Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Prankster suspended after duping foes

High School pranks can be funny, but often times somebody has to pay the price if they get caught.
I remember when the seniors at one Chattanooga area school decided to cut the goal posts off at the ground.
Ouch.
If one of the kids who was involved hadn't been the son of a machine shop owner that would have really cost somebody.
I know somebody who once took a reef and placed it at the front door of a local high school with a note about how the opposition was going to bury them.
Sadly the opposition did.
A Soddy-Daisy wrestler suprised the crowd at the Red Bank/Soddy-Daisy football game a couple of years ago. He dashed out of the crowd and through the band on the field at Red Bank wearing nothing but shoes and a smile. He ran across the field and climbed the fence and through the woods he ran where he was picked up by his friend.
But the best one I have heard recently happened last week in Hilliard, Ohio.
A high school student was suspended for tricking football fans from a crosstown rival into holding up signs that together spelled out, ``We Suck.''
The Hilliard Davidson High School student from suburban Columbus said he spent more than 20 hours over three days plotting the trick.
He even captured the prank on video and posted on the video-sharing Web site YouTube. He said he was inspired by a similar prank pulled by Yale students in 2004, when Harvard fans were duped into holding up cards with the same message. At the end of the video he thanks the 800 Hilliard Darby High School supporters who raised the cards at the start of the third quarter during last Friday's football game.
``It couldn't have been done without you,'' reads the closing frame of the video.
The prankster created a grid to plan how the message would be spelled out once fans in three sections held up either a black or white piece of construction paper. Directions left on stadium seats instructed fans to check that the number listed on their papers matched their seat numbers. Darby supporters were told the message would read ``Go Darby.''
The Davidson principal gave the culprit and two students who helped him three days of in-school suspension and banned them from extracurricular activities for a semester, the students said.
The Associated Press contributed to this post

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