- We will say a bottle is too much, way too much, of a good thing.
You know when someone uses too much perfume, and you can’t breathe? Well, this is pretty much what happened on a school bus in Florida.
A bus driver reported what he thought may be a “hazardous materials” incident that caused thirty students to be evacuated from a Florida school bus last week. After the evacuation, half the students were treated for mild respiratory irritations due to smelling the “strong odor.”
The kids were then transported to a nearby high school so that their families could pick them up. All 30 students on the bus were accounted for and treated and released,” read a statement from the Parrish Fire District.
It turns out the offensive odor wasn’t a hazardous material at all, or at least not if it was used in the correct dosage. The odor was in fact a popular body spray, Axe.
A student had apparently sprayed themselves, liberally, while riding on the school bus. And by literally, we mean a whole bottles worth. When asked, none of the students fessed up to using the spray.
Division Chief Mike Williamson decided to sniff out the culprit, and personally interviewed each student that was on the bus that trip.
“We had heard reports from other community members that it’s somehow a thing with kids spraying it all over each other to smell nice or prank each other,” Williamson said. “They must have watched a lot of episodes of ‘Band of Brothers’ because they would not say who did it.”
The thing is, in talking to each child, it wasn’t hard to tell who it was that used the spray. Or better yet, to smell, who used it.
“Once I got down the line, I was able to determine it,” he said. “Before I could even tell [the student] what I was looking for, I made a motion like I was spraying, and he handed me an empty bottle of the black Axe Body Spray. I could smell it all over him.”
The incident was said to be a prank, but is still under investigation. Footage from the bus camera will be seen and further interviews will take place.
Williamson says this was the first Axe Body Spray evacuation of his 33-year career.