Archive | June, 2009

Valedictorian Spanked for Fake Yearbook Ads

30 Jun

At many schools there is great competition to be Valedictorian. One of the perps of this sophisticated and superior prank was the Valedictorian and I just bet there were people who were chomping at the bit to “narc on Mr Perfect.” Though allowed to march in graduation the 3 students were suspended for 5 days. I suspect that’s a meaningless punishment ‘cuz if they hung with the Valedictorian they probably got to exempt many of their final exams. This is not a breaking story but it is indeed notable.

YEARBOOK SUCKS is apparently watermarked in one ad. If you read the first letters of the umbreall ad you get BURN SCHOOL.

YEARBOOK SUCKS is apparently watermarked in one ad. If you read the first letters of the umbreall ad you get BURN SCHOOL.

Yearbook prank taints graduates
chronicle.augusta.com  |  By Julia Sellers, Staff Writer  |  June 06, 2008

A senior joke in the Midland Valley High School yearbook ended with three students suspended and a prank that will last forever.

When Midland Valley High yearbooks went home two weeks ago, senior portraits were in place, baby ads filled the back pages and local advertisers showed their support for the school.

But a page with false advertisements held secret messages saying “yearbook blows,” “I hate yearbook,” and “Hickson sux,” a reference to Principal Doris Hickson.

Past yearbook editors also ran silly fake ads, but this year’s prank didn’t get past administrators.

Yearbook editors Tiffany Redd and Josh Kucela and business editor Ashley Videtto were suspended for running the fake ads.

Ms. Redd said she didn’t want to speak about the suspension, and Mr. Kucela and Mr. Videtto did not return calls for comment.

Under Aiken County’s student code of conduct, suspended and expelled students can have privileges revoked, school attorney Bill Burkhalter said. Privileges include walking at graduation. There are no specific punishments for seniors or senior pranks.

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Florida Fisherman Catches Live Missile

29 Jun

This fisherman is very likable. I am so glad this story has a happy, safe, boring ending.

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A bomb squad from MacDill disarmed the 8-foot-long missile Rodney Salomon-Prudo brought to shore at Madeira Beach on Monday.

A bomb squad from MacDill disarmed the 8-foot-long missile Rodney Salomon-Prudo brought to shore at Madeira Beach on Monday.

Tribune photo by CHRIS URSO

Tribune photo by CHRIS URSO

Link to BBC video here.

Missiles lurk with fish
www.tampabay.com  |  By Jamal Thalji, Brant James and Emily Nipps, Times Staff Writers  |  Published Tuesday, June 9, 2009

MADEIRA BEACH — Rodney Salomon-Prudo ensnared a rusted supersonic AIM-9 Sidewinder heat-seeking missile while fishing in the Gulf of Mexico late last month.

The Air Force says that almost never happens, even though fighter jets test fire 300 missiles a year over the gulf.

In fact, Florida’s share of the Gulf of Mexico is a military test range. And Captain Salomon said he pulled two missiles off the sea floor during his two-week trip.

But he left the other missile behind — “brand new and still beeping,” the captain said — which perhaps was for the best.

After all, Tampa Bay barely handled the excitement of one missile turning up on its shores Monday, hauled in by a fisherman who had strapped it to his boat for 10 days in rolling seas, prompting a 500-foot evacuation around the Tom Stuart Causeway, a media circus and a military bomb squad’s visit.

But it was all for naught. At first authorities on Monday described the air-to-air missile as “live.” But Tuesday the Air Force said it was actually “inert,” the explosive warhead removed before it was test-fired.

MacDill Air Force Base officials did not return phone calls Tuesday to explain the discrepancy.

Imagine how disappointed its former owner was to hear that the missile had no explosives.

“I could have kept it as a souvenir,” Salomon said.

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Norwalk Bat Mitzvah Gets Out of Control

28 Jun

The mother of young lady for whom the event was thrown is quoted as saying “These kids are not the type to do oral sex.”

One wonders what type of kids, or people she imagines DO have oral sex. Perhaps that’s the best statement she could muster after her daughter’s special day turned into a out of control wreck and her husband was arrested and the mansion “trashed” on her dime.

Other news reports have oral sex occurring in several of the mansions bathrooms. Perhaps it wasn’t teens who were engaged in these activities?

The Mansion

The Mansion

Norwalk police clear bat mitzvah gone awry
Witness reports sexual activity, broken fixtures at mansion
By John Nickerson, Staff Writer  |  Posted: 06/15/2009

NORWALK — Police had to clear an “out of control” bat mitzvah party Saturday night at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum.

Brian Fischer, rental coordinator for the museum, told police the younger guests at the Jewish ceremony, which celebrates a girl’s coming of age, tore out ceiling tiles and a light fixture in the 141-year-old, 62-room mansion. Fischer said he saw several boys and girls engaging in oral sex in the bathrooms, Officer Carleton Giles said.

A Wilton man, reportedly intoxicated, was charged with resisting arrest.

After Fischer could not bring the party to order, he called police shortly after 11 p.m., Giles said.

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Seniors Punished Harshly for Chalk Prank

27 Jun

The administration at Arrowhead High School gets Miss Fidget’s “Tight Ass Jerk Water School Administration of the Year” Award in 2009.

Banned from graduation ceremony, students show up anyway and protest.

Banned from graduation ceremony, students show up anyway and protest.

Link to slide show that may or may not work.

9 Not Allowed To Attend Graduation Ceremony
Students Suspended For Senior Prank
www.wisn.com  |  June 8, 2009

HARTLAND, Wis. — A senior prank cost nine seniors from Arrowhead High School from walking in their graduation ceremony Sunday afternoon.

The nine seniors called the prank “harmless,” but school administrators said it still crossed the line.

The group used sidewalk chalk to write “Class of 09″ and some small designs on the school building Thursday night.

“In some ways I thought it was a pretty lame prank, you know, it looked more like a decoration,” says James Clark, one of the seniors who was suspended. “It just said ‘Class of ’09.’ And it had some pictures. Someone drew like a ‘Tweety’ bird or something.”

James says the chalk was up for two hours before they had to clean it up.

While the rest of the class prepared for their graduation ceremony on Sunday, the seniors held signs near the road — saying things like “They’re unfair, they don’t care,” and “We can’t walk, cuz we used chalk.”

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Middle Finger and Beer Make it in Yearbook

27 Jun

Some of the things I love about this story include that this is referred to as an “exclusive Chicago school” in some reports, but the kids drink PBR, and that the school spokesperson is Linda Blair.

PBR clearly visible

PBR clearly visible

Apparently the gang signs are ok, but the bird is bad.

Apparently the gang signs are ok, but the bird is bad.

Yearbook Photo of High School Student with Beer Sparks Controversy
www.wcsh6.com  |  Ken Christian, Information Center Content Manager  |  May 31, 2009

CHICAGO (NBC) — Someone slipped a beer into New Trier High School yearbook.

The snapshot included in the 4,000 copies of the exclusive Chicago school’s “Trevia” yearbook shows a photo of two students, one of whom has a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon in her hand.

“Clearly, the content of the picture and its inclusion in the yearbook are contrary to our principles and values as a school community. Administrators are investigating how and why the inappropriate picture was included, and we will take appropriate disciplinary action when we find the responsible individuals,” said Superintendent Lina Yonke of the New Trier Township High School District.

School spokeswoman Laura Blair told the Chicago Tribune that the photo was not in the yearbook when the adviser cleared it for publication, indicating someone sneaked it in afterwards.

Blair says “it’s clearly defiant and subversive and intentional.”

Possible consequences for the students involved could range from a school suspension to charges of underage possession of alcohol.

Additional photo after the break

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Senior Prank Gone Bad-Student Critically Injured

26 Jun

Oh crap, oh crap, this is awful, so very terrible. It would have been a great prank but it’s a horrible tragedy. Head and spine injuries are so spooky and terrible. What appears to be a beer funnel is visible in the last photo.

I can’t help but think about Mark Zupan, world class para-athlete, from the movie MURDERBALL who was also injured in a pick up truck accident while whooping it up with friends. Speedy recovery and best wishes to the injured student. I’ve poked around to find an update on his health to no avail. To the rest of the boys, good luck.

Alec William Esoda, 18, faces charges.

Alec William Esoda, 18, faces charges.

About 30 students moved this sailboat at Leesville Road High School Friday, May 28, 2009. When they left, a pickup carrying approximately nine students overturned, critically injuring Ian Anthony Bunn, 17, (Photo by the Raleigh Police Department Crash Reconstruction Unit)

About 30 students moved this sailboat at Leesville Road High School Friday, May 28, 2009. When they left, a pickup carrying approximately nine students overturned, critically injuring Ian Anthony Bunn, 17, (Photo by the Raleigh Police Department Crash Reconstruction Unit)

Ian Anthony Bunn, 17, was in critical condition at Rex Hospital after a pickup truck he was riding in overturned on O’Neal Road in front of Leesville High School Friday, May 28, 2009, according to Raleigh police. (Photo by the Raleigh Police Department Crash Reconstruction Unit)

Ian Anthony Bunn, 17, was in critical condition at Rex Hospital after a pickup truck he was riding in overturned on O’Neal Road in front of Leesville High School Friday, May 28, 2009, according to Raleigh police. (Photo by the Raleigh Police Department Crash Reconstruction Unit)

Report: Students drank before prank, didn’t report wreck
Posted: May. 31, 2009 Updated: Jun. 1, 2009  |      Web Editor: Anne Johnson  |  www.wral.com/

Raleigh, N.C. — Masked students doing a prank involving a boat didn’t report a wreck that hospitalized one student, and investigators found evidence that at least some students drank at Leesville High School before the Friday incident, according to a police report.

A Crash Reconstruction Unit report obtained by WRAL News details events surrounding the wreck, in which Ian Anthony Bunn, 17, suffered massive head trauma. He was in critical condition at Rex Hospital on Lake Boone Trail late Sunday.

About 30 Leesville High students and alumni met at O’Neal Road around 12:30 a.m. to do a prank at the nearby school, the report says. They wore masks to conceal their identities, and police later found evidence that some had been drinking beer in a school parking lot beforehand.

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Students Rally Round Suspended Pranksters

25 Jun

Nice simple prank, seniors sneak over a wall and set up camp in the middle of the school’s courtyard. The administration took a very hard line and doled out 5 day suspensions, not only from school but from school related activities like banquet and awards ceremonies. Not only did the school crack down on the camping pranksters (many of whom were National Honor Society Members) they also punished kids who tipped off the local media on school computers.

The spunky student body wasn’t pleased and exercised their rights to  peaceful demonstration and IT WORKED! The punishment was whittled down. Congrats to you wonderful kids-great team work.

 


Jessica Corvino, senior, and Addie Kirsch, senior, lead a line up a student protesters in front of Southern Lehigh High School. Students held a protest Friday in response to fellow students who were suspended after a senior prank earlier this week. (Emily Robson / The Morning Call / June 5, 2009)

Southern Lehigh High School students cry foul over crackdown on campers and those who tipped media
17 suspended for campus prank
By Marion Callahan and Andrew McGill  |  June 4, 2009  |  themorningcall.com

Outraged that their friends were suspended for five days over an end-of-year prank, two Southern Lehigh High School seniors sent an e-mail to The Morning Call accusing administrators of grossly overreacting.

Next thing they knew, they were suspended for five days, too.

On Wednesday night, the Southern Lehigh School Board held an emergency executive session to discuss the suspensions. But after meeting behind closed doors for two hours, the directors would not say what, if anything, they had decided.

District solicitor James Bartholomew declined to comment, saying this is a disciplinary matter.

The meeting was held hours after school board President Elizabeth Stelts described the decision to suspend the e-mailers as ”very harsh.”

The two students, whose names are being withheld by The Morning Call, were upset that 17 seniors were punished for camping in the school courtyard Monday night. They alerted the newspaper Tuesday afternoon in an e-mail titled ”Free the Campers.”

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High School Prank Gathers 75 Gnomes

24 Jun

This is a nice, simple, sweet classic prank that’s very well done. 75 is an enormous number of gnomes. The gnomes are currently stored in the impound lot, how sweet. Anyone in the area want a gnome?

Some gnomes.

Some gnomes.

Even MORE gnomes.

Even MORE gnomes.

Prank turns school into gnome man’s land
By Peter Mucha  |  Inquirer Staff Writer  |  Jun. 12, 2009

Make gnome mistake, it was an elfish act.

An impudent violation of lawn order.

But so far no one has pressed charges – or even come forward to confess to owning a garden gnome and wanting it back.

Yesterday at 8 a.m., the Ocean City Police “received a report of criminal mischief” at Ocean City High School, according a department news release.

“The investigation revealed that unknown persons had placed approximately 75 garden decorations (gnomes) in the landscape surrounding the high school building.”

The brightly colored gathering – it’s called a donsy when it comes to gnome – included twins, a woman holding a bunny, one severed head, a dude beneath a toadstool, assorted males with beards and pointy caps, and dozens of others difficult to identify in police photographs because of varying toppled conditions.

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F-Word Hidden in FL Yearbook Captions

23 Jun

Read what the school officials have to say about the perp of this prank- A deception, a disappointment! They would have NEVER suspected the young lady who did this. $95 is pretty cheap as far as punishment goes. However, it’s $95 more than the male perp who put “f#ck all yall” on the year book cover had to pay.

Random Fort Walton Beach Item

Random Fort Walton Beach Item

‘F word’ yearbook joke backfires at FWB High
www.nwfdailynews.com  |  May 26, 2009  |  Robbyn Brooks

When many seniors opened their Fort Walton Beach High School yearbooks this week, they flipped right past page 60 without a second glance.

But the obscene word hidden at the bottom of the page didn’t go unnoticed for long.

“I missed it the first time, too,” said Principal Charlene Couvillon.

As soon as the unseemly term was discovered, yearbook distribution halted.

An editor on the yearbook staff had hidden the “F word” in captions at the bottom of the page. Each of the first letters of the captions was placed in bold red and spelled the word out over four photos.

“If I had to write out a list of kids who might do this, I would have never included her name,” Couvillon said of the student.

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Student Designed Yearbook Cover Has Hidden Message

22 Jun

I am very proud of this kid. First, it’s a nice illustration and people just don’t use illustrations as much as they should. Second, it’s a MAJOR coup to sneak a dirty word onto the cover of a publication and get it printed. Third, he still got his diploma, so he got away with the prank. My hat is off to you kid!

In the graphic design world, sneaking in dirty stuff often happens when people get burned by a client and/or are moving on. I’ve seen a newspaper ad for a sporting goods store that read “you’ll ski like a faggot in these boots.” Then there’s the illustrator who was tired of his slow to pay aerosol packaging client. When he turned in his final illustration of lush tropical florals in bright pinks and oranges for an air freshner he clipped a penis out of a porno mag and stuck it in the middle of a hibicus and the cans were printed, with the penis flower.

I also love the phrase the kid chose.


Use your imagaination about whats been blurred out.

It's been blurred but reads "Fuck all yall"

Link to a video that may or may not work.

‘F’ word found on Yearbook cover
UPI  |  June 15, 2009

An Ohio high school principal said yearbook distribution has been suspended because “an obscenity was cleverly concealed in the cover artwork.”

Shaker Heights High School Principal Michael Griffith wrote in a letter to students and parents that the cover of the yearbook, which featured a gathering of the school’s “Red Raider” mascots, also contained a farewell message featuring the “F” word, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported Monday.

Griffith wrote that “cosmetic surgery” is being performed on the books to block out the offending phrase and offered to remove the phrase from any previously sold copies.

However, the students of the school did not seem perturbed by the “farewell message” — the artist, who wrote a letter of apology that was affixed to the principal’s letter, received the loudest and longest ovation at his Thursday graduation ceremony, the Plain Dealer said.

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Escaped Prairie Dogs Returned to Zoo

21 Jun

$500,000 ha ha ha. FIVE hundred thousand DOLLARS, ha ha ha. Of course only a zoo on EAST of the Mississippi River would pay that much for a prairie dog exhibit. Out west the fur balls are VERY common and loathed by anyone who loves hoofed animals. Why? A prairie dog hole is almost the perfect size to trap and break a horse or steers leg which means the hoofed animal will have to be put down.

Photo courtesy of the Baltimore Zoo Prairie dogs are fun to watch as they play, squabble, groom and bark with others in their colony, said Karl Kranz, executive vice president for animal programs and chief operating officer at the zoo.

Photo courtesy of the Baltimore Zoo "Prairie dogs are fun to watch as they play, squabble, groom and bark with others in their colony," said Karl Kranz, executive vice president for animal programs and chief operating officer at the zoo.

Image from ABC2

Image from ABC2

Prairie dogs return to Md. Zoo
Keepers scramble as animals try to escape
By Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun reporter  |  June 12, 2009  |  baltimoresun.com

It took just 10 minutes for a dozen prairie dogs to outwit the creators of the Maryland Zoo’s new $500,000 habitat.

Aircraft wire, poured concrete and slick plastic walls proved no match for the fast-footed rodents, the stars of a new exhibit that opens today.

As officials were promoting the return of the zoo’s 28 prairie dogs – their former digs had been out of sight in a closed section of the animal preserve for more than four years – some of the critters found ways to jump, climb and get over the walls of their prairie paradise, a centerpiece exhibit just inside the zoo’s main entrance.

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World’s most ancient race traced in DNA study

20 Jun

Creationists may also be interested in this information.

One of the San people of South Africa.

One of the San people of South Africa.

World’s most ancient race traced in DNA study
www.independent.co.uk  |  By Steve Connor, Science Editor  |  Friday, 1 May 2009

The San people of southern Africa, who have lived as hunter-gatherers for thousands of years, are likely to be the oldest population of humans on Earth, according to the biggest and most detailed analysis of African DNA. The San, also known as bushmen, are directly descended from the original population of early human ancestors who gave rise to all other groups of Africans and, eventually, to the people who left the continent to populate other parts of the world.

A study of 121 distinct populations of modern-day Africans has found that they are all descended from 14 ancestral populations and that the differences and similarities of their genes closely follows the differences and similarities of their spoken languages.

The scientists analysed the genetic variation within the DNA of more than 3,000 Africans and found that the San were among the most genetically diverse group, indicating that they are probably the oldest continuous population of humans on the continent – and on Earth.

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