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Freshmen leave school to avoid attack with urine-filled balloons
A group of varsity cheerleaders allegedly threatened to assault the young girls with urine or bleach packed in water pistols or balloons. One mom says: "I will see [the school] shut down before I let my daughter go back there." (Macomb Daily News)
September 13, 2006 | Permalink
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Not surprised really. Although this was way back in the late 80's, a freshman cheerleader in my class was ostracized by the other cheerleaders for a while because it was discovered she shopped at-gasp and horror!-Kmart.
No one ever accused high schoolers of being rocket surgeons.
Posted by: Soo | Sep 13, 2006 6:20:09 AM
Rocket Surgeons?
Posted by: | Sep 13, 2006 6:38:41 AM
Forget it, Soo's on a roll.
Posted by: jUAN | Sep 13, 2006 7:20:30 AM
Rocket surgeons...brain scientists...whatever!
But let's see...cheerleader urine...where is that on the periodic table of elements? Next to boron...which rhymes with moron! (Not you, Sooo!)
Posted by: Rusty | Sep 13, 2006 8:03:43 AM
Okay, lemme 'splain. I once heard someone famous (or not so famous, just quoted) as claiming something wasn't "rocket surgery." Just thought it was funny, and use every now and again when someone's acting stugats. David Lee Roth used it recently in Rolling Stone magazine. But he never speaks coherently, so most people ignored that.
www.doubletongued.org defines it as such:
rocket surgery n. a task requiring intelligence or higher education; a difficult undertaking.
Thank you for calling, and have a great day!
Posted by: Soo | Sep 13, 2006 9:58:42 AM
pansies
Posted by: | Sep 13, 2006 11:01:10 AM
i just wanna say this.
Ever try to pee into a balloon?
Ain't easy.
Posted by: boynamedsue | Sep 13, 2006 11:43:29 AM
I loved the picture in the article of the Mom who appeared completely off the chart. The whole article was about stuff that could happen but didn't and you have parents wanting to shut the whole school down. That is part of the assumed power of rage that people think is a real thing. People are hysterical in this country. The more I deal with people the more I appreciate fish.
Posted by: TomW | Sep 13, 2006 11:49:34 AM
And Soo is right about that.
Posted by: TomW | Sep 13, 2006 11:54:44 AM
I live in the Detroit metro area and this was discussed on a radio morning show today. One of the younger girls' moms called in to give her side of the story - apparently the older girls won't let the younger ones go into the bathroom? The mother on the radio wanted her daughter to be allowed to carry mace in school "so that she could safely use the bathroom." Sounds like the younger girls are the ones who could have plenty of ammo in reserve.
Oh, and bullying is wrong, blah blah blah, but everyone knows freshmen are the bottom of the food chain. Maybe this Pink Posse needs to adjust to that.
Posted by: Just Me | Sep 13, 2006 12:02:48 PM
Once again, I am thankful that a) I no longer attend high school; b) my son no longer attends high school and c) my only child was a boy.
LOL, BNS has a good point.
Posted by: pnwgal | Sep 13, 2006 12:23:02 PM
We threw beer-filled balloons at people in high school (not freshmen, pretty much just anyone who was in our path on the last day of school ... particularly seniors from other schools). I didn't hear any complaints -- except from the guy who accidentally got one through the rolled-down window of his Lexus.
Posted by: Ambs | Sep 13, 2006 12:33:00 PM
Well, here we go again. I'm sure the cheerleaders are all good girls. Probably like the so-called Plastics in the movie Mean Girls.
But it does seem kind of strange that they would collect their own pee to fill balloons. Maybe they were going to get it from their boyfriends, after provinding service of course. Good girls.
Posted by: Charles | Sep 13, 2006 12:58:27 PM
They should have used those balloons filled with cheerleader urine to initiate freshman football players. They probably would have liked that.
Posted by: Annie Sprinkle | Sep 13, 2006 1:10:59 PM
Annie Sprinkle! I love you! I am coming to see you in Denver!!!
Posted by: Ambs | Sep 13, 2006 1:16:25 PM
