Morning Blotter: "he would be paddled and then given one egg to break over his own head"
Seattle police are investigating the hazing of a 15-year-old Seattle student as a case of possible aggravated assault.
On June 11th, police received a call from a woman who said her 15-year-old relative had been involved in a "froshing" incident at his school earlier in the day, although his participation appears to have been voluntary.
The report says that afternoon, a senior at the school told the 15-year-old freshman "he would be paddled and then given one egg to break over his own head."
The student apparently didn't feel forced or threatened and later got into a car with the senior and went to another location to meet up with a group of students.
At the second location—which appears to be a park of some sort with a bridge—the senior did that thing that everyone's mom warns them about and asked the 15-year-old if he would jump off a bridge while other students watched.
The 15-year-old told the senior he couldn't swim and instead agreed to a paddling and egging.
The report says the Senior hit the 15-year-old student "four times on the buttocks over his blue jeans with a ping pong paddle (with drilled holes)" and then presented him with an egg, which the 15-year-old smashed over his own head.
Sigh.
After the self-egging, the 15-year-old started to walk away, and felt an egg hit him in the back of his head, which, the report indicates, he was none too happy about.
The 15-year-old was not injured in the incident, and the report says the senior even "offered to give him a ride home after the 'froshing' was over." Nevertheless, the teen's relative reported the incident to police and said she "wanted to have him examined...to be sure nothing else happened."
Kids do the dumbest things.