Visine spiked coffee leads to an investigation

A Michigan high school student has been suspended for a year after tampering with a teacher’s coffee, and now it is reported that the unnamed male could face criminal charges for his actions.

The teacher who was targeted was Mary Aldecoa, a twenty-four year veteran of the Fowlerville institute, and she believes that the alleged poisoning took place over a six day period in May which left here with a number of symptoms including nausea, stomach pains and severe headaches.

“I couldn’t move off the couch,” she said to the local American press. “I started feeling better, and I went back to school…and the same thing happened – I’d get really ill.”

The school’s superintendent, Wayne Rodel, has declined to release the identity of the suspect, though it transpires he has been suspended for a total of 180 days. Mr. Rodel also noted that the incident was only uncovered after a conversation was overheard that concerned a student putting some substance in a teacher’s drink. The name of the student in question “came up”, and the investigation was concluded later that day, he said.

Since the news story broke a number of days ago, the Livingston County prosecutors have called for ‘additional information’ to aid an investigation into the events.

The substance used in the ‘spiking’ of the coffee is believed to be Visine, a brand of eye drops produced by the multinational medical company Johnson & Johnson.

According to myth at least, the addition of Visine to drinks and beverages is believed to cause a harmless bout of diarrhoea or short-term vomiting; a story propelled by its inclusion in the film Wedding Crashers.

In reality Visine contains levels of Tetrahydrozoline, a substance which can cause a whole host of dangerous side effects such hypothermia, blurred vision, nausea, hypertension and seizures.