Hawaii preschoolers served Pine-Sol instead of apple juice by mistake, officials say

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A teaching assistant at a preschool in Hawaii accidentally gave children Pine-Sol cleaning fluid instead of apple juice, health officials said, adding that fortunately, nobody got sick.

Paramedics responded to the Kilohana United Methodist Church Preschool in Honolulu on Tuesday morning and evaluated three girls between the ages of 4 and 5, according to the Honolulu Emergency Services Department.

The girls didn't experience trauma or sickness, and their parents declined to transport them to the hospital.

The school, in a letter sent home to parents, called the incident "unfortunate" and noted that no children were hurt.

"Only sips were taken before the lead teacher realized the liquid was not apple juice," the school told families. "The staff responded immediately by calling EMS and police. The children's parents were immediately notified as well."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/hawaii-preschoolers-served-pine-sol-instead-of-apple-juice-by-mistake-officials-say/ar-BBQpj2e?li=BBnb7Kz

[Thomas Hurt]

1. How do open a bottle, even unmarked, of pinesol and mistake it something else?

Does this person not have a sense of smell?

[blueinredohio]

5. That was my thought Pine sol and Apple juice smell nothing alike.

[Sneederbunk]

2. A cleanse?

[Renew Deal]

3. I hear they all started wearing tight white t-shirts after this

[wasupaloopa]

4. You can smell pine sol. How could you get it mixed up ?

[Ms. Toad]

6. "The girls didn't experience trauma" - Really???

4-5 year old girls sip pinesol, teachers panic, EMS is called, their parents are called . . . and they didn't experience truama.

I don't thing that word means what they think it means.

[Hortensis]

7. Sounds good. Mistakes happen. This one was handled well,

with an abundance of appropriate overkill. No one was hurt (smiling as I imagine why, but i won't go so far as to take a sip of Pine-Sol to taste it). Presumably a happy ending in an imperfect world.

[Maggiemayhem]

8. There is no excuse. None.

[3catwoman3]

9. Not only do they smell completely different, the viscosity...

...is not the same, either.

Unless someone has no sense of somell, this is tough to explain.

[lilactime]

10. That assistant needs to be fired.