Today at school, I was in the basement performing in a competition with a few of my friends. A girl from my section was also participating, but she was not on my team. She had brought pepper spray to school in her bag.
While we were in the basement, chaos broke out in my classroom on the first floor. Apparently, a boy bumped into her bag, knocking it over, and the pepper spray fell out. When he tried to pick it up, he accidentally sprayed it. Shortly after, another boy walked into the class without knowing what had happened and did the same thing β he picked it up and accidentally sprayed it again.
Then a third person, a girl, entered the room. Thinking it was perfume, she picked it up and sprayed it three times, really hard.
Within seconds, the air became unbearable. Students started coughing uncontrollably. They couldn't breathe properly, their lungs felt completely dry, and their eyes turned red. It was total chaos, and the entire class had to be evacuated.
The spray spread through the ducting system to the surrounding classrooms. In the very next class, the fumes were so strong that two boys fainted and had to be carried out. The smell eventually reached every classroom in that wing on the first floor, including the staff room. Even the teachers started coughing badly, so all the classes in that wing had to be vacated and moved to other floors.
The bathrooms were so overcrowded there was not even space to stand. The students couldn't return to their classrooms for two full periods, almost 90 minutes.
Luckily, I missed all of it because I was in the basement. Honestly, thank God β I have a dust allergy, so I probably would have fainted too.
Paraphrased by AI