Football players “deliberately put peanuts in severely allergic teammate’s locker”
Call me old-fashioned, but I think there’s a definite, sacrosanct line that shouldn’t be crossed when it comes to pranks that put people in real danger. Like, for example, exposing them to something they’re highly allergic to.
That’s exactly what happened at Lake Travis High School, Texas, last year, when Carter Mannon’s football teammates decided to sprinkle peanuts in his locker.
Carter’s serious peanut allergy was reportedly diagnosed when he was just nine months old.
“We had him sitting on the counter, and my husband was making a peanut butter sandwich right next to him. Carter reached his hand inside of the peanut butter jar and he ended up smearing it on himself,” his mom, Shawna Mannon, told PEOPLE in February 2024.
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