Kid sues school after attaching live electrical clamps to own nipples
Aug 31, 2010, 8:30 PM EDT
It’s the story you’ve heard so often before; kid in a high school shop class attaches electrical clamps to his nipples, and another student plugs in the cord. Kid then sues the school because of his injuries. It happened in Dover, NH, where Kyle Dubois was shocked so severely that his heart stopped beating. His parents are suing his teacher, the school district and the city of Dover.
The shop teacher’s excuse for not supervising the students more closely? He was talking with other students in the class about his fantasy baseball team. Yep, I knew we could eventually link this tragedy to Jeremy Hermida.
Read the rest of the account from the Associated Press and try not to picture every Three Stooges short you’ve ever seen:
On March 11, Dubois attached an electrical clamp to one nipple while another student attached another clamp to the other. A third student plugged in the cord.
Dubois was critically injured.
The New Hampshire Union Leader says Dubois’ suit contends he suffered permanent brain damage.
[Teacher Michael] Kelley resigned from his teaching position about a month after the incident. He declined to comment on the lawsuit.
Curly places light bulb in mouth. It glows brightly.
From the New Hampshire Union Leader:
“I was talking up my fantasy baseball team with one student and the next thing I know there was a commotion,” Kelley said during a video interview obtained earlier by the New Hampshire Union Leader. “I look and I hear an ‘Ouch.’ I look and there’s Kyle going to the ground.” Dubois’ heart stopped and paramedics had to restart it with a defibrillator. He was in critical condition and had to be taken to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where doctors drilled a hole into his skull to check on brain swelling.
Nothing funny about that. But I’m not sure it’s the school’s fault.
Wait a minute … is that Darwin’s music I hear?
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NH teen who zapped nipples during shop class sues [Associated Press]
Dover student sues over heart-stopping shock [New Hampshire Union Leader]
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- JoseOle - Sep 1, 2010 at 12:49 PM
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Man no comments on this? I’m going to be the first on to comment that the kid sounds like he already had brain damage for shocking himself on purpose. Just b/c you aren’t being watched and have to opportunity to do something doesn’t mean you should. I think he will live that lesson for the rest of his life.
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- Bull Durham - Sep 1, 2010 at 4:18 PM
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It’s a stupid kid who did something stupid and is responsible for his own stupidity. That said, the shop teacher shares in the responsibility for this happening. His job is to supervise the stupid kids in his shop class and try to derail stupid things from happening before they do. Say what you want about the kid, but there’s nothing wrong with the parents being pissed about the teacher’s lack of attention to his job.
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- hunnybuns - Sep 2, 2010 at 5:16 PM
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I agree with JoseOle. This kid had brain damage before he did this.
He is a moron. That is not the teacher’s problem. The parents raised him to be that way. Probably never told him no from the start. This idiot is not 4 years old and it is not like he doesn’t know any better.
The thought was -he would be “the man” and entertain his stupid friends who helped him. He got what he deserved. That’s the problem today with our system. The judge should laugh at him, tell him to get his ass out of his court-fine him and make him do community service for wasting the court’s time!!!!
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