Oct 11, 2007 11:36 am US/Eastern
'Quiet' Game Leaves S.I. Boy With Ruptured Spleen
Eighth Grader Faces Felony Charges Following Game Where Classmates Throw Textbooks At First Person To Speak
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A Staten Island boy had his spleen removed after being struck on the side by a textbook during a round of the game "Quiet."
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Chaz Carvalho shows a book similar to the size of the one that struck him while he was playing the game "Quiet."
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A bizarre, yet popular and quite dangerous new game that students at a Staten Island school apparently came up with left one boy with a ruptured spleen and a classmate of his facing felony charges.
The game is called "Quiet" and the rules are quite simple: everyone stays quiet and the first person to speak has a barrage of textbooks from the other players thrown at him or her.
But the outcome of a recent round didn't fare so well for 13-year-old Chaz Carvalho, an eighth grader at Dreyfuss Intermediate School in Stapleton.
"A big, heavy rock it felt like, going like 10 miles per hour," Carvalho tells CBS 2.
What felt like a rock was really one of the textbooks that hit him on the side after he and his classmates engaged in the game after wrapping up a math class with a substitute teacher.
"She gave us work and we did our work and she said we can do whatever we wanted," Carvalho says. "I went to go breathe and I said something by accident and they threw books at me."
Carvalho ducked a few of the flying books, but was eventually struck by one and went down writhing in pain.
The impact was so severe that Carvalho's spleen ruptured and needed to be removed. The student is now on antibiotics around the clock and recovering at home with 29 staples on his stomach.
The 14-year-old girl who threw the book was even arrested and faces felony assault charges.
Carvalho's mother was not amused by the careless game.
"Looking at that I couldn't believe how many stitches he had. I was like wow, I was amazed," Mrs. Carvalho says. "I really want to know what the teacher did, why the teacher didn't do anything from the first book that was thrown."
According to Chaz, the teacher did nothing to help him.
"I was on the floor in pain and all the teacher said was, 'Sit back down, you're fine,'" he says.
The Board of Education says the substitute teacher will not be assigned again pending the outcome of the investigation. School officials in the meantime are fully cooperating with police and the ongoing investigation.
The Carvalho family is considering filing a lawsuit.
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