Plaster of Paris gets hot.

[Churchill]

Hello? Anyone else read this bit?

yes, and it happened the week before, same school. possibly a prank gone wrong

So, would a verdict of misadventure be out of order?

Fine the school for not reporting the incident to the HSE but, the evidence (brought up by the prosecution...?) m'lud...

[Moscow Mule]

Hello? Anyone else read this bit?

Some kids are just idiots. Unfortunately sometimes an idiot gets hurt really quite badly and the teacher gets 100% of the blame.

[Churchill]

Some kids are just idiots. Unfortunately sometimes an idiot gets hurt really quite badly and the teacher gets 100% of the blame.

That my dear Mule, is my point.

The kid appears to have f**ked up - big stylee!

It's a shame in this case but actions have consequences non the less.

[Paddy]

1. How dumb is the teacher not know that Plaster of Paris heats up while setting.
2. How dumb is the teacher using a bucket full to take a hand impression. That is not the way to do it.
3. How dumb is the teacher wasting so much Plaster of Paris, the effing stuff is expensive.


I really feel sad for the girl.

[Churchill]

1. How dumb is the teacher not know that Plaster of Paris heats up while setting.
2. How dumb is the teacher using a bucket full to take a hand impression. That is not the way to do it.
3. How dumb is the teacher wasting so much Plaster of Paris, the effing stuff is expensive.


I really feel sad for the girl.

Read the article again and then understand the words you read!

Jo Anderson, prosecuting for the HSE, said the girl had been told by her teacher to put her hands into clay to make a mould.

She was then supposed to pour the liquid plaster into the clay mould. Instead she put her hand up to the wrist into the bucket of plaster.

[EternalOptimist]

1. How dumb is the teacher not know that Plaster of Paris heats up while setting.
2. How dumb is the teacher using a bucket full to take a hand impression. That is not the way to do it.
3. How dumb is the teacher wasting so much Plaster of Paris, the effing stuff is expensive.


I really feel sad for the girl.

paddy - stop making an @rse of yourself

[shaunbhoy]

"In what has been described as a freak accident, the employee, Mr sasguru, when approached by his line manager to knead the dough for the next batch of Pizzas, inadvertently placed his head inside the oven for 25 minutes. A fellow employee helped to pull mr sasguru free from the oven, but not before his hair had frizzed to the extent that he looked like a burst sofa, and he also had a face like a madman's @rse. Senior management at Dumbino's Pizzas are investigating the incident and have promised to tighten up the regulations on Pizza prep. Fortunately Mr sasguru has bounced back from the "hair-raising" incident and only last week gained a Cycling Proficiency Badge to complement the 3 grade E GCSEs that he amassed earlier in the summer"

[TimberWolf]

It's fortunate the boys weren't left alone with the stuff long enough to make impressions of their own.

It's a very tragic case though and the pain must have been incredible.

[Diestl]

Teachers should be there to protect the kids, the kid wouldnt have known Plaster of Paris heats to that degree on setting. One question why didnt someone smash it off?

[Paddy]

paddy - stop making an @rse of yourself

The story differed depending on the medium.

Quote from the Daily Mail

"A school was ordered to pay £19,000 today after a 16-year-old girl lost most of her fingers when she put her hands in a bucket of plaster of Paris during a school art lesson. The teenager was attempting to make a sculpture of her own hands during a lesson in January 2007 when the horrific accident happened. The plaster set around her hands and neither staff nor paramedics could get it off during the lesson at Giles School, in Boston. Within minutes the effects of the chemicals in the plaster had started to cook the girls' hands from the inside…"