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To teach these girls a lesson.

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brightwell · 30/06/2010 20:42

Ds has told me that every day this week 2 girls at school have pinched his sandwiches off him, stuffed them in their mouths & run off. I'm thinking tomorrows sandwiches could be cheese & raw chilli.

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isthatporridgeinyourhair · 02/07/2010 22:04

They're 12 - not babies. Pubes won't kill them. What about jellied eels and horseradish?

kreecherlivesupstairs · 03/07/2010 08:42

DD had a similar thing with her salami sticks. A girl in her class would steal them (with menaces), when the school failed to act we took one out of the wrapper, rolled it in crushed chilli's and replaced it. DD reports it to be the last one ever taken.

bruffin · 03/07/2010 08:50

\i agree with putting something horrible tasting ie lots of chilli/wasabe/mustard but not something hidden like spit or pubes.

Someone kept nicking DH's cans of drink at work from the fridge. He was going to get the stuff you put on your nails to stop biting and paint it on the lid. Not sure if he ever followed it through.

Habbibu · 03/07/2010 09:35

Marmite probably is the sensible option, as it could be perfectly legit.

textpest · 04/07/2010 18:15

mashed up scotch bonnet chilli sandwiches - seeker why should he HAVE to defend his sandwiches?

Teach the little madams a lesson they won't forget!!!

seeker · 04/07/2010 19:15

He shouldn't have to defend his sandwiches - but it won't help to bully the bullies.

bruffin · 04/07/2010 19:23

It's not bullying them, it's exacting revenge.

seeker · 04/07/2010 19:33

And the desirability of exacting revenge is a good lesson to teach a child, yes?

isthatporridgeinyourhair · 04/07/2010 19:39

Well, they obviously haven't learnt that stealing and bullying is not on, so maybe a lesson on that with a manky sandwich would be useful. Alternatively, they could all sit down together, talk about the issues and then they can carry on as before.

pointydog · 04/07/2010 19:53

He's 12 years old. You should encourage him to come up with his own ideas to sort this out if it really is annoying him.

seeker · 04/07/2010 20:09

So people really are encouraging this behaviour! Oh, honestly, what will it do? If it's really bullying, it will make it worse, if it's "youthful high spirits" it will make it escalate.

Has he actually said to them "Please don't to that again"?

Has he told a teacher?

Has he tried sitting with a group of friends?

Has he tried anything at all to get them to stop?

textpest · 07/07/2010 20:13

I think a revenge sandwich counts as trying to get them to stop - unfortunately it is the only way some kids learn and he is at High School not Primary so telling the teacher and asking them to stop will probably make it worse though phoning school to talk to his form teacher might be an idea

jangly · 07/07/2010 20:27

Are you sure neither of the girls are asthmatic. Chillies could close someone's throat with disastrous results. I think you are treading dangerous ground. Speak to the school.

thesunshinesbrightly · 07/07/2010 20:29

op chickened out then.

I would not even think twice, little bitches.

thesunshinesbrightly · 07/07/2010 20:32

Telling them to stop! i'm afraid that does not work in this day and age.

thisisyesterday · 07/07/2010 20:33

you know what, normally on these threads i would be a bit horrified and tell you to stop being stupid and let the school deal with it

i DO think the school should be informed, but sadly when they are this age that often does more harm than good (did in my case, ahving mummy looking after me)

OP's son shouldn't HAVE to protect his lunch, or be scared that someone is going to steal it
the girls are more than old enough to know what they are doing is totally unacceptable and therefore deserve everytjhing they get

personally I would go for something that is fairly disgusting but that would seem legitimate! vast quantities of blue cheese and marmite for example (that would make me wanna puke)

Jamieandhismagictorch · 07/07/2010 20:35

Do you know what. A while ago, I would have agree with you, seeker. But actually, unpleasant foodstuff, to me counts as Natural Consequences, not revenge.

I agree he should try a method of his own choosing first, and he has suggested telling the girls he spat on it (not actually doing it). He should ask them firmly not to do it, as well. But if that doesn't work, I think that sorting it out himself without hurting the girls will be great for his confidence.

Jamieandhismagictorch · 07/07/2010 20:35

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FlookCrow · 07/07/2010 23:04

Please please please do the chilli thing. Please. Scotch Bonnet and/or wasabi. Something that will sting.

Genius idea, I'm going to do that with the beer cans in my shared fridge..

mitochondria · 07/07/2010 23:07

My friend and I did this when we were in year 8, to the burger-eating-girl. Our school used to sell burgers at breaktime (before the days of healthy eating, obviously) - and any time someone bought one she'd always demand a massive bite.

we mixed up chili powder and citric acid.

It worked.

booyhoo · 07/07/2010 23:12

my sister told me yesterday that her and her friends put laxative in their milk in 6th form. they bought the milk between 6 of them and found out that 2 other girls had been using it but denying it so they put laxative in it. one of the girls had to ask to be excused in the afternoona nd wasn't in the next day. she says she had food poisoning.

mitochondria · 07/07/2010 23:26

booyhoo - that is a bit mean. But funny.

At uni we had a shared kitchen between about 20 people, milk-stealing was rife.

I put a note on mine once that said "I am a biochemistry student. Are you sure that this is just milk? Your choice."

YourCallIsImportant · 07/07/2010 23:26

A classmate of mine used to steal sweets from my coat pocket, so one day I painted a bag of jelly beans with Stop N Grow and put them in my pocket.

She ate them during a French lesson with the meanest teacher in the school not only was she almost sick in the class, she got detention for the fuss she made.

She never ate my sweets again.

booyhoo · 07/07/2010 23:28

it was mean but i was in stitches when she told me. i know the girls she was talking about and they were right cows. the sort that if you were out in a club with no friends nearby and they were there they would spill a bright red drink on your white dress and laugh.

CardyMow · 07/07/2010 23:36

My DD DID actually do that to someone who was nicking her sarnies...without my input I might add. She filled a sandwich with one thin slice of roast beef, and put about an inch of horseradish sauce in it. The daft Y8 girl that kept nicking her sarnies actually went to her head of year and told her that my DD was trying to poison her. When my DD explained that the older girl had nicked her beef and horseradish sarnie...the other girls HoY actually laughed at the other girl and told her it served her right! I only found out about any of it when the Y8 HoY phoned to tell me!! (DD is in Y7)

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