More stupid human tricks… First, why would someone pay $25 for a bottle of Mad Dog 357 and second, why would someone try to chug it?
Hot sauce gets Concord students in hot water
By Kellie Applen
CONTRA COSTA TIMESthe Ex Martin loves hot sauce.
So much so, the 16-year-old Concord High School senior dropped $25 for a bottle of Mad Dog 357 and brought it with her to school today.
Little did the Ex know, the fiery sauce would end up hurting two classmates and lead to the school suspending her and a 15-year-old friend, Stephanie Goins.
“I thought it was ridiculous that I got suspended for possession of a deadly weapon and it was hot sauce,” the Ex said.
Principal Ronald Miller said the girls were suspended for the way they used the sauce, not because they had it.
“If anything causes a disruption or harm to anyone, then it’s grounds for taking disciplinary action,” he said early this afternoon. But after talking to students and parents again, the school revoked the suspension. Still, the girls spent one day at home.
the Ex and Stephanie said they brought the sauce to school because several friends had boasted they could handle the heat, the Ex said. Before their first class Thursday, a 16-year-old male friend tried to prove it by chugging the sauce, she said.
Turns out, he couldn’t. The boy started breathing hard, his face turned red, and he got the shakes, the Ex said. The school called paramedics, though he insisted he would be fine, the Ex said.
“Even the paramedic said there is nothing wrong. He said, ‘It’s just hot sauce,’” the Ex said.
The school called paramedics again when a supervisor realized another male student accidentally got hot sauce in his eye, she said.
Stephanie and the Ex went to class but were pulled out by a supervisor, brought to a vice principal’s office and slapped with a two-day suspension.
“It was their own stupidity and we shouldn’t have gotten in trouble for it,” Stephanie said
Neither girl was in trouble with their parents. And upon further reflection, school officials decided the girls may not have been at fault.
the Ex’s father, Vince Martin, said the school overreacted.
“I think it’s stupid,” Martin said. “I mean it’s a food item, OK? I have never heard of anybody getting suspended for hot sauce. Knifes and guns, yes.”
Though Martin appreciates his daughter’s love of spicy food, he doesn’t touch the stuff.
“It just tears me up so I don’t eat it.”
32 responses to “Suspended for hot sauce”
wow, school is a lot diferent from when I was a kid. But frostbite or Lava”hot” would have help me choked down those square pizza bricks.
Those kids are just lucky they learned that lesson at school and not at a hot sauce show. I would have had to pull out the Black Mamba….I’m a big fan of natural selection.
Wow….Good thing they didn’t have something a Hell of a lot hotter.
It could have been extract. That would have been a big problem.
If she had known the inane trouble she was going to get in, she should’ve coated the gym shower controls and locker handles with the stuff.
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Yeah, Hotternell, eh….
If they only knew…… a little bullet vial on your keychain filled with powder….
OMG, do the girls get suspended for showing a little too much leg and giving half the hormonal teenage guys high blood pressure? 😯 That’s a dangerous weapon… LOL!
Imagine the damage if Mad Dog 357 Special Edition was involved. COuple drops of that and im good for an entire meal.
Chugging it? Stomach implosion no doubt
Sometimes I think the hotter sauces like this are made for situations such as this. I love it! The parents probably think it is funny too! Now who is selling mad dog for $25?!
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im gonna have nightmares
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357 *is* extract. This is one of CaJohns’ & my greatest nightmares- some goof dares grandma to try it telling her it’s ‘mild’ and she keels over from a heart attack. File it under ‘stupid human tricks’ indeed. I’ve a similar story in my book about a 5 year old kid trying “Sudden Death”.
Yup, my buddy said the same thing happened at his skool years ago…dont know what it was(probably something in the extract catagory) but the kid thought he was a big man…..but ended up getting his stomach pumped
[Comment ID #64304 Quote] You know the old saying…”Hot sauce doesn’t kill people”…blah, blah,blah.
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Mine as well go all the way…haha..insanity…:)
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Yep, and 90% of the stupid things people do are caused by Stupidity! 🙂
I think a big difference comes down to how it’s presented. Tricking an old lady, or sneaking it into someone’s food, or the like – and the perpetrator should be punished. That just isn’t right. And it would be even more a shame if the hot sauce maker was held liable for anything. It certainly isn’t their fault. But, though I certainly not any sort of legal expert, I can’t imagine the warning labels/waivers would hold any water in court.
But bringing in something, giving fair warning, and then having someone eat it is the fault of the one who put it in their mouth. No reason those girls should be punished.
DK want some sauce?
Hey all, thanks for commenting on this story. I was actually one of the girls who got suspended, I’m Laura.
Reason why I spent $25? It took me forever to find this hot sauce, a few months, that’s why I was willing to spend that much for it, I had seen the hotness of it before and I just wanted it.
We did give the guys a forewarning, hell the guys who drank it, we’re all friends, one of them are one of my best friends.
Well Thanks for the Support you guys!
Laura Martin
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Yeah it is quite hot. I think quite a few of us have out stories of hot sauce torture Quite alot of fun 🙂
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that’ll teach him not to believe you!! lol
aaron, alot of stories, but can anyone say they got suspended? that’s defiantely a classic!
Fair warning is all that I’ve ever asked folks to give 🙂 If the taster chooses not to listen to the warning at that point, oh well 😉 I call it ‘enlightenment’ 😛
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may enlighten them more than once too….lol
Good mornin….
DK want so jerky?
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Ummmmm, let’s see………. Yep! 😀
Morning truth! speaking of jerky. If time allows, I’ll be playin around with a new recipe tonight.
And to clarify my earlier comment, I was not saying thatLaura was stupid, but just a general statement meant to be funny.
Good Morning Everyone!!!! Ok, I gotta get back to work on a few projects. Later.
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Dk what are you playing with
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I think that could be considered a personal question Bret 🙂
Good morning everyone!
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Not even funny! 🙂
Bret, to answer your question in a non personal manner ( 😉 ), mostly house chores and yard work. Got a couple of PSP projects on the burner though. Mostly photo projects for family. Still got a lot of pics from the reunion that I’m putting on disc and such. I’m gonna keep my mouth shut on the hot sauce related stuff for now, being that i don’t know much abou it my self! 😉
Kristi, that was bad! You should be ashamed! 🙂
Suspended for hot sauce in school? In south Louisiana, they gave the stuff to us! Tabasco and Panola were as common as salt and pepper shakers on the tables in the caf from junior high up. ‘Course, that’s no 357, but still.
Self-inflicted pain is a right, not a privilege!
Right on, anyone who thinks they’re MAN ENOUGH needs to pay the consiquences! Recently I held a hot sauce contest and every one involved was WARNED ahead of time BUT thought they were MAN ENOUGH, eveyone that took part ended up with severes abdominal pain and had projectile vomiting within ten minutes of injesting my mix of home grown chilis with a good dose of 3AM. The winner got a 12 pack of beer and a 2AM Reserve! I even took a teaspoon of the final sauce to let them know I wasn’t just trying to screw them over, I too had projectile vomiting! It was an awesome time that none of us will ever forget. Blair is the bomb.
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Hey!! How are you?? I”m trying to get in touch with you,could you maybe send Nick your email addy and give him the ok to send it my way? Thanks, gives little Nando and that pretty wife of yours a big hello from THT.
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When we do Demos we warn and tell people about the heat levels , they don’t care. I told Blair about 4 weeks ago I let someone try 16mil. It hit them hard later. 1 little grain. Is far as I know if it’s being made and it’s hot we will let anyone try it. Ooh it’s so much fun to watch them flop around on the floor like a fish.
“Ooh it’s so much fun to watch them flop around on the floor like a fish.”
So true Bret, so true. Watching the tin-plated Supermen say, “You can’t make it hot enough”, does nothing but put a smile on my face. It makes life worth living.
Ummmm….wow, as a person who’s had this stuff on two occations I actually twitched when I heard some dumb kid actually chugged it!
Now, I’m a lover of hot sauce…..but my limit seems to be about 80,000 units for the most part (if coating all my food with it)……
But Mad Dog puts me in a serious state of pain when I tried it…..
Those kids must’ve felt like ass all day: )