whitehouse to keep decency from slip sliding away on the telly (except on snooker, Neighbours and Dixon of Dock Green, which she liked).

And it's published in the Daily Mail.

Now put the two of those things together.

Action after pupils drink ethanol - BBC
Review after pupils drink ethanol The Press Association
Pupils who copied TV storyline and drank ethanol have lucky escape -
Telegraph.co.uk
Teens copied TV, drank ethanol - United Press International
Pupils hospitalised after copying Waterloo Road - What's on TV
Pupils 'copy ethanol plot' - Teletext
Teens recreate TV Drama by Downing Ethanol - SkyNews

Just a selection of articles on the subject.

I hate the Daily Mail with a passion, but the whole blaming tv thing isn't limited to them - it made national news today in various publications and on the radio; many people have blamed Waterloo Road. They're morons though.

A form tutor at our school went mental at a mate of mine for laughing when she was telling her form about it this morning.
"IT'S NOT FUNNY! TEACHERS WILL LOSE THEIR JOBS OVER THIS! THEY'LL LOSE THEIR HOMES. THEIR CHILDREN WILL STARVE. DON'T YOU DARE LAUGH"

Bit of an over-reaction

ejmaztec

brummytom wrote: »

A form tutor at our school went mental at a mate of mine for laughing when she was telling her form about it this morning.
"IT'S NOT FUNNY! TEACHERS WILL LOSE THEIR JOBS OVER THIS! THEY'LL LOSE THEIR HOMES. THEIR CHILDREN WILL STARVE. DON'T YOU DARE LAUGH"

Bit of an over-reaction

She wouldn't perchance be the drama teacher, specialising in Greek tragedies, would she?:pac:

brummytom

ejmaztec wrote: »

She wouldn't perchance be the drama teacher, specialising in Greek tragedies, would she?:pac:

Textiles teacher, specialising in being a bitch with a permenantly enlarged gunt :pac:

ejmaztec

brummytom wrote: »

Textiles teacher, specialising in being a bitch with a permenantly enlarged gunt :pac:

Probably wears tweed knickers with elbow patches.:eek:

orourkeda

It all started with free education and was compounded by the fact that they let girls attend science school.

I dont know anymore.

brummytom

ejmaztec wrote: »

Probably wears tweed knickers with elbow patches.:eek:

:pac:
To completely digress, we've got some great teachers at our school.
The other morning, two good mates of mine (a boy and a girl, who are going out); were chatting in form.
Their tutor came over, and said
"You..er..seen..that..erm..Sexcetera programme?
...
It's weird
...
Er.. not that I've seen it"


I love that man

donmeister

brummytom wrote: »

I love that man

I'm pretty sure its illegal for a teacher and pupil to be in a relationship.

994

Pace2008 wrote: »

Pretty sure ethanol's a standard chemical in school labs.

Yes... and it's mixed with small amounts of poisonous methanol so as to make it undrinkable and thus avoiding having to pay excise on it. I think that was the real problem. After all, drinking 10 ml of actual pure ethanol is no worse than 25 ml of vodka.

sceptre

brummytom wrote: »

Just a selection of articles on the subject.

I hate the Daily Mail with a passion, but the whole blaming tv thing isn't limited to them - it made national news today in various publications and on the radio; many people have blamed Waterloo Road. They're morons though.

Fair cop, thanks for the links.

I remember having access to bad bad things in secondary school. I even recall one of the lads taking home a little bit of uranium in his front trouser pocket. Not necessarily the smartest thing in the world. I'm sure there there were plenty of warnings there too.

Seachmall

brummytom wrote: »

They didn't die though... unfortunately

At the very least I hope they're left infertile.



If not I better get the nutcracker out.

gurramok

brummytom wrote: »

:pac:
To completely digress, we've got some great teachers at our school.
The other morning, two good mates of mine (a boy and a girl, who are going out); were chatting in form.
Their tutor came over, and said
"You..er..seen..that..erm..Sexcetera programme?
...
It's weird
...
Er.. not that I've seen it"


I love that man

You're only a schoolkid?:eek:

Banter Joe

So is a specialist science college for "special" children then?

phasers

gurramok wrote: »

You're only a schoolkid?:eek:

16 in fact

Ether is where it is at.

partyatmygaff

sceptre wrote: »

Fair cop, thanks for the links.

I remember having access to bad bad things in secondary school. I even recall one of the lads taking home a little bit of uranium in his front trouser pocket. Not necessarily the smartest thing in the world. I'm sure there there were plenty of warnings there too.

wtf?
Why would a school Lab have Uranium???? They don't even have Mercury which would be alot less dangerous relative to uranium.

What type of idiot drinks ANYTHING from a school lab???

phasers

partyatmygaff wrote: »

wtf?
Why would a school Lab have Uranium???? They don't even have Mercury which would be alot less dangerous relative to uranium.

What type of idiot drinks ANYTHING from a school lab???

My school had mercury

qwertplaywert

phasers wrote: »

My school had mercury

Mine had Pluto. har har

brummytom

gurramok wrote: »

You're only a schoolkid?:eek:

Yes..?