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.

Vandals appeared to take full advantage of the fact that police and many citizens were otherwise occupied dealing with a real crisis, according to Gympie Pines villa manager Harley Moss.

Graffiti erupted on walls from the CBD to One Mile, in addition to the more serious damage at the golf course.

“It costs $20,000 to build one of these greens and $2000 to $3000 to repair this sort of damage,” Mr Moss said, as he showed The Gympie Times the 5m scar on the green, dug out to form the outline of a penis.

Mr Towler said he was “pretty angry” that people would take advantage of disaster to hurt others.

“If someone needs $1000 and they know who did this, I hope they will go to the police.

“I’m offering the money to anyone who gives information to police leading to this person being convicted.

“People’s emotions are bound to be pretty raw at the moment and to do this sort of damage to people is absolutely woeful,” he said.

Graffiti tags have also appeared at the Quick N Easy Car and Dog Wash on the Bruce Highway, just north of the CBD.

The Lands Office building in Channon Street and numerous structures at One Mile sports fields were also targets for vandals this week.

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.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/food/chi-talk-condimentsjul07,0,1070821.story

Link to an older video that may or may nor work. This clip is from before their sentences were appealed.
Students Build Swing Set On Brookfield East Roof
Students Will Get To Participate In Graduation Ceremony
June 5, 2009  |  WISN.com

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.

“We picked it because it wasn’t harmful or anything, and it was also supposed to show people that you can do pranks without damaging property or hurting anyone,” Hoaglund said.

Early Wednesday morning, police found the teenagers on the school roof assembling the $230 swing set they bought for the occasion.

School administrators wanted to send their own message.

“Kids are kids. Rules are rules. You don’t make a separate set of rules for the top of the class. If anything, they have more responsibility to set a good example for the others,” Elmbrook School Superintendent Matt Gibson said.

The district suspended the six for three days, which had included graduation. Holiday was the class valedictorian.

“They just had to delete him from the program entirely,” Hoaglund said.

“What were you going to say in your speech?” Henry asked.

“I was going to talk about, well, I don’t think I can discuss that because there’s still a slight possibility that I might be able to use that,” Holiday said.

The boys’ parents appealed the decision, and the students offered alternatives, such as community service or janitorial work at the school.

“None of us thinks that our actions should go unpunished, but we would advocate for a punishment that suits the prank,” Holiday said.

The students have July court dates where they face $290 fines for prowling.

Copyright 2009 by WISN.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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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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.

After a five-day suspension and a recommendation by school administrators that the students not be allowed to participate in graduation ceremonies, Midland Valley parent and Aiken attorney Chuck Jones offered to represent the three students for appeals before the Area 3 advisory council.

“School administrators have a hard time as it is. I have total respect for them,” Mr. Jones said. “At the end of the year, they ran out of avenues to use for the punishment. These three kids had never had a blemish on their records.”

“I personally did not find it offensive,” he said. “I can see where some people would have thought there were other issues involved.”

Mr. Jones said he knew the school yearbook staff ran similar ads at least two years ago, and no students were punished.

The yearbook page looks like another advertisement page. The first letters of words and telephone numbers spell out secret messages. Watermarks on the page, which aren’t visible at first glance, also reveal messages.

The students did serve out their suspension, and they are being allowed to walk today at graduation, Mr. Jones said.

Upset parents, however, sent letters to Ms. Hickson asking that their privileges be revoked.

“Parents are upset because he’s (Mr. Videtto) supposed to be our valedictorian and he’s putting rude comments throughout this yearbook that we paid for,” parent Linda Briggs said. “This is not just his yearbook; it’s the school’s yearbook and it’s the class’s yearbook, and it didn’t have to be in there.”

Mrs. Briggs said many parents of students in the top 10 percent of the class asked that Mr. Videtto not be allowed to speak.

The principal and advisory council members did not return calls seeking comment, and yearbook adviser Katheleen Conyers did not respond to e-mails for comment.

Reach Julia Sellers at (706) 823-3424 or julia.sellers@augustachronicle.com.

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.”

“It’s disappointing, especially for other people who have family coming in from out of state, expecting a graduation ceremony,” Clark said.

Clark’s parents said they’re fine with the one day suspension, but said the entire punishment doesn’t fit the crime.

Beth, Clark’s mother said, “The suspension is fine, having to clean it up is fine, not going to senior party, possibly fine, but to not allow them to walk with the rest of their classmates like they’re some criminals unfit to be in the same room with them, it’s a little extreme.”

James’ parents appealed the suspension, but it was denied by the district superintendent, Craig Jefson. Jefson sent them a letter.

It read, in part: “James and the other students were aware that their behavior at this time could prompt their suspension from school and resulting loss of privilege to participate in the graduation ceremony, yet they participated in the disruption anyway. … I needed to consider the message to current and future students that disruption of the school environment cannot be acceptable in some situations and not others.”

“After all the hard work, we worked 12 years. We’ve been looking forward to this all year, and now it was just taken away from us — even after we cleaned it up that night,” Brittany Sands said.

wow

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.

Additional photo after the break

The girl holding the beer was not responsible for puttin this image in the yearbook.