Take top poster and pass to the left.
Following those instructions, hundreds of Hilliard Darby High School football fans fell into an elaborate prank on Friday night.
When they stood up during a football game against cross-town rival Hilliard Davidson High School and held up squares of construction paper, they thought they were spelling out: “Go Darby.”
But from across the field, Davidson fans read the actual message:
“We suck.”
Hilliard Davidson senior Kyle Garchar masterminded the trick at Crew Stadium and suffered an in-school suspension for it.
Stolen or not, still a great prank. Worth 3 days of ISS IMHO.
Many senior pranks have become either unoriginal, destructive, or a despicable act upon others. This was smart, harmless, and easy to laugh at no matter which side you were on. If I had held up the placards in that show, I’d have felt stupid but at least would have had to say “it was a good gag.”
The ISS was required, though. As a school administrator, I’d have congratulated him on the execution and suspended him as well.
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I second that, today’s kids idea of a prank usually involve vandalism mixed with injury and/or rape.
#5 I bet it was! LOL!
The US is getting too anal.
Cheers
ISS was great! I was one of those boring-ass gifted/talented students. The first time I got ISS, it was for kicking somebody’s ass – well, not really bad, but I did shove the kid into a 55 gallon trash can full of lunch trash.
Anyway, I met some of the most interesting people in ISS and detention. Picked up a few hotties here and there, got some great weed connections, met the kids that could drive. Yep, I became a much more interesting person. I actually got into trouble a little more often, just to get ISS and meet other kids. It wasn’t as if my learning halted; oh indeed new vistas dawned for me.
The nice part about it is, I got many of these kids to open up and talk about what was making them so wound up. Some of them ended up straightening out and going to college, albeit not necessarily because of me. Some of them ended up dead from drug overdose, suicide, or the sad tale of two friends who got drunk and one killed the other in a drunken argument fight.
I think ISS and detention should be mandatory, and every teacher should have to do some time in there, too.
I don’t think it is “political correctness” as such, but rather the totalitarian mindset of school administrators. I would suggest that the kid call the ACLU and sue the bastards, but after the ‘Bong Hits For Jesus’ case, it is clear that our public schools are free to be islands of tyranny, turning every non-conformist act into a crime.
Fortunately, this just teaches kids to distrust and despise authority, an all-American value if there ever was one.
kidos to this kid. he will have quite a story to tell his grandkids.
C’mon, this was a good prank. I do believe that the administrators can not let this pass though and therefore came up with a mild form of punishment.
The student won’t be scarred for life, won’t have his education disrupted, the administration can say they did something, and life will go on.
In-school suspension = detention? A kind of study hall?
Prank should be applauded for brilliance, having been carried out without anyone really realizing the outcome. A slap on the wrist away from other students.
And the coaching staff should work more diligently to improve the team, rather than moronically (I’m assuming) cheerleading the suspension demand front and center.
Fusion’s got it right. The school can’t completely ignore it but it was a harmless joke. Wish I’d been there to see it.