Senior Prank Runs Afoul

Sub-title: The post where I use as many awful chicken-related puns and wordplays as possible

I bet the administrators at Harrison were clucking mad earlier this week when they discovered a battery of chickens walking through the hallways. As they planned to fly the coup of their high school, 9 seniors decided to release the sixteen chickens overnight. The chickens walked the hallways of Harrison and showed their school spirit by staining the carpet. What an eggcellent prank!

Sadly, the prank went afoul. The EVSC doesn’t have much of a sense of humor (or are they just too chicken to admit they do?) and have withheld the kids’ diplomas until they pay to replace the carpet where the chickens inhabited. I’ve also heard that one of the kids won’t be able to run in the state track meet next week because of the prank. I guess he really laid an egg in the EVSC’s eyes.

One of the kids checked in over at the Courier:

I am one of the seniors involved in this prank. We have been charged with a misdemeanor for criminal mischief. We just thought it woud be an amusing end to our senior year………and it was AWESOME! Oh, and for the record, all nine of us graduated with honors and distinction.

Criminal charges? Seriously? We’re doomed as a society if a senior prank is now grounds for getting a record. When I graduated from Day School, we stacked every chair in our commons at the entrance so no one could get in the building and took down all of the college pennants that adorned the walls. If the stiffs at Day School can take a prank, Harrison and the EVSC should certainly be able to.

Face it. It was a funny clucking prank. Make the kids pay to clean the soiled carpets, drop the charges and let the kid run the track meet. It’s Evansville salutes you, Harrison seniors, as you put this final feather in your high school cap!

photo courtesy of Darin Barry