Salad Semen Prank Sends Teen To AIDS Center

[William769]

(Wheaton, Illinois) A judge has ordered a 17-year-old to pay a $750 fine and perform 120 hours of community service for contaminating salad dressing with semen and returning it to a suburban Chicago high school's cafeteria.

DuPage County Judge Terence Sheen also placed Marco Castro on two years probation and ordered him to write a letter of apology to Wheaton North High School officials. Castro must complete his community service work for an agency that works with AIDS patients.

Sheen called the prank "beyond stupid." "If you prove to me you're worthy of another chance, in two years, then I will give it to you," Sheen said.

Castro pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct in connection with the Dec. 6 incident. He admitted taking a bottle of ranch salad dressing from the school cafeteria to the bathroom and ejaculating into it, and then returning it to the cafeteria where juniors and seniors eat lunch.

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/05/052907salad.htm

Just another reason why education is so important on the subject of A.I.D.S.

[Systematic Chaos]

1. All this AND some of his peers are going to hunt him down, most likely.

He won't quit paying for that stunt for a while, methinks. :(

[Clark2008]

2. Why do boys think this is funny?

This, of course, isn't the first time this has happened.

Besides, there are much more fun ways to get someone to ingest one's semen. :evilgrin:

[hlthe2b]

3. Cruel joke that boy's testosterone peaks well before any

emotional or mental maturity.... Some of the antics I observed as a teen/pre-teen would have gotten some smart ass boys a "sex offender" status (and lifetime designation/registration) nowadays...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. That's A Most Unlikely Mode Of Transmission

But what a sick prank....

[Stuckinthebush]

5. Agreed...highly unlikely...almost impossible

But nasty nonetheless.

[devilgrrl]

6. What's even sicker is that so many people here thought the "prank" was a laff-riot

Now that's f%#*ing sick! :puke:

[William769]

10. Would you be willing to bet your life on it?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

17. Hmmm

No, I don't think it would taste very good but I suspect the chances of becoming infected with HIV that way are statistically insignificant...

[JackBeck]

18. It's impossible.

HIV dies when it hits the air and would also be diluted in the salad dressing. The mucous membranes in our mouths are very strong, and researchers have found that enzymes in our saliva break-down HIV. On top of that, when the fluid reached the stomach, our stomach acids would destroy any infected fluids.

What's next? You can get HIV from a toilet seat? Mosquitoes? Sharing the same eating utensils?

:eyes:

[William769]

27. Excuse me, but it does not die when it hits the air, just has a short life span

Like I said ignorance & education..

[JackBeck]

30. Since I was referring to this situation, by the time he brought the bottle back to the cafeteria

If his semen had HIV present, it would have died by the time someone would have ingested the sample.

HIV dies when it hits the air, or there soon after. Within a few minutes, if you want me to clarify.

But like I've been saying, HIV could not have been transmitted in this situation.

[William769]

31. "HIV dies when it hits the air" that is your quote not mine.

ON EDIT: it's not minutes, it's hours.

[JackBeck]

32. And I just clarified it.

Care to refute any of the other points I brought up?

[William769]

33. I will only reiterate

Ignorance & education.

[JackBeck]

55. I'm confused.

Are you saying that I'm ignorant and need to be educated on this issue?

Could you please clarify your post?

I would think that anyone who has a basic knowledge about HIV transmission would know that a kid who is HIV negative would never transmit HIV from jackin' off in salad dressing.

And even if he was HIV positive, and committed said act, he could not transmit HIV. This is Ryan White all over again.

[spacelady]

57. He ejaculated into a bottle. Screw the lid back on.

how is that "hitting the air". just wondering considering how specimens are collected. not trying to be dense...help.

[JackBeck]

58. Air enters the bottle before the lid is placed back on the bottle.

And then when the top is replaced, air is trapped in the bottle.

[LostinVA]

35. JackBeck is correct

Question: How long can the virus live outside the human body?
Answer: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus is fragile. Once the virus is outside the body in a dry form, it dies immediately. Even in a wet state, it does not live long when exposed to heat, detergents, or disinfectants. When stored in blood banks at 4°C, it can live for about 3 weeks (or longer), or till the white cell disintegrates, but in a frozen state it can survive for years.

Question: How is HIV not transmitted?
Answer: HIV cannot spread by casual contact such as touching, holding hands, body contact in crowded public places, shaking hands, working or playing together, sharing food, vessels and clothes, eating food cooked by an infected person, light kissing, mosquito and other insect bites, swimming pools, and toilets.


http://www.youandaids.org/About%20HIVAIDS/Frequently%20Asked%20Questions/index.asp


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Even in a wet state, HIV will die very, very quickly unless all factors of temperature, humidity, and UV rays are PERFECT -- basically impossible outside of a lab.

[William769]

36. What about injecting drug users?

"Even in a wet state, HIV will die very, very quickly unless all factors of temperature, humidity, and UV rays are PERFECT -- basically impossible outside of a lab."

Even that website says it's a 8.20%.

[LostinVA]

38. Totally different environment

This is one place HIV has been know to survive. Because drug injection syringes are airtight and often contain blood from the injector. But that's not what this thread is about, is it?

[William769]

39. it's not? HIV outside the body.

A syringe is outside the body.

I will say this and then stop this tit for tat going on here. HIV has been around for 20 plus years and there are still many many unanswered questions. As someone who is HIV positive I woud only ask people to side with caution. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

[LostinVA]

40. You are backpedaling

You're only stopping the "tit for tat" because you know it.

I really wish misinformation about HIV/AIDS would stop being spread, especially on a board and by a person who knows better.

:sigh:

[William769]

41. Where have I backpedaled?

[LostinVA]

43. Oh boy -- where haven't you?

I'm done with this. You need to remember that many people under 30 have had no real HIV/AIDS education or mythbusting, and all this will do is lead to the misplaced hysteria of the 80's. I had too many friends experience this shunning in the short time before their deaths from this disease because of stuff like this. I will reiterate: ignorance kills, ignorance breeds fear and intolerance.

[William769]

45. Just what I thought.

Adios.

[LostinVA]

50. Just what I thought

Backpedal city.

[William769]

51. Still haven't shown where.

I'm waiting.

[JackBeck]

49. You make an excellent point.

Between "AIDS-fatigue" and our government that still send materials across this nation saying that HIV can be spread through sweat and tears, I fear we may have a new generation of children without one ounce of understanding on how HIV is transmitted.

[LostinVA]

42. I forgot to address this: AIDS has been around way longer than 20 years

It's more like 70 years.

[William769]

44. Hence the plus since it cannot be pinpointed.

[JackBeck]

47. I went to a four-state HIV/AIDS conference in Arkansas a few months back.

One of the main presentations was on the origins of HIV. It was fascinating to find how geneticists and now able to track back, through observing gene mutations, and get a sense of when and where HIV came from. Although they haven't been able to exactly pinpoint the first transmission of HIV, they have a greater sense on how HIV was spread, and just how long we've been living in the presence of this virus.

[donheld]

56. Yes, I would bet my life on it

In a New York minute. :crazy:

[hiaasenrocks]

7. Gives a whole new meaning to the term Salad Shooter.

[guitar man]

16. ...

:rofl:

[devilgrrl]

52. Next time he should shoot you in the gob - see how funny it is then.

Fa ha ha - some kid shot his load into my salad dressing - isn't that funny? :drag knuckles:

:eyes:

[hiaasenrocks]

53. Oh, lighten up. Jesus, some people are wound way too tight.

[Warpy]

8. Icky doodle!

While it's unlikely to transmit HIV (stomach acid would destroy it), it is very likely to transmit herpes and HPV, if the punk is infected with either.

This judge was right assessing this punishment. I sincerely hope the school starts to use individual packs of salad dressings and other condiments from now on. The quality is inferior, but at least single use packs can't be contaminated by disgusting little punks with grudges against the world.

Some kids need to be nailed into a barrel and fed through the bung until they turn 25.

[MonkeyFunk]

29. I think HPV and herpes

are spread by contact with the skin, not the semen.

[Doremus]

59. Thanks for a mental image quite a bit more disgusting than the OP. nt

[cboy4]

9. You know, I'm not sure what purpose this thread serves, except as

fodder for juvenile comments.

Most of society is already frighteningly ignorant enough about the transmission probabilities of AIDS than to think they can potentially become infected this way.

Those who ingested any of that were far more likely to contract one of the more common STD's than HIV.

I think your comments about the importance of AIDS education infers otherwise, even though I'm sure you didn't intend it to come across that way.

[William769]

12. I did intend for it to come out that way.

Ignorance is ignorance. To do something as stupid as this, what elese is he capable of?

[cboy4]

14. Fine, I hope when he goes for his little schooling at the AIDS center,

they will tell him although what he did what was reckless and dangerous...

The people he potentially jeopardized had a far greater risk of contracting gonorrhea and other transmissible pathogens than HIV.

[slackmaster]

11. I'm disappointed he only got a misdemeanor conviction for that

Intentionally introducing a foreign substance into food that is to be eaten by numerous random people should be a felony (whether the foreign substance is actually dangerous or not).

He should have gotten five years in the pokey.

[JackBeck]

13. Why does the kid have to do community service at an AIDS organization?

That doesn't make sense. The kid was not HIV positive, nor is this a plausible means of transmission.

[guitar man]

15. well

they certainly wouldn't want him to pull it in a cafeteria would they? :shrug:

:rofl:

[gollygee]

19. Community service seems fair

and he'd have to do it somewhere. It's unlikely people could have gotten HIV in this way, but they could have gotten a different STD. It makes more sense than planting tulips in the park or lots of other kinds of community service. :shrug:

[JackBeck]

20. I guess I'm confused with conflating this act with transmission of HIV.

That was my first reaction a few days ago when I read about his sentence. And while anytime spent volunteering or doing community service at an ASO is a great thing, to this day, 25 years after the first reported case of HIV to the CDC, there is still loads of misinformation about how HIV is transmitted. And I get the sense that the judge is just as misinformed.

[gollygee]

21. I would hope that the defense attorney would have informed the judge at some point

But maybe the judge didn't know. That's certainly possible.

[cboy4]

22. Because someone as idiotic as him is going to go and

just say to himself, "whatever," when they give him his little lesson on communicable diseases.

You mean to tell me a 17 year old doesn't know he could have possibly made someone sick, with something -- as remote as it was??

I think manual labor in the hot sun doing some form of community service will make him think next time, far more than a class in an air conditioned building.

[gollygee]

23. He's just going to a class?

I thought he was doing actual community service work. If he's just going to a class, then I agree with you.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

54. I wondered that too

The only thing I can think of even close to being a reason is the judge wanted to teach him to be more careful with his bodily fluids. But even that doesn't manage to make sense. Who knows? It could be the judge had no reason other than this organization being the next on the list for a CS worker.

[JackBeck]

60. Thanks for pointing that out.

I hadn't thought about that being a reason.

[formerrepuke]

24. This type of 'joke' isn't even funny in a moronic, lowbrow kind of way...

Now, a plastic spider in the salad.. that's funny (if you're 12 years old).. but the 'semen-in-the-whatever' bullshit is just DERANGED.

[DemoDemoCratCrat]

37. American Pie

Apparently, some people think it's funny, judging from the success of this movie.
I wonder if this boy got his idea from the media.

[JVS]

25. Make him spend months being a jizz mopper at the porn theater

[Clark2008]

34. You know - that's not a bad idea.

Of course, he's too young to actually be in the theater - but, maybe, they can allow him in when the movies aren't playing.

[slackmaster]

61. I also endorse this reply

That must be one of the most disgusting jobs on the planet.

[Jed Dilligan]

26. Reminds me of

"Not Another Teen Movie"

True love is what I want the most....

[BlooInBloo]

28. Sheesh.

[Spirochete]

46. Must have watched Fight Club too many times.

What a disgusting bastard. I don't think he's going to going to get along too well with his fellow students from now on.

[MetaTrope]

48. Just out of curiosity...how do you know?

One reads these stories about somebody putting semen into salad dressing...or a fast food cook spitting on a cop's hamburger patty...how exactly does the end-user determine what happened? It's not like the average person makes a detailed examination of their food to see if there are unexpected body fluids mixed into them. I can only assume that the perpetrator somehow fesses up to it.