LAKELAND, Fla. – An eighth-grader was suspended from riding the school bus for three days after being accused of passing gas.

The bus driver wrote on a misbehavior form that a 15-year-old teen was passing gas on the bus on March 16 to make the other children laugh, creating a stench so bad that it was difficult to breathe. The bus driver handed the teen the suspension form the next day.

Polk County school officials said there’s no rule against flatulence, but there are rules against causing a disturbance on the bus.

The teen, Jonathan Locke Jr., said he wasn’t the culprit.

“It wasn’t even me,” Locke told The Ledger newspaper. “It was a kid who sits in front of me.”

Whether he did it or not, he might have gotten off easy. A 13-year-old student at a Stuart school was arrested in November after authorities said he broke wind in class.

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!

First of all, we covered the kid who got arrested back in November, as well as a man who was charged with farting on the police.  What is the deal here lately?  Is farting seriously becoming a crime?

Secondly, look, the smeller is the feller, no?  If you ask me the bus driver probably let one rip and then blamed it on this poor kid.

Thirdly, farting is funny people, DEAL WITH IT!  Where is the crime in this young chap makin’ his fellow riders chuckle at his flatulence?

Finally, this kid is 15-years old and in Eighth Grade?  I guess it’s plausible but I was outta middle school at the ripe age of 13, what is a 15 year old doing in middle school???  Apparently he’s stinkin’ the joint up…