Students slip white powder into teacher's drink

You can go a long time without hearing about students trying to kill their teachers — or pretending to, anyway — and then, bam, you get more than one case. You may remember the Sheldon Intermediate School kids who put marker board cleaner in their teacher's coffee in February, and now there are two 10-year-old Pasadena girls who put an unknown white powder in their teacher's water this week.

The fifth-grade teacher at Bailey Elementary noticed Monday that his water didn't taste right, so he dumped it out, thinking it had soap in it. But then, on Tuesday, he noticed that the water tasted bad again and found white powder around the rim of his cup.

"They found two girls put vitamins and stomach medication into the glass. They were charged with tampering with a consumer product," Lewis said.

The girls told school officials they were just playing a prank. However, even their classmates didn't think there was anything funny about the incident.

"That could either kill someone or make them very, very sick," student Marcus Means said.

The teacher underwent testing to make sure the powder wasn't poisonous, and apparently it wasn't.