A prank played by a Nanaimo student on his friend which triggered their schools sprinkler system has resulted in the boy and his parents being ordered to pay $48,000 in damages.

On Jan. 17, 2012, Carson Dean, then a 14-year-old student attending Wellington Secondary School, decided to play a prank on his friend Ben Daniel during the lunch break.

Carson took his friends padlock and tried to attach it to the sprinkler head in the ceiling of one of the schools hallways.

Unfortunately the prank led to the schools entire sprinkler system being activated, causing extensive water damage in the school.

During the incident, the fire alarm went off and the entire school was evacuated. Carson went to the assembly area and confessed his involvement to a teacher.

The school district sued the boy and his parents, Cheryl and Kevin Dean, arguing that the boy was negligent and should have to pay for the water damage, which amounted to $48,000.

At trial, the parents argued that their son was not negligent and that the School Act does not impose liability unless the student intended to cause damage, which wasnt the case.

They also argued that their son was a normal, rambunctious and impulsive 14-year-old boy who wouldnt know how a sprinkler head was activated and would not have understood the risks.

But in a ruling released Thursday, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick that while a school assumes care of a child dropped off at the school, the school also sets out certain behaviours expected of a child.

In the case of Carson, he was well aware of the ability to play with things and break them and also knew that he wasnt supposed to be attaching his friends padlock anywhere he wanted, said the judge.

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A 36-year-old Tingalpa man will front court on an array of drug offences on Thursday afternoon, following the discovery of a clandestine laboratory in South Brisbane in the early hours of the morning.

A sprinkler system alerted to police to the alleged drug production set-up shortly after midnight.

Emergency services were called to the Edmonstone Street unit complex following the activation of the alarm about 12.30am.

Police will allege the remains of a chemical laboratory were found after they were cleared to enter the complex.

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The scene suffered extensive water and chemical residue damage but was forensically examined by the Illicit Laboratory Investigation Team.

Police later raided a home in Hanley Street, Tingalpa, where a number people were arrested.

The 36-year-old Tingalpa man has been charged with producing dangerous drugs and five counts of possession of illicit drugs and drug production paraphernalia.

He is due to appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court Thursday afternoon.

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A man has been charged after police stumbled upon a secret drug laboratory in South Brisbane.

The 36-year-old Tingalpa man is facing seven charges, including producing and possessing dangerous drugs, and possessing drug-making utensils.

He's also been charged in relation to an unauthorised stash of bullets.

Emergency services discovered a clandestine drug laboratory in an Edmonstone Street unit complex after an alarm set the sprinkler system off about 12.30am on Thursday

Police say several rooms were extensively damaged from water and chemical residue.

Several men fled the scene and detectives later went to a property in Tingalpa, in Brisbane's east.

Police have not confirmed how many people are being questioned over the incident, but a man is scheduled to appear before the Brisbane Magistrates' Court on Thursday afternoon.

Investigations are continuing.

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A sleeve joining two 4-inch pipes burst on the fourth floor, sending water down the staircase and soaking files on lower floors for the county Clerk of Courts and Prosecutor's offices and 11th District Court of Appeals.

Scanners and a computer being used to scan county Probate Court records were not damaged. Probate Judge Thomas Swift said he intends to move the equipment to the Stone Building when room there is available.

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Swift said all probate archives are being digitized to go on-line and old docket books will be sent to storage facilities in Pennsylvania caves.

''We moved once before when the roof was leaking,'' Swift said. ''This was a work in progress.''

County Commissioner Frank Fuda said the county's print shop on the basement floor remained dry with no damage after Sunday's episode. Also, no records held by the Recorder's Office were damaged.

''Of 3,000 boxes (of court files), about 450 were damaged and will have to be freeze-dried or chamber dried before they are moved,'' said Lynn Wallace-Smith, the record manager for non-probate court records and other records in the Recorder's Office

She said all 3,000 boxes were ready to be moved to the former First Place Bank building that the county bought last year, but space at the bank building was not prepared yet. File boxes were still being moved Monday.

Gary Hetzel with the Prosecutor's Office was removing case files from outdated criminal cases, some of them from death row inmates who had been executed.

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