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Student suspended for "ingenious" prank at football game
Darby High School fans held up squares of construction paper, thinking they were spelling out: "Go Darby." But from across the field, fans of the opposing team read the actual message: "We suck." (Watch the video.) The kid who masterminded the prank has been suspended. (Columbus Dispatch)
August 30, 2007 | Permalink
Comments
Sure, suspend one of your most brilliant students. Makes sense.
Posted by: Oxhead | Aug 30, 2007 8:08:27 AM
Bwahhhhahhahaaaaaa
Posted by: V | Aug 30, 2007 8:12:34 AM
Man, I'd love to have been one of the people involved in the stunt, even unwittingly.
Posted by: V | Aug 30, 2007 8:12:59 AM
I guess he can take solace in the fact that he's smarter than his principal. Oh well.
Posted by: SwarthyTroll | Aug 30, 2007 8:13:35 AM
I think that's hilarious. I'd give this kid some extra credit for working so hard.
The principal should be happy this kid had enough brains to coordinate a project like this. Most kids are too stupid to draw a grid. As Miss Teen South Carolina knows now, a fifth of Americans can't even locate the U.S. on a map.
Posted by: G-Man | Aug 30, 2007 8:18:56 AM
Man it sucks that he got suspended. That was a really funny prank that did not involve violence or anything seriously mean-spririted. Schools have way too much discretion in these cases.
Posted by: Allen | Aug 30, 2007 8:18:57 AM
That's about the first prank I've heard of that didn't involve senseless vandalism. Well done.
Posted by: hjhy | Aug 30, 2007 8:19:28 AM
The beauty of it is that even those who had the pieces of paper weren't in a position to figure out the prank before it was executed. Lovely!
And he's finishing HS a semester early to go pursue an engineering degree. Nice.
Posted by: V | Aug 30, 2007 8:21:48 AM
That kid's brilliant. A funny, yet pointed, yet harmless, prank.
Posted by: ken | Aug 30, 2007 8:22:15 AM
so he gets credit for a great prank and a few days off.
Posted by: boynamedsue | Aug 30, 2007 8:28:39 AM
The video seems to show a car window with "Davidson Sucks" written on it. Did/Would a Darby student be suspended for that?
Hmmm.
Is it a problem with "suck"? I mean, some people acutally get their panties in a bundle over that. What if he made it say 'We Stink"?
Posted by: stopeatingmysesamecake | Aug 30, 2007 8:29:41 AM
"Sure, suspend one of your most brilliant students. Makes sense."
Welcome to the new age of public education, Oxhead.
I thought it was a hilarious prank. Sounds like the school PTB's need to unclench.
Posted by: pnwgal | Aug 30, 2007 8:30:29 AM
Let's thank the administrators for bringing this prank to the public by issuing the suspenions.
While the article says there were only 3,400 views, I was just viewer number 6193.
My guess by this time tomorrow there will be 25,000 or more.
Posted by: Bill | Aug 30, 2007 8:34:40 AM
Good for the kid. This suspension is a badge of honor now.
I'm pretty sure that in a rivalry if you want to keep it sporting, you tip your hat when you've been beaten and try to come up with a plan for getting them back.
Posted by: Moose | Aug 30, 2007 8:36:29 AM
Gotta admit, its a good one. Too bad the administration has its underwear up the crack of their ass.
Posted by: Jim | Aug 30, 2007 8:38:26 AM
Great prank.
And I agree, that in this day and age, there are far worse things he could have done.
Posted by: sarah | Aug 30, 2007 8:43:25 AM
Things take a while to trickle down Ohioh, eh? This 'ingenous' prank has been done at least since the 1970s.
I hope he sues. The town needs to be taught a lesson about not allowing assholes administrators to run their schools.
Posted by: Sean, Torrington CT | Aug 30, 2007 8:51:31 AM
LOL -- great prank!
Posted by: Phranqlin | Aug 30, 2007 8:58:05 AM
Brilliant!
Not sure what the suspension will accomplish. It's like punishing good behavior, in light of all the things that pass for "pranks" these days.
Is it me, or are principles getting dumber?
Posted by: JB | Aug 30, 2007 9:11:32 AM
Nah, they were always pretty stupid.
Posted by: V | Aug 30, 2007 9:15:27 AM
Give this kid a scholarship for his organizational skills and great effort. suspends him?....the kid should be a community hero!....just think of what he COULD HAVE had spelled out!!!!!
Posted by: jimmyjohn | Aug 30, 2007 9:33:22 AM
Ohioh?
Posted by: Sheila | Aug 30, 2007 9:41:55 AM
I am very impressed with this young man's visual-spatial ability, logical reasoning, and expressive and receptive communication abilities. He will go far.
Posted by: Dr. Mary Pat Jordan | Aug 30, 2007 9:58:30 AM
Its not ingenious if it's been done before, he just repeted a prank he was aware of from a few years back.
I'd be much more impressed if he'd have dreamed this up himself. It does have a humor factor and no one was harmed in the process. So...good for him.
Posted by: cherie | Aug 30, 2007 10:08:36 AM
Naw, it's still pretty good.
Posted by: V | Aug 30, 2007 10:14:12 AM
