A Florida high school football team playing an away game showed no signs of illness while on the bus to the game. During the game, however, most of them developed severe diarrhea. They shat all over their uniforms and several of the team's best players were in the locker room trying to clean themselves up in the critical last minutes of their losing game. Their coach
Richard Burnoski said that the opposing school had filled his team's water coolers before the game. He believes that one or more of the opposing team's supporters put laxatives in his team's water coolers as a prank before the kickoff. "We lost the game and we're not trying to make excuses, but when 15 kids have the same problem at the same time, I'm almost positive something was in the water," Burnoski said.