Laxative-Laced Brownies Rattle Nantucket School Committee Meeting

Laxative-laced brownies rattle Nantucket School Committee meeting

Nantucket School Committee members have filed a police report after a resident gifted them laxative-laced brownies.

Activist offers ‘laxative-laced brownies’ to school board members during meeting

An activist presented school board members with brownies “laced with laxatives” during a meeting. On Tuesday (2 June), Meghan Perry, a critic of Nantucket’s proposed $26 million artificial turf project, approached the podium at the Nantucket School Committee as their session began. Opponents of the plan say poly and perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) found in the synthetic turf are a danger to public health, according to the Nantucket Curren…

Woman Allegedly Brings Poisoned Brownies To School Board Meeting As Protest

A woman allegedly brought laxative-laced brownies to a June 2 school committee meeting in Nantucket to protest an artificial turf installation.

Nantucket woman offered laxative-laced brownies to school committee members

Meghan Perry offered brownies to the Nantucket School Committee, then said they had a non-detect amount of Ex-Lax - in protest of a turf project.

Nantucket activist offers laxative-laced brownies to school board members in protest

Meghan Perry offered the not-so-sweet treat to the Nantucket School Committee board members as she approached the podium as the session descended into chaos 30 seconds into the event on Tuesday.

A Nantucket resident offered brownies to the island’s school committee. Then she said they were laced with laxatives. - The Boston Globe

The gesture was apparently in protest of a proposed renovation to the island’s main sports field.