Teen Found Guilty of Adding Semen to Salad Dressing

Marco Castro was placed on two years probation, ordered to pay a $750 fine, and perform 120 hours of community service. Why? For contaminating salad dressing with semen, and then returning it to his high school's cafeteria in Chicago.

Judge Terence Sheen, in DuPage County, also ordered the 17-year-old Castro to write a letter of apology to Wheaton North High School officials. The community service that he must perform is 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, according to the Associated Press.

The incident happened back in December, on the 6th. Castro admitted to stealing a bottle of ranch dressing from the schools cafeteria and taking it to the bathroom with him. He then ejaculated into it and returned it to the cafeteria. Juniors and seniors of the school were still eating lunch at the time. Students reported what Castro had done, and the senior was then expelled from Wheaton North. There were no reported cases of illnesses from his prank.

Castro subsequently pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge. He said he thought of pulling off the prank after seeing it performed in a movie that was filled with crude stunts.

"I have no explanation for what I did," Castro said in court. "I felt bad after I did it", according to the Associated Press.

Castro's attorney, Harry Smith, has said that the teenager has already been punished enough. He has missed the end of his school year as well as humiliating himself and his family with the prank.

"It has not been without consequences," Smith said, according to the Associated Press.

originally reported by Associated Press and YahooNews, "Salad dressing semen spawns trouble"
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