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Friday, April 10, 2009

City TT Minor Students Receive Medical Treatment After Playing Doctor

Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 2:23 PM

Three TT Minor Elementary students received medical treatment earlier this week after the group of children found a hypodermic needle in a nearby playfield—located next to the school on 17th and Union—and decided to play doctor, apparently stabbing each other with the needle.

"Apparently some kids found [a needle] and were playing with it," says Seattle Schools spokesman David Tucker. "They received first aid care and were advised that if any of them had been actually poked by the needle to get tested or seek medical care." Tucker did not know the age of the students involved and would not comment on the results of the tests.

Tucker says the school plans to continue letting students use the playfield. "We do sweeps of the grounds and they’ll continue to do that," Tucker says.

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Things done changed. I remember finding a used condom in my elementary school play field once, but I guess I was lucky enough not to have any friends who wanted to play prostitute with it.

That's fucking scary though.

Posted by BombasticMo on April 10, 2009 at 2:32 PM

They must have been really really young to not have recognized it as an instant no-no.

Posted by Lily Fluffbottom on April 10, 2009 at 3:10 PM

uh, were these short bus kids?

who the fuck "plays" with a needle by stabbing yourself/others with it?

Posted by michael strangeways on April 10, 2009 at 3:12 PM

Oh great googly moogly.

Posted by Jonathan Golob on April 10, 2009 at 3:33 PM

Um, wow. At least they weren't playing junkie homo like some adults do.

Posted by CommonKnowledge on April 10, 2009 at 3:41 PM

Just think what might have happened had they found a plank with rusty nails and decided to play Saw VIII ...

Posted by Will in Seattle on April 10, 2009 at 4:01 PM

More needle exchanges for Seattle's oppressed junkie class! Celebrate divershitty! If you don't like living in a city that PC-tolerates pants-shitting junkie drunk bums and black gangatas, then move back to whatever boring white rethuglican neocon suburban hellhole you came from! Black dildoes for all lesbians!!!!!

Posted by Evergreen State Student Jacking Off To Che Guevara Posters on April 10, 2009 at 4:06 PM

What kid will willingly submit to being injected with a needle?

Posted by keshmeshi on April 10, 2009 at 4:10 PM

@8,
Exactly! I was terrified of getting shots when I was a kid, wtf?!?

Posted by Urgutha Forka on April 10, 2009 at 4:16 PM

it seems to me that if there was a more accessible needle exchange program, there would be less needles laying around in open park spaces?

i don't know if that is true or not.

how does the vancouver model work?

and why hasn't anyone invented a smarter/safer intravenous injection tool?

Posted by josh bomb on April 10, 2009 at 4:39 PM

Seattle has a great needle exchange program. Only 10-percent of users take advantage of it.

Posted by ummm on April 10, 2009 at 4:51 PM

I think they were playing House as in Dr. House ...

next thing you know they'll start gulping vitamins and calling them "my pills".

Posted by Will in Seattle on April 10, 2009 at 5:21 PM

I grew up next to a large and lovely park that was mostly tree covered hills. We had free run of the place, and I remember a friend of mine and I finding a used Kotex pad once, and being terrified by it.

And yes, we were undoubtedly very dorky children.

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay on April 10, 2009 at 7:07 PM