Here's a lesson in how to strip a term that should be meaningful -- in this case, "weapons of mass destruction" -- of all sense of gravity:

Two North Texas high school students turned themselves in to authorities Thursday, a day after they were charged in the case of drug-laced bran muffins that sent 19 Richardson school district employees to the hospital.

Joseph Tellini (left) and Ian Walker Joseph Robert Tellini, an 18-year-old Lake Highlands High School senior, and Ian McConnell Walker, an 18-year-old Bishop Lynch High School student, surrendered to Dallas County Sheriff's officials...

The mystery muffins, delivered May 16 to a Lake Highlands staff lounge, were eaten by workers who fell into bouts of dizziness and nausea. Tests confirmed the presence of the main psychoactive substance in marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol or THC.

Mr. Tellini and Mr. Walker each face five counts of assault of a public servant. The FBI North Texas Joint Terrorism Task Force filed the cases Wednesday with the Dallas County district attorney's office ...

"The FBI or the joint terrorism task force has the investigative authority for anything that is a weapon of mass destruction. We had to initially evaluate this to determine what it was," said FBI Special Agent Jennifer Moore...

Rachel Raya, a spokeswoman with the Dallas County district attorney's office, said prosecutors have been working with the FBI and Dallas police on the case ... Although the two men face third-degree felony charges of assaulting a public servant, Ms. Raya said prosecutors will ask a grand jury to enhance the charge so it becomes a more serious second-degree felony ... a second-degree felony carries punishment of two to 20 years in prison.

Why don't we just send them to Guantanamo?

More background: these kids were seniors on the verge of graduating. It was a stupid senior prank.

Right before we graduated, we took a half dozen geese in crates to one of our high school's buildings and set them loose in the hallways. We got no jail time.

Actually, come to think of it -- we never got caught.

Nevermind.