I know vandalism is bad, destructive and childish but this story makes me smile. In the face of a natural disaster someone was still spirited enough to have some fun and create a giant Gympie Penis.
Significant damage was reported yesterday from the Gympie Pines golf course. Image Craig Warhurst
Vandals strike during floods
www.gympietimes.com.au | Arthur Gorrie | 14th January 2011
WHILE most Gympie Region people chipped in cheerfully to help each other this week, a wave of deliberate damage showed the other side of human nature.
Furious Gympie Pines golf course owner Mike Towler yesterday offered a $1000 reward to anyone who can help catch the person responsible for seriously damaging one of the course’s greens.
The most interesting thing about this prank is that it happened twice, which seems as though it’s a grudge and not random. Alas, no photo available.
Aurora woman’s car slathered in barbecue sauce, pickles
Clifford Ward, Special to the Tribune | www.chicagotribune.com | July 7 2009
Revenge, according to the proverb, is a dish that is best served cold.
But apparently, it also can be served like a pulled pork sandwich.
That’s the speculation of an Aurora woman who found her car slathered
with barbecue sauce and pickles on consecutive nights.
On July 1, the 23-year-old victim, who was not identified by police,
discovered her 2001 Chevrolet Impala had been hit by a condiment
assault.
The woman cleaned her car and moved it to a different part of the
driveway, so it was nearer to the house and blocked from the street by
a family member’s car.
Around 3 a.m., she heard her dog barking. And the next morning, she
found a second helping of sauce and pickles covering her car.
The victim told police that she suspects the source of the tangy
harassment is a woman she had confronted because the woman was
interested in the victim’s boyfriend.
According to the report from the Kane County sheriff’s police, the
sauce and pickles didn’t hurt the car’s finish. The woman hosed them
off as police stood by.
Elmbrook administrators suspended six Brookfield East seniors this week after police ticketed them for erecting a swing set on the school’s roof.
Early Friday night, the superintendent and the prinicipal changed their minds and decided the students will get to participate in the graduation ceremony on Saturday in spite of their suspension.
Nate Hoaglund, Zachary Domach and Alexander Holiday are among the academic cream of the crop at Brookfield East, 12 News reporter Colleen Henry said.
“Out of the six of us we had ranks, 1, 2, 5, 10,” Domach said.
Originally the district told them and three of their friends they couldn’t participate in Saturday’s graduation because they were the masterminds of this year’s senior prank.
“We didn’t want anything that would disrupt education or cost the school district money — something that would just basically be harmful,” Domach said.
“We decided we would assemble a swing set on top of the school roof,” Holiday said.
The guys said their prank was designed to send their schoolmates a message.
Oh how I wonder what large obscene image these kids made.
Kapolei High School
Random shot of the school's marching band.
Prank Nixes Kapolei H.S. President From Graduation
7 Students Banned From Walking At Ceremony
June 4, 2009 | KITV.com
HONOLULU — A pre-graduation prank will mean no graduation ceremony for several Kapolei High School students, including the senior class president.
Police arrested five 17-year-olds and two 18-year-olds early Friday morning after seeing a car being driven recklessly on the Kapolei High School campus.
The students had painted a large obscene image on a walkway and glued some door locks, witnesses said.
Police charged the senior class president with trespassing and reckless driving.
The school banned the students from Friday night’s graduation ceremony. The class president was scheduled to speak at the ceremony, but has been replaced, officials said.
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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 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.
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.”
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
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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 coverhad to pay.
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.
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.
‘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.
