Complex sentence: Other versions involve punishments for being the first to make a noise: in an extreme version played in a Staten Island classroom, the boy who spoke first was pelted with textbooks so hard, his spleen was ruptured.
Split into simpler sentences: Other versions involve punishments for being the first to make a noise. In an extreme version played in a Staten Island classroom, the boy who spoke first was pelted with textbooks so hard, his spleen was ruptured.