Zero tolerance gone mad, pt. 896
LEWISVILLE, Texas, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Prosecutors dropped charges against a Lewisville, Texas, teenager after they decided that sniffing hand sanitizer isn't a crime.
Charges against the 14-year-old student were dropped after prosecutors decided that hand sanitizer isn't an abusive inhalant under the Texas Health and Safety Code, The Dallas Morning News reported Monday.
"It's not a crime. Hand sanitizer does not fall within that statute," said Jamie Beck, first assistant district attorney in Denton County, Texas. "The police agency brought it up mistakenly thinking it was."
The boy was charged after rubbing his teacher's hand sanitizer on his hands at Killian Middle School and then smelling them. The boy's father quoted school officials as saying his son "inhaled heavily." However, the father said his son sniffed the substance "because it smelled good."
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