A teacher's otherwise perfectly sensible plan to teach children about the dangers of alcohol - by forcing them to wear goggles which simulated being drunk - went slightly wrong when a girl fell over, hit her head on a desk and knocked out her teeth.
On the plus side, it did simulate the effects of drunkenness very well.
An appeals court in Wisconsin yesterday upheld the $28,000 damages awarded to Lisa Voss, who sued the school district after the incident, on the grounds that the teacher's methods were, you know, perhaps a little irresponsible.
The teacher would make the students wear the goggles – which simulated the level of visual impairment you get with a .10 blood alcohol concentration – and get them to perform tasks like standing on one leg, throwing a ball at a bin, and walking between rows of desks.
The court heard that, astonishingly, students would often fall over when doing this.
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