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School administrators tend to have their hands full thanks to mischievous students who can dream up plenty of ways to stir up some trouble. However, a teaching assistant at a high school in South Carolina was allegedly the perpetrator in a string of incidents involving a “poop spray” that led to the district racking up a hefty bill in an attempt to get to the root of the problem.
It’s hard to envy the teachers who are tasked with educating young people who would typically prefer to be doing literally anything else than being subjected to lessons while cooped up in a classroom.
The adults tasked with molding those impressionable minds also have to deal with the fact that those brains aren’t fully developed, a reality that has contributed to many, many students making some ill-advised and incredibly short-sighted decisions that came back to bite them.
It would consequently seem safe to assume that a high school that found itself dealing with a horrendous odor that was eventually traced back to a spray that smells like fecal matter would end up identifying a pupil as the perpetrator. However, that was not the case with the saga that recently unfolded at one in South Carolina.
A teaching aid was arrested for allegedly terrorizing a high school in South Carolina with a spray that smells like poop
Students at West Florence High School in Florence, South Carolina headed back for their first day of the new academic year on July 28th, and the campus found itself dealing with a fairly unique issue around a month later as the unmistakable smell of poop began to permeate classrooms and hallways.
According to Local12, administrators quickly dispatched technicians to examine its gas lines and air conditioning ducts after the odor, which was serious enough to induce “headaches, nausea, and dizziness,” managed to result in “significant disruptions” after it was detected for the first time on August 25th.
It continued to be an issue for weeks on end until the mystery was seemingly solved last week after police arrested a 32-year-old teaching aid named Alexander Lewis, who was charged with disturbing schools and malicious injury to property with the help of the “poop spray” he reportedly bought online before repeatedly deploying it at the high school.
The school district said the inspections and cleanings it ordered due to the odor ended up costing nearly $55,000, and Lewis is being held on bond ahead of a hearing where he’ll answer to one of the charges against him on October 1st.