What goes on in a Boy's Home

My father told me this funny story about the Boy's Home some time back. he said it was something that some one else had told him.

At the Boy's Home (this place where the courts put delinquent boys whom their parents are unable to control), the inmates do woodwork. So they use turpentine as thinner for the paint, since turpentine is a spirit, it contains alchohol. So, in order to make liquour (to drink, of course), they buy hack's sweets and dissolve it in the turpentine so as to give it a flavour.

However, this is dangerous as turpentine is poisonous (or at least not beneficial to one's health).