An unconventional field trip in one Ontario city led to a scolding for two teachers on Thursday.
Just after 11 a.m., police in Guelph, Ont. received an odd call from two people who reported seeing someone lifting a manhole cover and crawling inside.
Officers and firefighters arrived on scene, prepared to rappel into the sewer system when two teachers from a nearby high school informed them that the figure who was seen lifting the manhole cover was one of their students.
The teachers explained that they had taken their class on a field trip exploring the stormwater management system when one student climbed up a storm drain, opened the manhole cover, and closed it.
The high school teachers were reprimanded for the field trip and told of the safety concerns of taking a class into the stormwater management system.