Eight students were sent to the hospital after someone released Axe body spray into their Brooklyn middle school classroom.
Emergency crews arrived at Medgar Evers Middle and High School in Crown Heights just after 1 p.m. on Wednesday in response to calls reporting a hazardous smell inside the building, according to the New York Daily News. Once there, though, officials realized that someone had sprayed a wealth of Axe into a room filled with sixth-graders, causing eight students to be taken to the hospital. Some reported feeling ill.
The school was briefly shut down while investigators checked out the situation.
The student who first unleashed the body spray on the classroom is now facing disciplinary action, Business Insider reported.
"EMS transported eight students to the hospital, and parents and two students took them to their own doctors," a statement from the city's Department of Education read.
No serious injuries were reported. The school was shut down briefly, following the incident.
Axe, a deodorant spray regarded as a staple by many teenage boys, did not release a statement in response to the report.
A Slate writer and mother of pre-teen boys recently tried wearing the spray for a week.
Dahlia Lithwick tested the deodorant for seven days, in efforts to see whether its marketed image of a scent irresistable to women proved true-to-life.
"Both my kids were so embarrassed that they stopped using it within days of my initiating the experiment," Lithwick wrote. "Smell you later, Axe."
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